Skip to main content
Gerry | Vanagon
Checking account...
← vanagon.com home · Continue the discussion in the forum
Subject:Re: Nytrogen and tires
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:46:13 -0400

At 11:19 PM 10/17/2015, Angus Gordon wrote:
>I have experience with nitrogen filled tires on aircraft and can
>tell you that it certainly doesn't negate pressure changes with
>temperature. That's still something we deal with. I don't see any
>real value in using nitrogen in car tires.

I believe pressure change as a percentage per degree will be
essentially the same no matter what gas or combination of gases is
used to fill a tire.  It amounts to roughly one psi per ten degrees
Fahrenheit for tires at ordinary pressures and temperatures.

Yrs,
d