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Old 03-28-2008, 01:58 AM   #31 (permalink)
Chris D.
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your not going to wear the chalk out more or less, your still contacting the road, just not as much..

try putting about 15K miles and hitting it with a depth guage..

over time tires relax at the belts due to over pressure, depending on the durametor of the rubber, the centers will wear more..

I fill my tires with nitrogen now because I got a full tank for free from a friend of mine,
so now my tire pressure stays the same unless I get something stuck in my tire..
4 weeks and my pressures stayed the same and we've some tempuature drops recentally with no adverse effects.

Bias ply is a slightly different thing, I'm talking radials.
My grandfather had a buick Century that I would align every 30K and he always ran 65psi (there was no telling him oterwize)

He was a hypermiler before there was even a name for it..

anyways, his tires wore in the centers because of this, the outter edges remained with minimal wear.. Michelin's are known for that tho..

for the uhaul record, I was there picking up a car dolly and the guy there just filled up the tires till they didn't look like they had any sag in em, I asked, no tire guage.. He goes nope, I do this all the time LOL

Penske FTW!

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