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Date:         Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:57:28 -0400
Reply-To:     Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Max Wellhouse <dimwittedmoose@CFU.NET>
Subject:      Re: Nytrogen and tires
Comments: To: Eric Caron <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <6E879684-1EE6-402C-AB34-361EAA592A20@comcast.net>
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Eric: I have a friend here in Cedar Falls Iowa that fills his tires exclusively with nitrogen. He runs a really small tire mounting and balancing shop out of his garage and does mobile repairs as well. He says that in order to mount tires and fill them with nitrogen, you have to make sure the bead sealing surface is absolutely pristine, so there's no chance of micro leaks from pitted sealing surfaces. I think he charged like $10/tire to do the fill. Not sure how he would evacuate the normal atmospheric air form the process, but I have used his services on my Vanco II Continentals mounted on Mercedes CLK forged aluminum rims(mounted on my 90 GL BTW) and they haven't lost 1 psi in like 4 years. I think Tire Rack offers the service as well. NASCAR Racers use nitrogen YMMV

DM&FS

----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Caron" <ecaron1@COMCAST.NET> To: "vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM" <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 4:32:04 PM Subject: Nytrogen and tires

Hi folks,

this time of year I have a hard time keeping my tire pressure content. the temperatures outside vary greatly.

I recently learned that a friend has a car with Nitrogen filled tires. Is anyone doing this with your vanagon? Do you have any benefits to report? Will this help with content tire pressure and tire wear?

A little reading on google gave me different opinions on the value but it sounded like my needs would have the most benefit from a nitrogen fill. that is a car that is used infrequently, has low mileage on the tires, and thus would like the tires to last longer.

I’m not sure how expensive it is to fill this way and would like to hear if anyone has experience.

Eric Caron 85 GL Auto Westfalia Currently at 51 PSI General Ultimax Tires on plain old air


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