Is putting nitrogen in your tires worth the hassle in the long run
It's much more important to get the summer air out of your tires as winter approaches. Usually that's done during the regular servicing of your muffler bearings.
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I used only imported Himalayan air. It's lighter.
Make sure the replacement air is left handed!
Well, my Accord came with nitrogen tires. First service they swapped to air.
Just for giggles, because I've never actually done it, I monitored my MPG to see if there was an impact.
The result? I got the exact same MPG with regular air. No change. Nada. Zip. Zilch.
So if you want to use nitrogen that's fine, but as for it being better than air.....I'm not sold.
My Ridgeline also came with nitrogen filled tires. Switched to air and no difference there either, so even heavier vehicles aren't seeing a benefit.
It was all a gimmic. I remember a few years ago Tire Discounters' "out the door with more" radio ads saying the other guys don't do nitrogen inflation and it stays in the tire longer, among other things. They also had the gimmicy lime green valve stem caps to show off that you had nitrogen inflated tires. I haven't heard those commercials in several years and they don't put those green valve stem caps on anymore. That should tell you something.
Air is nearly 80% nitrogen to begin with!
I always thought that was advertising was comical. Anybody who paid attention in science class knows the atmosphere is mainly nitrogen, lol. Had a guy at one of those stores tell me he could look at a brand new tire on a car and tell if it was aligned or not. I said he's either Superman or full of it, no human can see fraction of a degree misalignments. Haha.
TOTAL BUNK!
