Some arguments for nitrogen-filled tires just don’t make any sense. Like the argument that you don’t have to fill up your tires as often with nitrogen as you would with regular air. Air is free and nitrogen is $5 a tire!
Codiac RCMP to try nitrogen-filled car tires
RCMP in the Moncton area are filling their car tires with nitrogen in an experiment designed to reduce gas consumption.
How about taking the donuts away from the cops? That would lower the weight in the car thus reducing gas consumption.
Chantal Farrah, spokeswoman for the Codiac RCMP, said the firm that maintains the detachment’s vehicles is conducting a pilot project for the summer.
Twenty of the 38 vehicles in the Codiac RCMP detachment are sporting green valve caps on their tires to identify them as cars with the nitrogen-filled tires.
Do you hear that bad guys? Shot at the tires. BOOM! I don’t know if they would blow up, but that would be kinda cool.
“They’re going to decide if we’ve seen improvements with our gas consumption, and the wear and tear of our tires,” Farrah said Wednesday.
Nitrogen has been used in race car, airplane and commercial truck tires for years, but it’s only recently become available for passenger cars.
Unless the gas is raising the car off the ground, I don’t see how this would help at all. Didn’t they do this on Myth Busters?
Ed McNeil, who runs one of the few shops in the Moncton area providing the gas for consumers, said more and more customers are asking for a nitrogen fill up.
“The idea of nitrogen is to keep the temperatures down and keep air pressure constant,” McNeil said.
Nitrogen is less prone to leak from tires and cause the underinflation that increases fuel consumption. It also reacts less with metal wheels and the rubber in tires, extending their lifespan.
McNeil said the nitrogen-filled tires can improve fuel efficiency by as much as five per cent, but it costs $5 per tire to inflate them with nitrogen.
Question is, will it save you $20 in gas consumption and tire wear?
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