tires oxygen verses nitrogen

[rojo212]

I only ask cause that's what my truck came with. I would prefer to put air. $30 a tire to fill em at the dealership.

 

[Evilmonkey]

Last time I checked air is still free! I've heard of filling car tires with nitrogen, but never on a Raptor.

 

[mouldman1]

i forgot where i saw it but it was on a mythbusters type of show...anyway the benefits of filling tires with nitrogen are confirmed...problem is that you have to fill it with 100% nitrogen which is impossible to do because there will always be air in the tire. So unless you can mount the tire in a nitrogen rich atmosphere or find a way to remove all the air from the tire before filling it with nitrogen its basically pointless.

 

[LastLight]

I filled my BFG MT 33s on my other truck with Nitrogen because i heard that they did not leak like air does as the temps get colder.

Didn't work for me. As soon as it got cold outside I lost tire pressure considerably. Needing to fill them up and not having a nitrogen compressor I just filled them up with air and my TPMS sensors reset themselves.

I am not convinced of its use yet. Dealer will refill my tires with nitrogen the next time I stop in.

 

[Icecobra]

The air you breathe and compressed air are 78% nitrogen anyways... Short of purging the 78% air out and refilling with Nitrogen then your not going to see much change on normally street driven tires.. in racing you see a difference but these are trying to cut hundredths of a second which in the real world is just not much for us...

 

[OrangeAddict]

Air. The nitrogen does not buy much if you air down often like I do.

 

[HAYNES OFFROAD]

Back when I was heavy into auto x, I had looked into nitrogen filled tires, and the best way you could do it is getting rims that had capability of 2 valve stems oppisite of each other (I think 949racing's 6UL rims had them). Position them at 12 & 6 and you can purge the air with nitrogen for a 100% nitrogen fill. Simple but effective.

But otherwise useless for our trucks.

 

[Backinblack]

Nitrogen...because it sounds ******* cool.

 

[AggieSVT]

Nitrogen's main benefit is just to make the tires last longer. Air causes the tires to corrode faster, but nitrogen doesn't.

 

[mouldman1]

A Raptors main benefit is to make the tires wear faster...