NSFW NSFK! Do I have to pound it into your HEAD? Check your tire pressure MORONS?

Check your tire pressure

Pisses me off!

People driving around with under inflated tires!

If anything I think cops should give warnings to these Jerks and the uneducated public for not maintaining the correct tire pressure.

Under inflated tires cost the owner alot of $$$ in hidden cost. It just annoys me that I will be driving behind someone and can visually SEE that one of the back tires are low, unacceptable! Not only are you losing gas mileage (and money) by doing so, you’re putting yourself at risk of blowing out your tires, losing control in inclement weather, and possibly even killing yourself.

Sure, there is the new tire monitoring system in vehicles, but your system in your new car just might not alert you to a problem until it’s much too late and the vehicle has already flipped over and killed everyone inside.

Hello

Also to add read your tire not you door colum for correct tire pressure. My mother brought her car in for a checkup and the dumbass mechanic went by the door colum sticker. Her tires were 12lbs underinflated. Her tires are suppose to be at 44 lbs not 32 lbs.

igiveup

igiveup said:

Hello

Also to add read your tire not you door colum for correct tire pressure.
igiveup

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Then why do the car mfg's put it there in the first place.If I went by what was on my tires on my old e-250 I would have 40lbs in all of the tires and not 40 in the front and 80 in the back.So who do you listen to?

You do go by the DOOR sticker. The PSI on the tire is the MAX PSI for the tire. You only use the MAX PSI when you are using the MAX LOAD rating. At max pressure it may handle better and you can haul more but, you have worse ride quality and will wear out the center of the tire.

igiveup said:

Hello

Also to add read your tire not you door colum for correct tire pressure. My mother brought her car in for a checkup and the dumbass mechanic went by the door colum sticker. Her tires were 12lbs underinflated. Her tires are suppose to be at 44 lbs not 32 lbs.

igiveup

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ahem...
WRONG.

skinner said:

ahem...
WRONG.

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Thats what I thought..Didn't Ford have a little trouble with the exploder/firestone thing a few years back with the wrong tire pressure in the tires.Or was just crap tires.

chittybangbang said:

Thats what I thought..Didn't Ford have a little trouble with the exploder/firestone thing a few years back with the wrong tire pressure in the tires.Or was just crap tires.

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More or less boiled down to crap tires. They had a tendency of blowing out when the tires weren't inflated properly...if you can even really call it a "tendency". But how often do you see yuppies with a tire guage checking their pressure? Guess they thought Ford should have taken that into a account when using them...
eh well.

chittybangbang said:

Then why do the car mfg's put it there in the first place.If I went by what was on my tires on my old e-250 I would have 40lbs in all of the tires and not 40 in the front and 80 in the back.So who do you listen to?

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I've always felt it was because the door rating is for that manufacturers specific brand of tire of the exact same size. go to something different, even a very similar tire of the same size and the rating can change. Steel belts/nylon belts etc., the number of them, the type of rubber, the list goes on.

I've heard that you take a piece of chalk and make a wide line across your tire and then drive across a FLAT and CLEAN concrete surface once and see the marks it makes on your tire. there's a way you can tell if it's at the correct pressure by the scrubbing marks on it. it'll also tell you if you need and alignment. Ideally it would have the same pattern across the entire width of the tire and not worn on the edges or in the middle. I have to admit I've never bothered with it.

I have had a tire blowout though, and yes it was a blowout, there was a loud "BANG" and I literally felt the car drop several inches. it was fully loaded 89 cavalier (loaded up to the ceiling and the trunk was full too) doing about 85 (trying to keep up with my lead-foot father who knew where we were going). The car actually didn't drive any different. No joke. No freaky pull to the side, no jerking, just a bang and then some thumping around. It didn't do anything weird. I've had friends loose entire wheels driving down the road, rim and all, and they kept pretty good control of it.

