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How Inflating Your Tires Saves

Submitted by: frank  06/02/2008 8:42 PM
 
Make sure your tires are properly inflated. Tires that are underinflated reduce the fuel efficiency of the vehicle. In a time when gas prices aren’t cheap, keeping your tires properly inflated can save you big bucks over the long run. You should keep an air pressure gauge in your car at all times and check the tire pressure every couple of months. Air pressure gauges only cost a few dollars and are worth the investment.

In addition to fuel efficiency, keeping tires properly inflated helps you extend the life of your tires (tires that are underinflated can cause problems with the sidewalls as they push out further when underinflated and can eventually blow out as a result).

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I would like to add the you have to be careful, and not overinflate the tires, this will give you a few pennies in your pocket, but the tire will wear faster in the center, and it will bounce more, effectively wrecking the tire and causing uneven wear that will over ride the cost effectiveness of overinflation, read the door label on the vehicle, not the tire itself, this will give you the proper inflation level for the vehicle weight and will also affect ride and handling.
 
Posted by Scott on December 27, 2008 11:08 PM
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I have my oil professionally changed for $28. If I was to do it, it would be $1.50 x 5 oil x $4 filter = $11.50. For the extra $11.50 they check my fluid levels, battery, belts, wires, thread life and so forth. They also fill the tires with nitrogen which changes less with air temperature (they use nitrogen in race cars and airplane tires). One break down will blow any savings by doing it yourself. Besides there is the mess and the time. I've not had a break down in 30 years.
 
Posted by james77777 on March 14, 2009 12:53 AM
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