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Has anyone experienced higher gas mileage by replacing the air in your car tires with pure nitrogen?
The car dealership where I have my car serviced offers the " Branick Nitrogen Tire Inflation System" for about $10.00 per tire. Increased gas mileage is one of the benefits.
Public Comments
- THAT IS NOT TRUE
- the wheels on the car go BOOM BANG BOOM thanks for the laugh
- You're kidding, I hope!
- I wouldn't spend the money! It's probably a sales gimmick.. Experiments have shown that the tire pressure is the controlling factor in gas mileage rather than the gas used to inflate the tires.
- Yeah sure go ahead!!!!
- not true....my school did a test on that stuff nitrogen in tires and fuel additives, nitrogen in tires...no change fuel additives decrease in hp and loss in fuel economy
- You decide, but it looks true think charging you to much. http://my.is/forums/showthread.php?p=3769028#post3769028 http://www.carkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/car-maintenance/4371/Nitrogen-Filled-Tires http://experts.about.com/q/Tires-2359/Nitrogen-filled-tires.htm http://www.woodalls.com/cforum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/14872995.cfm http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=2399797
- Air is 80% nitrogen
- The only reason is you'll get better gas mileage in the long run because the tires will hold air longer because the nitrogen won't seep out as fast.
- Buy yourself a 7-dollar tire gauge, and when you fill up, make a pit-stop over at the air hose. It'll take you all of 5 minutes to take care of your tires, save you possibly 100's of dollars a year in fuel, and no, you don't need nitrogen. The atmosphere already contains a lot of nitrogen, taking up that last few percent is BS... Interested in a bridge?;) LOL