I actually run mine at 50, but then again I don't drive distracted. I might have a can of pop once and a while, but the cell goes on speaker, if I need to mess with something I pull over, and I keep my hands on the wheel and not panic (and jerk the wheel, which I believe is the real problem) when something does happen. I'm 25 and have yet to have an accident or ticket.

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chittybangbang said:

Thats what I thought..Didn't Ford have a little trouble with the exploder/firestone thing a few years back with the wrong tire pressure in the tires.Or was just crap tires.

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They did have some issues, the door pressure was something like 22-24 psi (IIRC). No doubt it made it drive a little soggy. and if that still sounds like plenty remember that it's a heavy SUV, my room mate had a suburban with 31" A/T's on it, if he aired down to 10 psi it was almost on the rim, meanwhile a Cherokee we were with on 31" A/T's was running 8psi and doing fine.

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There is no doubt people should check their tire pressure more often, I whole heartedly agree. as for the proper pressure, well, thats still debateable I guess. Make sure it isn't too low at the very least.

igiveup said:

Hello

Also to add read your tire not you door colum for correct tire pressure. My mother brought her car in for a checkup and the dumbass mechanic went by the door colum sticker. Her tires were 12lbs underinflated. Her tires are suppose to be at 44 lbs not 32 lbs.

igiveup

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Read the sidewall of the tire again. The 44 PSI is for the tire when all the rated weight the tire can hold is on the tire. I was looking at my 275-50-15's yesterday on my Mustang and the 44PSI was at 3650lbs for that one tire.

OilPatch197 said:

Pisses me off!

People driving around with under inflated tires!

If anything I think cops should give warnings to these Jerks and the uneducated public for not maintaining the correct tire pressure.

Under inflated tires cost the owner alot of $$$ in hidden cost. It just annoys me that I will be driving behind someone and can visually SEE that one of the back tires are low, unacceptable! Not only are you losing gas mileage (and money) by doing so, you’re putting yourself at risk of blowing out your tires, losing control in inclement weather, and possibly even killing yourself.

Sure, there is the new tire monitoring system in vehicles, but your system in your new car just might not alert you to a problem until it’s much too late and the vehicle has already flipped over and killed everyone inside.

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Did you forget to take your medication this morning? If you want to ejaculate rude things at us, the unwashed masses, at least support it with some evidence. Somewhere someone has done tests with an infared thermometer on tires. I would be pretty shocked to learn that a tire on a RBV reached a dangerous heat level down to 10psi. Unfortunately for proponents of natural selection, car tires are very robust objects. My in-laws race around all over the midwest with 10 psi in one or another tire. They just put gas in and drive it till trade in. Most of the masses do this. If you had some data showing that improperly inflated tires are killing us off like lemmings I could accept the rebule because I haven't a damn clue if there is any air in my tires at all.


Definately go by the door sticker. Two cars of different weights may use the same tire--obviously the heavier car needs more air pressure for the same volume of tire to hold it up.

Combs Customs said:

You do go by the DOOR sticker. The PSI on the tire is the MAX PSI for the tire. You only use the MAX PSI when you are using the MAX LOAD rating. At max pressure it may handle better and you can haul more but, you have worse ride quality and will wear out the center of the tire.

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True, but what about max pressure for the rim. Some of them are lower than the max pressure on the tire.

Danger06Ranger said:

True, but what about max pressure for the rim. Some of them are lower than the max pressure on the tire.

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While that may be true, for the sake of the argument he is talking about people who have ZERO automotive knowledge. Most likely running stock rims with a stock or close to stock tire.

Hello

When I was driving for Exide Batterys we leased all of our trucks from Ryder Canada. We had to take a course put on by Ryder on tire pressures. They insisted on inflating the tires to max pressure all the time. Since I dont have door stickers anymore I go by the tire and my tires seem to last longer and Im getting better gas milage also.

I might be wrong but im sticking to it till proven otherwise.

igiveup

door sticker!

Definatly go by the door sticker, not the max pressure on the sidewall. I don't know of a car out there that would need 44psi in the tires!!