Tyres over inflated. Does it matter?

*walks away stunned...

Asking if 60psi is ok beggars belief, and it sickens me to think of the cretins driving around on the roads who are so utterly clueless on such important details.

However, Bug One is correct; the construction of modern radial tyres resists ballooning in the middle of the tread unlike old crossply tyres. That said, at getting on for double the recommended pressure it wouldn't surprise me if it did distort the carcass.
 
lol while on the topic of tyres and inflation. I just saw on facebook this girl update her status:

Tamping raging fuming! what do I do if I have a flat tyre? :(

lol xD and then the comments start with "pump it up" etc etc, and she says "even if it's proper flat". eventually her brother had commented saying to put on the spare or ring their mate.

lol....I still wonder how she passed her test.... within months of driving she was drink driving giving people lifts from parties and stuff, here mate was telling me as they had a falling out because my friend wouldn't get a lift home with her drunk mate driving... o.O says a lot really about some people :p
 
I wait till a little sign light's up on dash and says pump up your tyres you idiot.

32psi is mine but I think it depends on what tyres you have on - at manufactures pressure on OEM fitted tyres they looked like they were wearing in centres so reduced them by 2 psi.

Not sure yet on new Dunlop Maxx RT's

Dave
 
Going over Max sidewall psi seems like asking for trouble. Speaking of which, my Tokyo Proxes CF2 don't show Max PSI. I know it's required for the American market. Not here I guess?
 
DANGEROUS!
It'll be less comfortable, have a massively reduced contact patch, the tyre will be bouncing off the road more reducing grip, more chance of a blowout at high speed. As already said, the middle will wear out quick too.
 
I remember an episode of myth buster where they tested a car tyre. Took over 90psi before it blew.

Sitting still, but add bumps in the road, 1.5 ton of car and the heat generated from actually driving on it and you'll soon find it'll burst far sooner thank 90psi
 
No it doesn't matter. The tyre pressures in the handbook are just a bunch of random numbers made up my whoever can fit the most peanuts in their mouth.


If you think about it for a moment, That is probabally a lot closer to the truth than you might (At first thought) think! :p

What I mean about that is, that tyre presure is not, in normal day to day driving, a particularly precise requirement There is a huge margin factored in anyway (To allow for varying load conditions, climate etc) and the actual running pressures day-to-day will be all over the place depending on the weather and the type of driving that you are doing. (Think combined gas law!)

In the absence of any better data, 30 all round would be just fine for any normal car, with a bit more in the back if you are taking the whole family on holiday!

Obviously stupidly high pressures or flat would be bad, as would having significantly different pressures on each side of the same axle, but provided you avoid these obvious extremes the pressures you run at wont actually make that much difference!

Now, I am sure that in highly specialised and extreme environment such as F1 (where the difference between winning and losing is measured in milliseconds) that all these things are taken account of and that the pressures on the day will be calculated using data on air temp, track tarmac temperature even altitude (And other things besides no doubt)

But for any normal day to day driving the "OMGz My Tyres are out by 2psi" is nonsense!
 
We have overlooked the one other element in this big equation and that's the pressure guage. The most accurate guages are (suprizingly for many) usually the cheap little digital variety found for sale at a few pounds in most decent stations. I do use the term 'accurate' with care because when it comes to it, the business of actually obtaining a reading is in itself an error prone business with forecourt air line guages, and air line guages are often not accurate (can easily be plus or minus 5 psi out of true). And the very LAST air line I would trust for an accurate reading are those where you're supposed to key in a pre deterined pressure, pop the line on and the machine supposedly does the rest. Those things need to be blown off the surface of the planet.

I suspect that good advice to drivers would be make sure you double check the pressure reading with a digital guage, and make sure when you take a reading that it is proper ie: cap off, guage on, then held for a good moment and off with the most minimal hiss- usually works well. Always have a digital guage in the glove box and take it out with you when you're checking the tyres.
 
And the very LAST air line I would trust for an accurate reading are those where you're supposed to key in a pre deterined pressure, pop the line on and the machine supposedly does the rest. Those things need to be blown off the surface of the planet.

Why? I ask because I have heard this statement lots of times before. However no ones ever really given a good reason to back up why they are inaccurate.

I use several of these types of air lines at various local garages. and they've always proved to be absolutely bob-on with the pressure I requested, when compared with both a dedicated pressure gauge after use, and also with each other.
 
Why? I ask because I have heard this statement lots of times before. However no ones ever really given a good reason to back up why they are inaccurate.

I use several of these types of air lines at various local garages. and they've always proved to be absolutely bob-on with the pressure I requested, when compared with both a dedicated pressure gauge after use, and also with each other.

How have you varified that they are 'bob on' exactly?
 
How have you varified that they are 'bob on' exactly?

I use several of these types of air lines at various local garages. and they've always proved to be absolutely bob-on with the pressure I requested, when compared with both a dedicated pressure gauge after use, and also with each other.

Checked after use with a pen pressure gauge, against each other, and also against a spare foot pump. Never found any sort of discrepancy.
 
Checked after use with a pen pressure gauge, against each other, and also against a spare foot pump. Never found any sort of discrepancy.

If any of your guages are digital then that's a good thing isn't it. Your area must be decent in that respect. :)

However that is definately not the case around Shropshire or the midlands so much. Besides, what I advised was that double checking with a digital guage will effectively rule out inaccuracies of forecourt air line guages.
 
I can only go from my own experience, I run my astra tyres at 40psi and the centre wore faster than the shoulders on all four corners so I lowered the pressures to 32.

I've had the same experience, running my tyres at the 'fully loaded' setting with one occupant.
 
33 psi at the from and 30 at the back.

All in the manual as per the manufacturers guide with everything else such as oil grade and fuel to use ;)
 
Perhaps there were different wheel options for your model of car, or a previous owner fitted different Oem wheels.

Nope - only two wheel/tyre sizes for my car - 225/50/16 or 235/40/17 - neither of which are listed on there :).
 
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