cold weather travel

JumboJet wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

I guess you forgot what the topic was about....Driving from Florida to Missouri. When the topic was started, the temperature difference was in excess of 60 degrees at those locations. In that case the pressure drop would have been close to 16 pounds.

What you are forgetting is that friction of the tire will increase the pressure as the loaded rig rolls down the road.

So what you start with will not be what you have 50 miles down the road.

Some people are just anal about everything. There is a fair balance to life. Try to maintain that.

Common sense says to check tire pressure frequently. Check oil levels frequently. Be sure your alternator is charging your batteries, etc. etc. etc.

I have been driving all types of vehicles for 52 years with 1,000,000's of miles during those 52 years.

I have had ONE blowout on an OEM tire after hitting a pot hole at 70 mph. Just ONE! A couple of flats from nails, etc. but just ONE blowout caused by a pot hole.

I do purchase quality tires.

I doubt if too many people would drive straight through from Florida to Missouri. That is why in the very FIRST reply to the OP I told him to check his air in his tires after his OVERNIGHT stops. With the rapidly dropping temps he would experiencing when this topic started, he would be adding air at the start of each day. I did not say to stop 50 miles down the road, or anything else to that affect, that you infer.
I regularly make the drive each Winter from HOT Florida to below freezing temperatures as we go north. I passed my experience with the rapidly dropping temperatures on to the OP. The OP says that he is starting off with the CORRECT PSI. He did not say he added extra pressure to account for the temperature drop. In that case, when he got up the next morning, after his first stop, the temperatures would be considerably cooler and his tires would be well below the CORRECT pressure.