Filling tires with Nitrogen - RV-Dreams Community Forum

Ken Cindy Ditka and Sox · RV-Dreams Family Member

Filling tires with Nitrogen

Howard · Host

From what I can find, nitrogen appears to be better for your tires than "free air" which is mostly nitrogen anyway.

But I don't know if it is $10 per tire better. smile

If you don't mind spending the money and can do it conveniently, do it - it certainly won't hurt. However, I didn't find quite enough evidence to make me want to go out of my way to do it. biggrin

By the lack of replies so far, I'm guessing not many people, at least on this Forum, use nitrogen in their tires. But maybe we should. smile

Postalpair · RV-Dreams Family Member

We just recently replaced all of our tires on our 5th wheel.....Loadstar Karrier Tires by Kenda ( don't ask, but after 3 blowouts, we replaced them all ). Anyway, the nitrogen provides larger molecules which slows expansion and contraction caused by a change in temperatures and changes in altitude. In our dealing with the nitrogen we can feel a difference in the tires. We tow with a F-550 and even putting it in our truck tires has made a difference in the way the truck handles and even in our mileage.
So I guess you can say that it has worked for us!!

Luvglass · RV-Dreams Family Member

Postalpair wrote:

We just recently replaced all of our tires on our 5th wheel.....Loadstar Karrier Tires by Kenda ( don't ask, but after 3 blowouts, we replaced them all ). Anyway, the nitrogen provides larger molecules which slows expansion and contraction caused by a change in temperatures and changes in altitude. In our dealing with the nitrogen we can feel a difference in the tires. We tow with a F-550 and even putting it in our truck tires has made a difference in the way the truck handles and even in our mileage.
So I guess you can say that it has worked for us!!

Hi,

In the interests of science, chemistry and physics, all I can say is
Salesmanship is alive and well. confused

Fred

P.S. Jo has properly reprimanded me on my snappy answer. Here's a discussion group of automotive engineers and what they think on the subject.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=120996&page=1

-- Edited by Luvglass at 00:51, 2007-07-09

Postalpair · RV-Dreams Family Member

Guess I should have added, that when we bought the tires, the dealer DID NOT CHARGE US anything extra for the nitrogen. As a matter of fact, after we got back from our vacation, we had a survey waiting for us from Goodyear asking us about the performance of the nitrogen fills. Goes to show you get what you pay for.......