If it’s so inappropriate, why are so many of you commenting? The only time I worry about tire pressure is if the bell goes off or my tire is flat. Then I investigate and take it to the tire shop.
But to the rest of it. Thank you for not voting or wasting your vote. If you read about the struggle in Europe over popularism and divine monarchy, you will understand what the founders actually created which was totally new.
Then if you read about the civil war and the desperation to save the union as a shining example to Europe, you will understand what a great accomplishment it was.
Then if you study what the elites would like to turn this country into similar to divine monarchy, and still vote for Mickey Mouse, I spit on the ground. Only 30% of the population would be willing to fight for their country. The rest will benefit or not no thanks to the apathetic.
So check your air and stay home if you want. Go ahead and flag or delete this whole ridiculous discussion.
Is the type of habit I’m encouraging others to change. It’s typical reactionary response to a problem. Why wait until a minor issue becomes a big mess? Reactionism is so last century lol!
Monthly or bi-weekly tire pressure checks, via the dash info or preferably with a gauge, would prevent a small problem from becoming a strand - either in your driveway or cross-country.
… and your reiteration of the exact same obsession–which all of the forum regulars have read time, and time, and time again–has now earned you a spot on my very short “ignore” list.
Because you don’t know if you have a nail in the tire until you begin to lose air. Did I miss something. Inspect tires for nails before leaking? I had a trailer tire that would lose 10# a year. Then I discovered a nail on close inspection. A little tiny nail. Sheesh. Give it a rest.
I did not read through all of this thread. But I saw the OP and said to myself “please, everyone, just don’t respond.” I would have said that in a response, but then it would have been a response, so now … oops. Just stop. The beginning post was just dumb and not worthy of attention.
Nevada I was just about as stymied by that chart as any other person of reasonable intelligence. It’s supposed to indicate how much pressure tires will lose below a base temperature of 70F.
Instead, it suggested people inflate their tires as much as 7psi over door placard depending on how far below 70F the ambient temps dropped. What a clusterphuque!
Umm, does yours not say to add as much as +9 psi over the place card?? So yours adds even more psi, +2 more @ -20F… They look to be the same down to 0F then your chart keeps adding more pressure to the tires…
The way the table is supposed to work, and by the way it’s aa1car’s, not mine, is that it assumes recommended cold tire pressure is set at a base temperature, in this case, 70F.
If you look down the right hand column, it simply shows how many psi to add to get the pressure back to that recommended value.
EG: My car’s recommended is 32psi, which I set during a time of year with 70F avg base temperature. If, for example, I wait until the ambient temperature is 40F, and my cold tire pressures have dropped to approx. 29psi. So I follow the line from 40F across to the right, where it says ‘+3’.
That simply means to add 3psi (29 + 3) to bring my cars tires back up to that cold 32psi spec.
The chart is for cold weather pressure compensation when inflating tires at shop temperature.
Most shops are heated, 70 F is a good baseline for temperature, use the inflation pressure that corresponds with outside morning temperature.
People have been known to “panic” when a shop inflates tires to something other than what is shown on the vehicle’s tire inflation placard without understanding why.
There’s a difference between sending a car out of a shop with a ‘compensated’ pressure of +2 to 3psi, vs hamfisting them up to 40 or 45psi.
If someone’s Porsche, door placard Front 34psi, Rear 43 left my shop at 2:30pm, it would leave there with 36 front and 45 rear. Not a blanket 40 or some other such jaberwocky.
The reason customers panic is because either they weren’t taught about expansion of gases with temperature, or they learned but didn’t retain such knowledge past the toss of the mortar board.
Just because it’s another used car dealer’s election is no reason to sit it out if that is your intention. Almost every presidential election since I started voting in 1972 had two very flawed candidates. I picked one anyway. I plan to do the same in a few weeks. I hope that you will too.
