Tyre pressures
01-15-2002, 02:08 PM
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32 psi. As per the recommendation.
My old pappy used to say, "If a car manufacturer and a tyre manufacturer have got together and come up with some optimum tyre pressures for a car, then those are the optimum tyre pressures for the car"
He spent 26 years working for Goodyear .
Pete
My old pappy used to say, "If a car manufacturer and a tyre manufacturer have got together and come up with some optimum tyre pressures for a car, then those are the optimum tyre pressures for the car"
He spent 26 years working for Goodyear .
Pete
01-20-2002, 12:25 AM
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I ran mine at 30 for a while to try and increase grip, didn't notice much different until I went back to 32PSI, the car felt much more stable and planted, gave me a whole load more confidence in the car again.
Definitely staying with 32!!
Definitely staying with 32!!
03-06-2002, 02:39 AM
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I collected my car with 1700 miles on the clock and the rears had reasonable tread left on them. The car has now down 3400 miles and the rears are bald!
Since this is my first rear wheel drive car I have not been pushing things at all (no spinning of wheels, no back out!), so was quite shocked at the tyre wear.
For the last 3 weeks I have been running my stock tyres at 36psi could this be the cause of the problem?
Thanks for any advice.
Since this is my first rear wheel drive car I have not been pushing things at all (no spinning of wheels, no back out!), so was quite shocked at the tyre wear.For the last 3 weeks I have been running my stock tyres at 36psi could this be the cause of the problem?
Thanks for any advice.
03-06-2002, 04:20 AM
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Originally posted by PWE 896
32 psi. As per the recommendation.
My old pappy used to say, "If a car manufacturer and a tyre manufacturer have got together and come up with some optimum tyre pressures for a car, then those are the optimum tyre pressures for the car"
He spent 26 years working for Goodyear .
Pete
32 psi. As per the recommendation.
My old pappy used to say, "If a car manufacturer and a tyre manufacturer have got together and come up with some optimum tyre pressures for a car, then those are the optimum tyre pressures for the car"
He spent 26 years working for Goodyear .
Pete
I think marketing considerations can overrule the technical optimum.On my S2000, I've found that lower tyre pressure give more understeer (discovered courtesy of dealer
). I think that higher pressures promote oversteer, to the extent that it can get quite tail happy.FWIW, does anyone know what temperature cold tyres should be? I image that it really means 25C ambient temperature. Is there a scale / calculation for lower ambient conditions?
03-06-2002, 05:02 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by mattpond
[B]I collected my car with 1700 miles on the clock and the rears had reasonable tread left on them. The car has now down 3400 miles and the rears are bald! Since this is my first rear wheel drive car I have not been pushing things at all (no spinning of wheels, no back out!), so was quite shocked at the tyre wear.
For the last 3 weeks I have been running my stock tyres at 36psi could this be the cause of the problem?
[B]I collected my car with 1700 miles on the clock and the rears had reasonable tread left on them. The car has now down 3400 miles and the rears are bald!
Since this is my first rear wheel drive car I have not been pushing things at all (no spinning of wheels, no back out!), so was quite shocked at the tyre wear.For the last 3 weeks I have been running my stock tyres at 36psi could this be the cause of the problem?
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