Check tire pressure
 

After every hurricane check your tire pressure on cars and golf carts.
Hurricanes change the barometric pressure in the area.

Not exactly. The ambient pressure will drop some and then return. The pressure in the tires is fine. However, seasonal temperature changes will require some adjustment.

Tell that to Roger Goodell.

I check my tire pressure once month, it’s away down pound or 2. IMO if you don’t check you tires within 3 month period the pressure could be low enough to produce more wear tear on tires. Course running nitrogen don’t lose pressure so dramatically.

I’m sure someone tried to explain the ideal gas law to him.

Nitrogen is far more likely to leak than air. Nitrogen molecules are considerably smaller than oxygen and Co2, and can leak through far smaller openings than air. A good example is if you put nitrogen tanks on a standard Co2 dispenser for soda or beer, the tank will run dry in less than a day. Standard seals that contain Co2, can't contain nitrogen.

Nitrogen and oxygen molecules are very close in size with nitrogen being slightly larger.

When my car was new the tires were filled with nitrogen from factory or wherever. Tire pressure was consistent for two years or more. After that I figured tires were old enough to start loosing air. That’s when I had to occasionally top them off, but, never let them get low enough for tire light to come on.

I never put nitrogen back in them figured it was waste of money and good up charge by dealer. My understanding nitrogen molecules are larger and temperature changes don’t affect nitrogen as much as plain moisten old air. Even when my car was new I still checked tire pressure once month. Waiting for tire light to come on iMO asking for tire wear, but that’s me I am asinine on certain stuff. :oops:

You do realize our atmosphere is 78% Nitrogen, I would never waste my money filling tires with pure Nitrogen.

Must be some advantage to nitrogen. I thought most race car tires are nitrogen filled.

There will be a small reduction in pressure drop with time with a pure nitrogen fill compared with air. However, I doubt it is worth the cost or inconvenience. You should be checking your tire pressure regularly anyway and adjusting the pressure as needed with seasonal temperature changes. What race cars do usually has very little to do with what passenger cars should do. Apparently, some commercial and military applications call for nitrogen fills. Again, that probably has little to do with passenger car applications.

“I never put nitrogen back in them figured it was waste of money and good up charge by dealer“

Quoted from my post.

Before I retired, I would use the "free" Nitrogen at work. We used a lot to inert our reactors and keep them from going "boom":angel:

Ace car tires yes, but not for everyday driving
How many race cars do you see at Spanish springs??

From Google


The main benefit of nitrogen-filled tires is that the loss of tire pressure is slower, because the gas in the tire escapes more slowly than air does. With more stable tire pressure, the thinking goes, you'll get better gas mileage and get full tire life since you're always rolling on fully inflated tires.

Which does same thing check tire pressure once month.