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DCJ 09-12-2009 11:38 PM

Only thing I did not like about the Nitrogen was that my dealer had put these cheesy ugly plastic green caps on the tubes. It was the first thing I saw when I looked at the my polished alum wheels..... I told them no way I was leaving there with green plastic caps like that. They had some nice stainless caps they changed out that had N on the top end to represent Nitrogen.

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Gone to the bowtie side 09-18-2009 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Windy City (Post 872059)
The bad part about filling your tires with nitrogen is you can't drive your car in a lake, then use the air in the tires to breath from. No McGuiver action! :D

I was at Road America a few weeks ago. I was surprised to see all the nitrogen bottles there. Road racing exclusively uses it due to the thermal stability. I am presently going through all my company vehicles and changing to nitrogen. We will see first hand if there is any noticeable changes.

You'll see a remarkable lightness in your wallet.

SSRS2010 09-18-2009 09:23 PM

WE DID IT :thumbup: :wub:

CAM MAN 09-18-2009 09:26 PM

NIce Thank's for the info.

OUR72GTO 09-18-2009 10:24 PM

Costco has free nitrogen.

jayson71 09-18-2009 10:44 PM

Why not use Helium it has a root mean square travel rate of 1370 m/s this is 14 times faster than nitrogen plus it will make your car lighter because this is what make balloons float.

patriotpa 09-19-2009 02:56 PM

Mr. Barnum was right!

1camaro70 09-29-2009 08:47 AM

WARNING:
Only thing I did not like about the Nitrogen was that my dealer had put these cheesy ugly plastic green caps on the tubes. It was the first thing I saw when I looked at the my polished alum wheels..... I told them no way I was leaving there with green plastic caps like that. They had some nice stainless caps they changed out that had N on the top end to represent Nitrogen.

Those metal caps will react with the tiny electrical charge generated by the TPMS and bond themselves to the valve stem, you will not be able to remove, after the covers were stollen from my Acura RL replaced with metal ones, 3 out of four could not be removed, had to replace entire TPMS valve assembly

Abygale 09-29-2009 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by 1camaro70 (Post 981907)
WARNING:
Only thing I did not like about the Nitrogen was that my dealer had put these cheesy ugly plastic green caps on the tubes. It was the first thing I saw when I looked at the my polished alum wheels..... I told them no way I was leaving there with green plastic caps like that. They had some nice stainless caps they changed out that had N on the top end to represent Nitrogen.

Those metal caps will react with the tiny electrical charge generated by the TPMS and bond themselves to the valve stem, you will not be able to remove, after the covers were stollen from my Acura RL replaced with metal ones, 3 out of four could not be removed, had to replace entire TPMS valve assembly

So any suggestions? I have the metal ones with the "N" on the top of the cap as well. Should we unscrew them every few days or week to make sure they don't fuse or bond to the valve???

Sponge60 09-29-2009 09:50 AM

That should help lessen the bonding issue.

Camaro509 09-29-2009 10:12 AM

Put some dielectric grease on the threads, they won't bond/fuse together.

1camaro70 09-29-2009 02:39 PM

check if they are really chromed plastic, not metal, It is from galvanic action of dissimiliar metals, anything plastic is fine.


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