Nitrogen in tires

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I didn't want to (further) muddy the other thread, but I did want to talk about nitrogen in tires.

Anyone here think it's a good idea? My position is that air is 80% nitrogen already. Good enough.

I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts, especially if they think pure nitrogen in their tires is a good idea.

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[jasonstang]

Won't make a huge difference. Air except nitrogen will slowly leak out of the tires overtime anyway so you end up with mostly nitrogen.

 

[WildHorse]

Zero moisture and consistent temps with nitrogen. Great for road course (temps) & steel wheels (corrosion). Street.. meh. I have a air drier on my compressor.

 

[Zitrosounds]

Waste.

 

[FP350S]

IMO it is a purely a means for dealers to drive customers back to the service dept. and a new gen automotive snake oil.

 

[Grimace427]

IMO it is a purely a means for dealers to drive customers back to the service dept. and a new gen automotive snake oil.

It's not new, the dealer I left last year had that service for a few months about 8-10 years ago then slowly just forgot about it. Even the sales people knew it was a waste of money.

 

[RyanR3KC]

Waste of time. Nitrogen tires only has a real use in the Aviation industry because of the constant altitude and climate changes.

 

[honeybadger]

Not to be difficult, but has anyone saying it's a waste of time tested it? Would be curious to see some data.

 

[mkonrad]

Here’s a FifthGear link, but it’s unlikely to resolve the question to a skeptics satisfaction.

 

[Tomster]

I was told that there is less pressure increase when running between hot and cold temps at the track. I almost did nitrogen this year at Daytona, but again, I ran out of time.

I saw Dean Martin had a big ass bottle of nitrogen at the track. I'm sure there is a very good reason he, and other racers use it.

 

[Zitrosounds]

Not to be difficult, but has anyone saying it's a waste of time tested it? Would be curious to see some data.

Yes

 

[RyanR3KC]

Not to be difficult, but has anyone saying it's a waste of time tested it? Would be curious to see some data.

yes. Oxygen is more susceptible than Nitrogen to expanding and condensing due to heat and air pressure, that's why they made the switch in aircraft tires. there's minimal benefits of Nitrogen. Maybe if you were storing the car for a long period of time?

I've ran numerous track days...I usually deflate the tires a couple PSI because of the heat and hard driving. You are fine with just regular air.


you can also read this: https://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=191

 

[nastang87xx]

Well whenever we're at the track or autoX and have to adjust air, we're not filling up on nitrogen, we just have a regular ol' pump and I've yet to have an issue by any stretch of the means. So there's that.

 

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I was told that there is less pressure increase when running between hot and cold temps at the track. I almost did nitrogen this year at Daytona, but again, I ran out of time.

I saw Dean Martin had a big ass bottle of nitrogen at the track. I'm sure there is a very good reason he, and other racers use it.

Well, we all use it on airplanes too because it’s clean, dry and inert but air works too. I think nitrogen is of marginal benefit to racers. Zero benefit on the street. There’s probably a white paper out there but I haven’t seen it. If I had Dean’s budget, I would have a nitrogen bottle instead of a ratty old compressor

 

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