Nitrogen Tire fills

[Dectek]

Good News ...The local Toyota Dealership will fill your tires with Nitrogen for only $60.00
I saw the sign and HAD TO ASK.
After asking if the 79% of air that was nitrogen was not good enough I was Corrected and told that it was only 60% .... Oops my bad
I was then told that their nitrogen was guaranteed at least 95% pure nitrogen. I suggested that they get a new supplier.
I think my smile was getting bigger and bigger or a neon sign on my forehead started flashing BS BS because the service writer said that it must work well because there is a patent on it. Patent does not mean it works.... And can you get a patent on a element? Reasons given were that you got better mileage and a better ride (suspension properties) and nitrogen pressures do not change due to temperature.

I am usually up for making somebody eat their own words but the little devil on my shoulder told me it was TOO easy and I just walked away shaking my head.


Just for the record, I have filled tires with 21% nitrox, 32% nitrox, CO2, Nitrogen, argon. Not for any enhanced performance or anything. One reason....It was a compressed gas.

 

[herman]

.................... and nitrogen pressures do not change due to temperature.

Hummmm, must be some kind of new kind of nitrogen that is not subject to the gas laws.

The BS meter is fully pegged on this one.

 

[diversteve]

I heard WalMart does it also. Probably cheaper than Toyota. Supposedly one benefit is that Nitrogen leaks out slower than air.

http://www.irtools.com/news/article.asp/news_id/47

 

[Dave in PA]

Another reason given is that is doesn't degrade the rubber inside the tire as fast as regular air, due to no O2 in it. Gee I wonder how they handle the outside?

I've had to chisel 40 year old tires off of rims that still held air.......no new tires I've bought have lasted more than 3 years.....

 

[CDNScubaMoose]

am usually up for making somebody eat their own words but the little devil on my shoulder told me it was TOO easy and I just walked away shaking my head.

You have way more control then I would have. I have heard the commercials on radio and they have always brought a smile to my face but if I was actually told that regular air only had 60% N2 and that the pressure didn't change due to temperature I am pretty sure that I couldn't have walked away from that debate. Hats off to you for be able to but I know I couldn't have.

Question was the $60 per tire or for all 4? I have a really cool invention in my glove box called a tire gauge that didn't cost me nearly that much that I use to check my tires whenever I fill up. I don't know about everyone else but it seems to me that the outside of my tire wears out way before the inside.

 

[dmblack58]

Good News ...The local Toyota Dealership will fill your tires with Nitrogen for only $60.00.

Reasons given were that you got better mileage and a better ride (suspension properties) and nitrogen pressures do not change due to temperature.

Of course it gets better mileage and better ride but that's not for you its for the dealership owner. At $60 to fill someone's tires the owner is going to be able to afford a much better car.

 

[300bar]

I saw the sign and HAD TO ASK.
After asking if the 79% of air that was nitrogen was not good enough I was Corrected and told that it was only 60% .... Oops my bad

So if this guy is wright we all have been *******d by our LDS
eanx 40 just comes out off thin air

 

[dlndavid]

Costco does it for free, and they throw in some green valve stem caps, pretty cool eh?

 

[do it easy]

Costco does it for free, and they throw in some green valve stem caps, pretty cool eh?

Are they green and yellow caps that say NITROGEN in 3'' high letters? The scuba police might stop you.

 

[mike_s]

The Toyota dealership says they want $60 for it? *ouch*

My local tire shop does it for free (if you buy your tires there) or $20 if you don't. $20 seems a bit high, but if you factor in they have to buy the machine and then pay an employee to drain the air out of your tires and then refill them, labor costs them something so I think it's reasonable as I don't expect them to do it for free.

I haven't done any "scientific comparision" of my tires with Nitrogen verses regular air, but it I've been happy with the tires ride/performance, etc since the conversion to nitrogen.