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Thread ID: 145468	2017-11-10 20:25:00	Tyre Pressure	bk T (215)	PC World Chat

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1441787	2017-11-12 05:17:00	So, what is the conclusion here? Don't bother too much to check the tyre pressure as long as it is still 'visually' OK, and keep running until the uneven tyre wear is visiable?	bk T (215)
1441788	2017-11-12 06:19:00	Maybe check your home gauge against a few different garages, if they are all quite different it won't help much but if a consistent pattern emerges you might get a pretty good Idea of what's accurate. Bit of trivia on the tyre pressure front, probably I was just late learning this one and everyone else knew it already but if you open your drivers door and look at the label on the pillar it'll have the factory tyre pressures labelled there.	dugimodo (138)
1441789	2017-11-12 06:43:00	So, what is the conclusion here? Don't bother too much to check the tyre pressure as long as it is still 'visually' OK, and keep running until the uneven tyre wear is visiable? No, that shouldn't be the conclusion, that's plain silly. You should keep a check on tyre pressure even though you don't know the 'absolute' accuracy of the gauges. You should at least maintain the factory recommended pressures, preferably using the same gauge, either your pocket gauge or the one at your regular garage. As Tweak'e said pressure will vary with temperature, between a hot day and a cold day, between stationary and high speed running. Uneven tyre wear can be due to wheel misalignment as well as uneven pressures. Nobody knows the accuracy of the gauges unless they have access to a standard pressure gauge, or the garage can demonstrate they have periodic calibration checks. So every one is in the same boat. Just use common sense.	Terry Porritt (14)
1441790	2017-11-12 08:47:00	visual inspection of tires is a bit hit and miss. there is a few different approaches such as the 4psi rule and the inch rule. however handling should show up the differences in pressure a lot easier. its a case of try one pressure, test drive, try another, test drive etc. if you change tires, do it all again. as an example my ute factory spec is 32 psi, but the tires we run require 40-50 psi. the trailer is worse. the tire place puts 30 odd psi in, but they require 80-90psi.	tweak'e (69)
1441791	2017-11-12 21:37:00	a few psi isnt going to make any noticable difference for the majority of us. As the tyre heats up the pressure changes anyway, so are we adjusting our tyre pressure 3,4 time a day to suit ... nope. :-)	1101 (13337)
1441792	2017-11-13 03:24:00	manufactures specs don't mean anything unless its still on the original factory tires. this whole thing of "check your air pressure to the manufactures spec" because most of us don't run factory tires. different tires require different pressures. you need to work out whats suitable for your tires and if your using your gauge, then the numbers don't mean much. if you use your gauge accuracy no longer is an issue. Let's be Kiwi here, not American. The correct spelling is "tyre" not "tire". The Yanks have no idea how to spell. Let's keep with the English, please - not American!	Roscoe (6288)
1441793	2017-11-13 06:49:00	The Wasp had 4 tires filled to 60 psi with air, we had a PDL auto type tire inflator. It was sent of for an annual calibration, it had a correction card if the pressure diff was bugger all otherwise they binned it.	prefect (6291)
1441794	2017-11-13 20:31:00	Let's be Kiwi here, not American. The correct spelling is "tyre" not "tire". The Yanks have no idea how to spell. Let's keep with the English, please - not American! fail :) the historically correct spelling is tire . The yanks are correct . Again . www.etymonline.com Fake news .	1101 (13337)
1441795	2017-11-13 20:46:00	fail :) the historically correct spelling is tire . The yanks are correct . Again . www.etymonline.com Fake news . Best you read your own links before posting them :p The original spelling was tyre, which had shifted to tire in 17c.-18c., but since early 19c. tyre has been revived in Great Britain and become standard there.	dugimodo (138)
1441796	2017-11-13 22:14:00	One possible reason that the American spelling is tire, may be not only because of Noah Webster's simplified revisions, but also they took with them English spellings from the 17th and 18th centuries. No matter what, it has to accepted gracefully that hundreds of millions speak and write American........they outnumber by just a tad those who speak and write New Zild :clap :banana	Terry Porritt (14)
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