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1) Most racers don't use nitrogen. I've raced for years on air filled tires, never had a problem. Those racers that do use nitrogen usually do so because they have nitrogen pressure cylinders for some other purpose. If you have it, there's no sense in carrying an air compressor to the track. Very high speed racers such as LSR and F1 prefer a dry fill, since any condensed water will vaporize when the tire gets hot, and possibly cause unbalanced pressures. Tank nitrogen is usually dry, but it's also acceptable to put a drier inline with an air compressor to achieve the same thing. This effect is too tiny to notice at normal road speeds, it has nothing to do with your car.
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2) Nitrogen fill doesn't last any longer than air. The rationale they'll give for this is that nitrogen is heavier than oxygen, so it doesn't squeeze out through the rubber. Well, air is 80% nitrogen. So if oxygen squeezes out through the rubber, then in time, you will have a pure nitrogen fill. Top it off with air, and after a few times you will have a tire full of nitrogen. It's nonsense, rubber is pretty much impermeable to oxygen, nitrogen, or air.
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3) Nitrogen doesn't run cooler. It simply doesn't. It will follow the gas laws, just like oxygen, and has similar thermal characteristics. So pressure will increase as the tires heat.
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4) Nitrogen is used in aircraft tires mainly because pressurized nitrogen is available in commercial aircraft hangars, used to pressurize hydraulics. Since aircraft tires are pressurized to 300lbs, filling them from a 1500 lb cylinder of nitrogen is a lot more sensible than installing a high pressure air pump. Also, aircraft fly at altitudes where the ambient temperature is far below zero. Any water would freeze, throwing the tire out of balance on landing. Filling with dry nitrogen avoids this problem. Finally, when landing at 200 mph, there is a tendeny for tires to catch fire, and a nitrogen fill has fire retardant value. What does any of this have to do with cars? Nothing.
5) A pure nitrogen fill doesn't make it less likely that a tire rots from the inside out. If a tire fails due to chemical degradation, it's going to fail from the outside in. The outside of the tire lives in air and sunlight. Not to mention a regular bath of road salt, detergents, and acid rain. By contrast, the inside of the tire is rubber heaven.
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6) No matter what gas you fill your tires with, pressure will change with ambient temperature. If the temperature dips to 10 degrees, will you have a nitrogen station handy to increase your pressure?
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7) You can't fill your tires with pure nitrogen. When you mount the tires, they are filled with air. Adding additional gas, whether it be air or nitrogen, simply pressurizes the tire...the air that was originally inside remains there.
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Nothing, well moisture is reduced. Nitrogen is inert,,ie nonreactive with anything.Nothing. Why? Because 78% of the air we breathe is composed of this inert gas.
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But, if your car's tires are on nitrogen, then it is probably not good if you mix it with normal air, as this will now become humid or "wet".
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Normal air contains water, and water is not consistent when under pressure. When it's too hot, it expands, thus expanding your tires to probably a little harder than what's necessary inflation. The reverse might be possible if it's too cold, like driving in a winter.
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Nothing. Nascar cars use nitrogen int the tires. It's easier for them to adjust the pressures by tiny amounts.More Questions & Answers ...
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