Nick1234 Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 Is this worth it? Anyone have any experience with it? Quote
Night Fury Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 Uhh, no. Air is made up of like 95% nitrogen anyways!! Quote
AL Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 Yah, its a complete scam for you to pay more money... Quote
AL Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 The shop I worked in this summer had a special for putting nitrogen in your tires and some wanted it and some didnt and we used the same airhose for every tire Quote
RobertISaar Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 Uhh, no. Air is made up of like 95% nitrogen anyways!! close, but effort is noted. "Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases." Quote
Regal_GS_1989 Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 Not worth it whatsoever. The claims that it increases the life of your tires, or increases your Fuel economy isn't quite at face value. It doesn't increase the life, nor your fuel economy, but rather is supposed to slow the amount of air that escapes due to expansion and contraction, so that people who never check their tires can go much longer before they become under inflated. It's a gimmick to make people believe that it is Maintenance free. Quote
MonteCarloChick Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 I giggle at the people with the little green rings on their valve stems. It's pointless. Quote
94 olds vert Posted October 20, 2009 Report Posted October 20, 2009 I fill my tires up every other day...so not worth it Quote
95 vert Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 It's supposed to keep tire pressures constant in all temperatures. At work, we have a machine that converts the air in the tires to Nitrogen. It was done to all the vehicles sitting on the lot and we have not had to "top off" any new car tires for months now.(Approx 300 cars) So, I'm going to say it works. The fuel and tire wear claims are just from the tires having the "correct" pressure as opposed to air which expands and contracts with temperature changes. Quote
3pt1lumina Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 I fill my tires up every other day...so not worth it Me too Quote
MonteCarloChick Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 wtf... I've never touched the pressure on my tires Quote
RobertISaar Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 wtf... I've never touched the pressure on my tires lucky... i check them about once a week, and have to add or drop pressure about every other week... Quote
MonteCarloChick Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 I'd kill myself if I had to do that. My mother's old LeSabre had tire issues. UGH Quote
1990lumina Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 It does work but to someone who isn't a complete retard it's not worth it. The rule is 1 psi for every 10 degrees of temperature change either higher or lower. Right now I've been adding normally 6psi to every customers tires that come in the shop to get them back to where they should be since it's been colder outside lately. All summer pressures were fine. Nitrogen does work but it's still s scam for people that aren't fuckin retarded. Quote
Regal_GS_1989 Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 wtf... I've never touched the pressure on my tires I'll check my tires every once in a while in the summer, (usually before going on a longer than normal drive) and occasionally, i might need to top one or two off, but generally speaking, they stay consistently at 36 PSI. As for my winter tires...I tend to play with those one a little bit more. Once it turns pretty cold, i'll set the pressure, then on the occasional nice day, i'll check them to make sure they are still good, but even at that, my tires have never been lower than 30 psi in the winter unless i had some kind of leak. The one thing I have found on our vechicles is that the ones that run winter tires have never had any kind of pressure issues in the cold, where as the ones that have had all seasons have generally needed a top up after a cold spell. I'm not sure though if that has to do with the tires becoming rock hard and slowly leaking, or more so with the fact that the winters are on steelies and the all seasons were on alloys. Quote
Galaxie500XL Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 Most people would be far better off making sure the tire place cleaned the bead of the wheel before installing the tire. Most new tire leaks come from nasty mating surfaces...and nitrogen won't do much to fix that... Quote
Venom Posted October 21, 2009 Report Posted October 21, 2009 Most people would be far better off making sure the tire place cleaned the bead of the wheel before installing the tire. Most new tire leaks come from nasty mating surfaces...and nitrogen won't do much to fix that... x 1 million. Pretty much every aluminum/alloy/non steel rims I do need cleaned with my purple scotchbrite disc due to corrosion and 1 out of every tire repair I see is due to a leaky bead. Quote
mfewtrail Posted October 22, 2009 Report Posted October 22, 2009 It does work but to someone who isn't a complete retard it's not worth it. Totally agree. I check the air pressure in my personal vehicles very often. It only makes sense to keep an eye on tire pressure as it can potentially save you some gas money, extend your tire life a bit, and keep you from having other problems. Besides all of that, it literally takes only one minute to check all of the tires... Quote
94 olds vert Posted October 24, 2009 Report Posted October 24, 2009 It does work but to someone who isn't a complete retard it's not worth it. Totally agree. I check the air pressure in my personal vehicles very often. It only makes sense to keep an eye on tire pressure as it can potentially save you some gas money, extend your tire life a bit, and keep you from having other problems. Besides all of that, it literally takes only one minute to check all of the tires... I completely agree Quote
Crazy K Posted October 24, 2009 Report Posted October 24, 2009 Uhh, no. Air is made up of like 95% nitrogen anyways!! close, but effort is noted. "Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.038% carbon dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases." time to chime in! If nitrogen actually works and doesn't leak, then if your tires loose pressure with regular air, then the maximum amount they could loose would be 21.92%! I think the best thing I did was tire shine the inside of some tires I was having mounted before installation, to help reduce dry rot from the inside... Quote
CSI_MuNkY Posted October 24, 2009 Report Posted October 24, 2009 If nitrogen actually works and doesn't leak, then if your tires loose pressure with regular air, then the maximum amount they could loose would be 21.92%! And then when you top them off, they will only lose 21.92% of that! which is only 4.8% of the whole volume! And so on Jamie Quote
95 vert Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 Although nitrogen molecules are larger than air molecules, if you have a leak, other than slowing it down slightly, nitrogen is not going to "fix" the leak. It is not affected by temperature changes. Driving down the highway will raise tire pressure by 3-5 lbs. Nitrogen is for "consistent" tire pressures. Alot of the people here check their tires on a regular basis. Most people do not. The amount of people who come in for low tires who have purchased cars or the nitrofill service from where I work has dropped dramatically. I have yet to see a nitrofilled car needing the tires topped off. Most people don't know how to check their tires or don't care to know. Nitrogen saves alot of time for me now that I don't have to top off peoples tires near as much as I used to so I can get other, paying, work done. It does work. Just make sure you're actually getting the service instead of "air from the same hose" like mentioned before in this thread. Quote
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