Nitrogen filled tyres?

[tbourner]

Has anyone had their tyres Nitrogen filled?

 

Did it make any difference apart from not having to check the tyre pressures?

 

How much and where from?

[DaveRex]

you could get "Uniflate" which is basically air with a lot of the moisture removed

 

or get them filled with Nitrogen, its about £1-2 a tyre with free top ups if needed generally

[JohnA]

I remember one of Mycroft's* GTR threads, where he described a cheap way of filling the tyres without moisture, by using an electric airpump inside the cabin while the aircon is operating

 

 

 

(*)

please don't hurt me!

[Alex]

You still have to make sure the tyre doesn't go down, but with Nitrogen the pressures stay more constant and are much less affected by heat, unlike normal air.

[Guest Terry S]

Oh how I miss Justin Foden and his posts like filling the tyres with helium to reduce the unsprung weight

[Ian C]

He should have used hydrogen.

[JohnA]

Oh how I miss Justin Foden and his posts like filling the tyres with helium to reduce the unsprung weight

 

I miss Mycroft actually.

 

Once we had a heated 'difference of opinions' on the GTR forum, and I called him 'Microsoft' in the way Paul Newman faked drunkedness in the card scene in The Sting. He didn't like it.

[Chris Wilson]

I use nitrogen in the race car tyres, but wouldn't bother with a road car, that's for sure. I evacuate the tyres first with a vac pump, then fill with nitrogen, which is also used in the shock bump canisters. It does work, and stabilises cold to hot pressures by at least 3 psi compared to normal air form a freshly drained compressor receiver.

[Rajinder]

We have used nitogen in our Intergra Type R, better than normal air.For 4 tyres plus the spare costs £5.00 and you can top up free during the lifetime of the tyres. Merityres do it.

Check their web site http://www.merityre.co.uk.