inflating tires on rv with nitrogen, good idea?
I'm interested in hearing comments on using nitrogen in tires on my rv, supposed to run cooler and maintain air pressure better. Any comments would be appreciated. Tom
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Unless your RV can accelerate to 150 mph in a mile and a half with a dragging brake and then you can fold the wheels up into an enclosed compartment, using nitrogen is a waste of money.
Airplanes use it, which is where my example above comes from. When I was at Boeing, I did a lot of research into in-flight tire bursts and all of them involved dragging brakes on take-off. The heat stored in the brakes then heated up the bay where the retracted gear was stowed and the tires blew.
One incident I looked at, the tire bead had failed in tension, suggesting a pressure inside the tire reached about 12,000 psi in a spontaneous combustion explosion. All the incidents were with air inflation, so Boeing made a strong recommendation to switch to nitrogen, whic is now standard.
Nitrogen is a total waste of money on 70 mph road vehicles.
Airplanes use it, which is where my example above comes from. When I was at Boeing, I did a lot of research into in-flight tire bursts and all of them involved dragging brakes on take-off. The heat stored in the brakes then heated up the bay where the retracted gear was stowed and the tires blew.
One incident I looked at, the tire bead had failed in tension, suggesting a pressure inside the tire reached about 12,000 psi in a spontaneous combustion explosion. All the incidents were with air inflation, so Boeing made a strong recommendation to switch to nitrogen, whic is now standard.
Nitrogen is a total waste of money on 70 mph road vehicles.
