11-21-2016, 08:22 PM | #15 |
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I can't just put regular air in it can I?
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11-21-2016, 08:52 PM | #16 |
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Yes you can put air in a tire filled with nitrogen. It will not hurt anything. If you take your car to a tire place to have the air topped off 9 times out of 10 they will put compressed air into it even with green caps.
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11-21-2016, 11:20 PM | #18 |
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Check your tire pressure with a normal tire pressure gauge. If the sensors are off, there is your problem. FYI, my tire sensors are about 3 pounds under reading.
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11-22-2016, 10:30 AM | #19 |
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Absolutely you can.
All you'll be doing is reducing the nitrogen concentration down from about 95% - 98% that's about as good as a N2 fill can get down toward the 78% N2 that is the atmospheric content. IOW, the presence of nitrogen is not an all-or-nothing thing but varies between 'mostly' and 'almost entirely'. Most likely, a little moisture will be introduced because most 'regular air' stations and consumer-level compressors do not feature air dryers. This will affect the amount of pressure gain with tire operating temperature slightly. In and of itself, moisture isn't going to be harmful over however many years/miles/number of cold to hot to cold cycles that you are able to get out of the same tires. On the matter of erratic TPMS-measured readings, for now I'd just use a manual pressure gauge on the tire having the erratic readings, and maybe the opposite-side tire as a check. Norm
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I think there's more to that relearn feature. believe there is a certain tool that needs to be used in conjunction with it. My TPMS went out after using that one time. All four tires read "--". Being one that doesn't really trust the reading, I just ignored it as I check the pressure the old fashioned way. When I went to have a leaking tire changed, (valve stem), I asked the dealer to check the system. It works now and I know they didn't change them out, I wasn't there long enough for that. And yes, change of season has a huge effect on tire pressures. |
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11-22-2016, 11:23 AM | #21 |
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Discount tire has a relearn tool they just hold next to each valve stem to reset. I imagine dealer uses something similar
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11-22-2016, 11:36 AM | #22 | |
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The reason they changed to the tool is because when the vehicles are packed in like sardines one sensor could become connected to the wrong vehicle. That caused all kinds of havoc. The new sensors are now encrypted.
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11-22-2016, 08:31 PM | #25 |
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Ok. I bought another tire pressure gauge. The front passenger was so low that it didn't even register. So I took all the caps off and filled them to 39 PSI. All were low, but not like the front one as stated. I have been running around 30 PSI this whole time and wondered why I was getting horrible mileage. The DIC read 32 all around when I bought it through Certified Chevy dealership. So, I ASSumed that was what it was suppose to be. Anyway. hopefully I don't have a nail in the tire or leak. Can't afford tires this time of year......
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11-23-2016, 06:02 AM | #26 |
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Small punctures can be repaired at little cost. Almost $0 per repair if you're OK with doing your own plug repair.
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There's also a pretty good chance the sidewall of that tire is now ruined if you drove it very far with that little pressure in it. You may very well end up replacing at least one tire if they were run that low. Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk
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