Low tire pressure
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Low tire pressure
Anyone has experienced the low tire pressure indicator comes on when the outside temperature is cold?
It happened to me last week. When I started my car, an alarm went on but I did not know what it was at first. Then I saw the low tire pressure indicator lit up. The outside temp was 29F. What puzzles me is if it is a faulty reading from the sensor, would you think the indicator will go away once the tires reached operating temp? Or I actually am low on air? I checked all four tires when I got home and none looked low. Any suggestion?
It happened to me last week. When I started my car, an alarm went on but I did not know what it was at first. Then I saw the low tire pressure indicator lit up. The outside temp was 29F. What puzzles me is if it is a faulty reading from the sensor, would you think the indicator will go away once the tires reached operating temp? Or I actually am low on air? I checked all four tires when I got home and none looked low. Any suggestion?
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Yeah, it did it to me couple of weeks ago, car was sitting outside all night, the buzz went off and light came on, first I thought i had flat, but after I drove it home and could not find and nails or screws, then checked the tire perswure, sure enough one of the tire was at 29psi...just check your tire pressure with tire gauge, with our low profie tires? it dont look much differnt weather its at 25 or 35
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Originally Posted by PieroG35
The indicator went on this week (first real cold weather). Today I checked the pressure and it was like 32-33 psi. I filled to 35-36 psi, but the light remained on. Does it take time to go off?
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Originally Posted by eelton
How would this work? The atmosphere is already 80% nitrogen anyway--how would replacing the rest of the gasses help?
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Originally Posted by elau
Anyone has experienced the low tire pressure indicator comes on when the outside temperature is cold?
It happened to me last week. When I started my car, an alarm went on but I did not know what it was at first. Then I saw the low tire pressure indicator lit up. The outside temp was 29F. What puzzles me is if it is a faulty reading from the sensor, would you think the indicator will go away once the tires reached operating temp? Or I actually am low on air? I checked all four tires when I got home and none looked low. Any suggestion?
It happened to me last week. When I started my car, an alarm went on but I did not know what it was at first. Then I saw the low tire pressure indicator lit up. The outside temp was 29F. What puzzles me is if it is a faulty reading from the sensor, would you think the indicator will go away once the tires reached operating temp? Or I actually am low on air? I checked all four tires when I got home and none looked low. Any suggestion?
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Couple reasons to put Nitrogen in your tires:
-Compressed air has a lot of moisture: Moisture can corrode your $3000+ rims/tires and it is mostly responsible for the fluctuations in your tire pressure.
-Less fluctuation in tire pressure = up to 25% more mileage out of your tires and slightly better gas mileage (+1-3 mpg on average).
-Nitrogen, because of the filtration process, is dry.
-Nitrogen is 6 times less likely to permeate through rubber.
-Compressed air has a lot of moisture: Moisture can corrode your $3000+ rims/tires and it is mostly responsible for the fluctuations in your tire pressure.
-Less fluctuation in tire pressure = up to 25% more mileage out of your tires and slightly better gas mileage (+1-3 mpg on average).
-Nitrogen, because of the filtration process, is dry.
-Nitrogen is 6 times less likely to permeate through rubber.