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loryray
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May 15, 2016

Nitrogen /air in tires

Can air be mixed w/nitrogen in tires. Dealer said NO. does anyone Know for sure?

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  • If you do have nitrogen in your tires, make sure you rotate it every six months. You can get a nitrogen distribution manifold from Amazon, or build one yourself. Even better, is to replace the nitrogen with pure hydrogen. Hydrogen is lighter than atmospheric air, and will make your towable product much lighter. You can test the hydrogen monthly by depressing the tire valve while holding a match or lighter close to it in order to see if it burns cleanly.


    Disclaimer. Don't do what I posted in the above paragraph. To answer your questions, you can certainly mix nitrogen with regular air.
  • A nitrogen post, and a Walmart post in the same day. Wow.
  • If you're on the NASCAR circuit, or you're going to take off in your F18 at sealevel in a humid environment, and climb to 35,000 I'd worry about keeping pure nitrogen in your tires, otherwise, air is 78% nitrogen anyways.
  • The air that we breath and that gets pumped into tires is about 78% nitrogen. Adding atmospheric air to you tires will do nothing more than change the ration of the mix of nitrogen to oxygen etc. The dealer is blowing nitrogen UYA!
    However, I am not convinced there is any real benefit to nitrogen except, to the vendor!
  • YES IT CAN
    The air we breathe is mostly nitrogen.
    Now quit wasting your money on nitrogen in tires.
    IT IS CLOSE TO A SCAM