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Post by milly on Sept 17, 2019 15:46:43 GMT -5
Today I pulled in local petrol station to do tyres saw this merc convertable and lady using tyre gauge so stuck petrol in scooter paid and wheel scooter to pressure gauge and the garage owner picked up the pump and took it to her car and said to her bit much in here as she walked in shop, he said 60psi should be 35. I best check out one out he said and then asked me to look at the pressure on the gauge 105psi. Lady came out shop and she said what were they. He said ask Milly I said boths fronts were 60 and 105 she giggled and said I not got me glasses and got back in car and drove off. Hope I dont meet her driving about.
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 17, 2019 18:51:53 GMT -5
When my father ran a service station, some guy came up on a bicycle. "Hey bunky, you got an air pump?" "Right over there. Need a gauge?" "I don't need no damn gauge for a bicycle tire." 2 minutes later : POW! "Excuse me sir; do you guys sell tubes?"  |
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Post by ryan_ott on Sept 18, 2019 19:27:35 GMT -5
I run high air pressure in my truck but not that high. That’s dangerous. I’m just trying to get slightly better then 10mpg.
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Post by harleyracer59 on Sept 18, 2019 20:35:52 GMT -5
im amused that people will look on a tire for the max psi and fill them up to that psi.... you should always look in the door jam for that vehicles proper tire pressure. tires are universal and can go one a lot of different vehicles. back in the late 90s early 2000s, ford exploders were being rolled all over the US. firestone got blamed, ford helped point the finger. when the dust settled, the actual issue was operator error. they were filling tires to 60psi (max psi on a wilderness h/t) but in the door jam ford was recommending 28psi, people were rolling their brand new suv because they were over inflating tires 2x the recommended psi. the sidewalls were too stiff and had no give on a vehicle with a high center of gravity, that's a bad recipe. and all manufactures were relieved their products weren't liable. then instead of informing the public of the real cause, the swept it all under the rug and forgot about it as quick as possible. and people are still overinflating tires, and im waiting for history to repeat itself. so anyone reading this take note. fill your tires to the vehicles pressure rating not the tires max psi.  |
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Post by 90GTVert on Sept 18, 2019 22:11:57 GMT -5
I can't find the door jambs on my scooter, so I'm guilty of filling rear tires to or near max psi (usually something like 42psi). It helps with speed/acceleration when you're fat. Front just feels too loose like that since it really doesn't have much weight on it in comparison so I stick with 32-36psi normally.
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Post by harleyracer59 on Sept 19, 2019 0:29:34 GMT -5
yeah i hate the ride and feel of my scooters at factory specs also. but i think were ok, i haven't heard of a scooter rolling over while cornering. lol but when theres a vehicle with 4 wheels and can carry passengers, i wouldn't recommend running the tires at max psi.
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Post by FrankenMech on Sept 19, 2019 5:56:35 GMT -5
Many old vehicles don't have a sticker so people just filled to the max psi. Now we can usually look up the old vehicle tire specs on something called the internet... I always ran my old 10 speed tires way over the max spec. The bike shop always deflated them and posted a note on the service ticket. So I always had to reinflate them. I was over my max weight spec back then. I am back in spec now.
I saw many bike tires explode, none if my own. Usually it was kids trying to inflate their own tires.
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