Opposed to some 30 year old who read something on a hypermiling forum? Also did you forget about the whole thing where I mentioned MY personal experience? Or did you just skim like most other posters here and just posted your belief about a given poster after said skimming?Originally posted by: PhoKingGuy
Its because I believe something a trained engineer says over what some 15 year old like you read on some hypermiling forum. You can do whatever the hell you want as far as we're concerned, you just need to admit you have no actual real world experience with these things and you're just regurgitating them.
Also, you aren't exactly reading what some "trained engineer" said because if you did, I'm pretty sure you'd hear a lot more than "overinflation and underinflation = more tire wear" and "inflate your tires to what your door jam says".. If anything that sounds like what the marketing team interpreted FROM the engineers...Kinda like what you'all been doing with me today! If anything what I've been saying is what you'd hear from an engineer. Engineers have facts and data to back up their conclusions, change a variable get a different conclusion. Marketing teams on the other hand are just taking a single conclusion from a single series of variables and spitting it out into a form that the masses (like you people) can understand and then regurgitate to others.
I on the other hand already understand most of the variables engineers have to work with, so I changed a few of them, and have come out with my own generalized conclusion that can be regurgitated to the masses. Want to hear it? Too bad, you get to anyway: "Inflate your tires to sidewall listed on the tire, if you've got a pickup, take 10psi off the sidewall rating from the rear tires if it's unloaded. If you find that your tires are wearing down the center, remove 2 psi from the tires incrementally until you find that your tires wear perfectly evenly."