[W126 Coupe] Tire pressures

[Shayegan, Richard]

It's not about pressures going up too quickly, it's about pressures going up consistently. At any given time air can be made up of different things, but the nitrogen they use is always the same so they know exactly what hot pressure will be yeilded by a given cold pressure. Ask da boy from Charlotte.
Richard

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com on behalf of Dan Landiss
Sent: Thu 6/1/2006 9:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Tire pressures



Axel Wulff wrote:
> I like to go to the highest elevation in the Rocky Mountains to change
> my air.
>
> The fresh, non-polluted air extends tire life and is gentler on the
> rubber and, as everyone knows, the air is lighter at high altitude so
> I save weight.

All kidding aside, the race tire suppliers now pump all the air out of
newly-mounted tires and replace it with dry air or dry nitrogen. Reason?
When it heats up, the water vapor expands faster than dry air would, and
thus the pressures go up too fast.

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