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Old 12-15-2009, 03:31 PM   #35 (permalink)
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Let's take item #1: There are studies that say that increased inflation pressure INCREASES the risk of rollover.
Please, show me them.

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Item #2: Blowout mean rapid air loss - and overheating leads to belt separations - which usually do NOT result in air loss. Theses are 2 separate issues.
Semantic issue. I should have said tire failure instead of blowout. Edited.

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the inflation pressure is limited to a maximum of 35 psi. What happens beyond that? Does the data peak then drop off? This study doesn't say, so we need to be careful to make the distinction that we don't know what happens above 35 psi.
I agree, but whatever happens there will very probably not be a drastic change within 10 psi.
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