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Originally Posted by EcoCivic
Ok, but the recommended pressure is for the average person who just wants a smooth ride. Rhat about people like me who don't care about a "smooth comfortable ride" and just care about stopping distance, handling, tire wear and gas mileage?
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In Oz at least most car advertising is pushing the performance and handling of the car, I don't think I've ever seen advertising about ride comfort so I'd doubt that is the case. If car makers thought they could get performance gains by raising tyre pressure they would.
I still believe in real world conditions where roads aren't smooth, placard pressure give the best grip even if it doesn't feel as sporty.
Manufactures often set different pressures between front and rear tyres so telling people to set all there tyres to max sidewall will upset the balance of the car. You may change the car from a nice progressive understeer when traction is lost to tail happy.
I think if we are going to recommend people increase there tyre pressure we should tell them to do it in 5psi increments above placard keeping the balance between front and rear so they can see if there are any adverse affects on handling rather than one big change.
Unfortunately you never know how much you have affected things until you have an emergency. Then you may have to explain to the police why your tyre pressures where so much higher than manufactures recommendations .