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Old 11-03-2010 | 06:45 PM
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Well as the wheel rolls on!
Coming home today our ET just did not fill right Like a flat tire!.
so we were the tire shop & pulled in to have it checked out?
As it has gone before the Dealer (said) We put Nitrogen in all Huyndai's!
well the tire shop checked the tires & said the tire light came on becouse of low air in them- it was at 25 lbs &26 for the high one, that is why the light came on ! They should be 32lbs. I said we have Nitrogen in the tires & should that not happen??
Well the dealer got you he said there are no green caps & there is no way to be sure if they did put it in??
He filled up the tires & all is (ok)
 
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Old 11-03-2010 | 07:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Rontier
....Well the dealer got you he said there are no green caps & there is no way to be sure if they did put it in??
He filled up the tires & all is (ok)
Ron: Green caps=Nitrogen filled? News to me and do not know if it is good news. I have green caps.
 
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Old 11-04-2010 | 07:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Rontier
Well as the wheel rolls on!
Coming home today our ET just did not fill right Like a flat tire!.
so we were the tire shop & pulled in to have it checked out?
As it has gone before the Dealer (said) We put Nitrogen in all Huyndai's!
well the tire shop checked the tires & said the tire light came on becouse of low air in them- it was at 25 lbs &26 for the high one, that is why the light came on ! They should be 32lbs. I said we have Nitrogen in the tires & should that not happen??
Well the dealer got you he said there are no green caps & there is no way to be sure if they did put it in??
He filled up the tires & all is (ok)
What is the weather like where you live? As in the temperature? Tires will drop 1-psi in pressure for every 10-deg F (5-deg C) drop in temperature. So if it's in the 30's F (like it is here) and the last time you check the tires it was in the 80's F (summer time), that's a 50-deg F drop and would cause a 5-psi drop in pressure (32 - 5 = 27-psi). It's not a loss of air, it's a drop in pressure because pressure and temps are related.

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Ron: Green caps=Nitrogen filled? News to me and do not know if it is good news. I have green caps.
That is correct. Green caps means the tires are filled with nitrogen.

FYI, you get little to no benefit with nitrogen on a street car. Don't waste your money on nitrogen. "Regular air" is 78% nitrogen already. If you can get nitrogen for free, then go ahead but don't pay for it. It's wasted money.
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/car...nitrogen-.html
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete...jsp?techid=191
 
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Old 11-04-2010 | 06:10 PM
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That is what I was thinking, thanks for the input!
I don't know what they charge up it ont cheep, & my caps are silver in color.
& the coldest it has been is 47% with a high of 70%.
with the tires at 25 psi, I'll pass that 78% on to my Dealer??
& not pay for it anyway.
Thanks again
Ron
 
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