Well maybe you should re-evaluate your chosen career path as you clearly don't have a clue if you're having to resort to an internet forum with regards to something pretty basic.
Wider lower profile tyres = lower pressure?
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Well maybe you should re-evaluate your chosen career path as you clearly don't have a clue if you're having to resort to an internet forum with regards to something pretty basic.
and what career path am i on at the moment?
i am pretty sure you don't have enough information to evaluate my career path for me.
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i have allways been told to run around 27-28 so once they warm up and the air expands they go just above 30.
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Well we know you fit wheels/tyres, dont know about pressure and don't really understand rolling radius. Thats enough for us to make a guess that if thats your job, it's time for a new one.
People like you are the problem with the motor trade - bodge it and it'll be alright. Great, thanks. It's the reason most people wont trust a garage as far as they can throw them and why lots of honest, independant garages find it hard to make any money.
I think what sums you up the best is your comment that its 'not your problem how much his speedo is out by'. It quite frankly is if money is changing hands for a professional service
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195/60/R15 is Ford Focus sizes.
Same as mine.
Wouldn't dream of putting 19's on it tho!!!
Same as mine.
Wouldn't dream of putting 19's on it tho!!!
Christ where is it you work?
As said, pressure is pressure, changing the wheel size has no bearing on the air pressure within a tyre, you set it to the same as you normally would as this is the manufacturers recommended pressure to hold the weight of the car etc, or something like that.
To be fair, it isn't necessarily his responsibility to make sure the customer knows about things like speedo inaccuracies. Sure it'd be nice if he did mention it, but if you're going to move from 15inch wheels to 19inch wheels and haven't done any research as to the effects on the car, it's your own fault.
However, if you're a professional tyre fitter and you don't know that the tyre pressures are the same no matter what the profile of the tyre is, there is something wrong.
Do you? i thought i already said you were all way off the mark regarding my job. I don't fit tyres or wheels. I understand plenty about rolling radii and suchlike.[TW]Fox;11338227 said:
but don't let an absense of real evidence get in the way of expressing your opinion. if it makes you feel smug and superior to denounce someones work on a forum then go for it.
i deliberately held back most of the facts from my original post because i though this might happen.
but thankfully i can just sit back and observe these stupid snide posts safe in the knowledge that you are all so far off the mark that it doesn't really affect me.
i know these kinds of threads are a sport for some people. infact i have contributed to some myself and probably will again. but it is a bit of an eye opener to be on the other side for once. now i can see how it's possible for some people to draw all sorts of conclusions from very few facts, all in the interests of making themselves feel smug and important.
People like you are the problem with the motor trade - bodge it and it'll be alright. Great, thanks. It's the reason most people wont trust a garage as far as they can throw them and why lots of honest, independant garages find it hard to make any money.
I think what sums you up the best is your comment that its 'not your problem how much his speedo is out by'. It quite frankly is if money is changing hands for a professional service
thanks for summing me up for everyone else's benifit. i'm sure it helped.
and as i already said, merely stating it isn't enough. it needs to be qualified somehow.
i was hoping to find either a formula to convert the pressure or find out what the industry standard was.
seems like the consensus is that you leave them the same but i am still not sure about that without finding some more sources.
Well, far be it for me to suggest something sensible but you do have the whole of the internet at your disposal - not just this forum
Or have you already searched and not found the confirmation you're looking for?Going to head slightly OT a second - regarding your job. All we have to go on in this thread is what you've told us.....which isn't much. And in the absence of anything else, you painted the picture of someone who didn't have a clue what he was up to. So getting all riled up because of posts like the ones Confused and [TW]Fox made does seem a tiny bit silly.
So why were you fitting tyres and wheels to a customers car
I don't think that drawing the conclusion that you are fitting wheels for a customer from the statement 'I am fitting wheels to a customers car' is really THAT far fetched a conclusion.
So what do you do, then? I suspect you'll be all cryptic now becuase I doubt many of us are that far off. If you knew about tyre pressures and rolling radius you wouldnt be asking on overclockers forums which tyre pressures to use on a set of 19's you'd just fitted to a customers car.
Meh fair enough, will bin the engineering degree then as it's obviously of no use
Go look on Wiki or something, I'm sure something there will state it making it true.Meh fair enough, will bin the engineering degree then as it's obviously of no use
So you have an engineering degree, but then how was i supposed to know that?
by qualifying your opinion, i didn't mean, what are your qualifications, i meant say why your opinion should be the one i listen to.
btw i also have an engineering degree, but they didn't cover pneumatic wheels at uni.
Well, far be it for me to suggest something sensible but you do have the whole of the internet at your disposal - not just this forum
I already did look, but i didn't have very long, and i couldn't find the answers i was looking for in the time that i looked.
my job wasn't important to my original post. btw i don't think anyone who has posted in this thread so far really knows the answer anyway, and in the absense of any real answer to the question, they just posted nitpicky snidey comments for fun.
just be honest about it though.
a lot of threads on this forum go the same way. i don't really mind though, it's a bit of fun for the posters and the readers too.
i never said i was fitting tyres to a car. the tyres were already fited to the tyres.[TW]Fox;11340944 said:So why were you fitting tyres and wheels to a customers car
even after i said i wasn't? it's pretty far fetched even then, because i would surely have colleagues to ask? or a supervisor? or maybe it's covered in training? (do tyre fitters get training?)
the fitting of wheels is incidental to my job. cryptic enough for you?
No they don't, they teach you the basic principles behind things to enable you to work things out like this easily
On a more serious note, if you work in this industry isn't there someone where you work that knows this?
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lol @ this thread - all he asked for was bloody tire pressures and yet everyone has a go at him....typical OCUK motors tbh, when will people get off their high horses and actually act like compassionate human beings 