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Originally Posted by mav1178
About the only good thing that filling it with nitrogen does, is that it is usually with zero moisture.
This ensures the least amount of tire pressure change as temperatures change.
-alex
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Originally Posted by Tcoat
And if they do mix air with it don't panic. It just means you have air mixed with the nitrogen and that has zero effect since air is 78% nitrogen anyway. Nitrogen filled tires are a huge rip off.
Now if they would fill them with helium and make the car lighter.
For god sake do not fill them with hydrogen though.
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mav1178 has it right, nitrogen makes a difference when the tires are at temperature swings, nitrogen doesn't readily get effected by temperatures. In fact nissan made a big deal when the GT-R came out about how they filled the tires with pure nitrogen because normal air was too "unstable". It would probably only ever make a difference in that situation because they are constantly recording data on the nurburgring trying to aim for consistency with variables and such.
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