tmd937

How many vette owners use nitrogen in their tires ? I use it on all my vehicles and find the tire pressure seems to maintain better than air.

08C6

Wow ...coincidence you talk about that...Rims and tires came in yesterday...Going to fill with nitrogen...Yes does keep tire pressure more accurate...In hot and cold situations much better...Longevity of tires "will" last longer providing normal driving...lol...He basically explained to me it is better !!!

R&L's C6

Unless it's free, it's a waste of money.......

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/n...tudy/index.htm

FortMorganAl

I wouldn't drive across the street for free nitrogen when I have a compressor in the garage. PV=nRT. It's the law.

Dry 78% nitrogen (also called air) is good enough. Do a search here or, if you don't believe the vast majority of us, here is another starter for a Google search - http://www.edmunds.com/car-care/shou...-nitrogen.html

tmd937

My dealer has always put nitrogen in my tires and replacement tires also .I have never been charged extra for this . It came with the car.

FortMorganAl

Since it costs money to extract nitrogen from air and compress it, compressed nitrogen is always going to cost more than compressed air. You pay for it. You just don't know how because the dealer is hiding the cost somewhere you don't see it. That's one of those more squishy laws of economics. But it still also the law.

jimmie jam

I my nearly 30 year practice I have never "charged extra" for anything when billing. Since I do not "work for free", every portion of my service is included in the bill. You can say that you weren't charged for a "service" in the invoice but you paid me for everthing i've done. What the heck, air is 78% nitro just like Al said. works for me

Don-Vette

About as useful as a screen door on a submarine. Lol

dvilin

Racer86

DRY nitrogen is used in race car tires, for one reason.
Moisture inside the tire will. Flash into steam in a race tire running well over 212deg. This will cause an increase of pressure as the water expands. this pressure change will effect the balance and handling of the race car.
We see tire temps well into 260 degrees under the tread .
not to much of a problem on a street car, but no harm to use it.

Vette_DD

Not enough places in town that have nitrogen and it's not free like the air I get at the Kroger gas station. Not enough advantage to make it worth all the trouble.

And the subject does come up here about 3 or 4 times a year.

2kvetmy

My 2013 GS came with N, but, when the tires were low, I simply added real air to them. All the guys I asked told me that N wasn't worth the search to find it unless you were racing

victorf

Informations from Edmunds, Consumereports are just opinions written from people no different than the nay sayers here. They meant nothing. Funny thing is: always the same "old dogs that never learned any new tricks"!

One thing for sure, regardless of free or what not, if they say nitrogen doesn't work in tire to maintained the pressure for longer interval then normal compressed air, then I know for sure, they have never use it. Simple, right!?

ls1121

^I agree 100%^

another Vote for snake oil.

EVRose

And what you just wrote is also an opinion.
Sure nitrogen works in a tire...just like air does.

Roddy1

AS an engineer, most of the nitrogen sales pitch is BS. I love when the say that the nitrogen molecule is larger than the Oxygen molecule so you don't loose pressure from it escaping through the rubber in you tire. 1 They are Atoms not molecules, 2 the oxygen atom is larger. Nitrogen really has no advantage over truly dry compressed air. The thing is most of us don't have truly dry air thus the fluctuations with temperature.

Racer86

Key word,,,,,,, DRY.

unixcorn

So dried, compressed air should be identical to Nitrogen if they are both dried to the same degree? And/or is nitrogen extracted from air already dry?

Boomer111

Is answer no!

tmd937

Well can we at least agree that the chrome and green caps are nice !