Tire is on backwards
Do you have a TPMS? (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) As you may already know, heat expands and cold contracts. The same thing goes for your tires. As your tires heat up, they may read a little on the high side, and vice versa. If I fill the tires in my Sentra (which is equipped with a TPMS) to 32 psi like the manufacturer specifies, I can drive around for maybe 45 minutes to an hour before the TPMS light goes on saying that I've got low tire pressure or a flat. I regularly set my tire pressures high in order to compensate for the loss in pressure when the tire heats up. Just my .02. I hope the stealership takes care of your issue before any real problems occur.
Cheers
Dave
Cheers
Dave
Yeah, so you have that EXACTLY BACKWARDS. Air increases in volume when it heats up, so your tires gain pressure with increasing temperature. The only way you would lose pressure is if you filled your tires at high temperature (say a heated garage) and then drove around on a cold day at speeds low enough to not heat the tires from friction. In addition, you should only have roughly 1 PSI of pressure change for every 10 degrees of temperature change, so a big difference in ambient temp outside (for example 70F to 30F) isn't going to make the pressure fluctuate more than a couple of PSI.
My girlfriend, who knows almost nothing about cars, knows that relationship backward and forward. Maybe you should start learning before you give advice....
Last edited by Fabrik8; Jan 28, 2008 at 10:11 PM.
Great PM. I drive a WRX because I live in Colorado and it snows here at least once a weeks all winter and most of the spring. Front wheel drive cars suck in the snow. I'm not debating this, it's not debatable. Rear wheel drive cars aren't much better most of the time. Any other questions?
I'm not normally an asshat, but I really don't like when someone gives advice or whatever that is totally wrong. I'm done.
I'm not normally an asshat, but I really don't like when someone gives advice or whatever that is totally wrong. I'm done.
10 psi is a big differance, plus the fact that they put a tire on backwards... id be getting more than a free key chain when i went back to see them about it...
and yeah you do gain psi with heat... not loose it...
and yeah you do gain psi with heat... not loose it...
The tire backwards is understandable when you look at the sidewall and the rotational thing, the 42+psi isn't.
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