Miata Mailing List: May 1998, Message #1846

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All this crap about changing air (or even rotating it) is just that... CRAP!!

It doesn't matter whether you use heavy air or light air.  It doesn't matter
if you use wet air or dry air.  It doesn't even matter a sweet darn if you
use real air or synthetic air.  And OEM air... what a non-concept that is.

Like everything else that you listers want to make complicated, choosing tire
air is a non-issue.  What matters most is that you choose exactly the same
kind of tire air for each of you tires.  Don't make the mistake of topping
off a low tire with sea level air when the other three contain pure mountain
air... simply deflate the whole bunch and refill them all.  Failure to
observe this simple rule will result in the dreaded 65 mph shimmy... (and I'm
very surprised that this connection has been overlooked by so many of you
listers who are supposedly "in the know").

YMMV.  ;-)

Charles Kelly wrote:

> Lanny Chambers wrote:
>
> >On 5/14/98 15:08, Dan Scolnick dans@dmscomp.com wrote:
> >
> >>How often should I change the air in my tires?
> >
> >Every 10,000 furlongs should do nicely. But if you *rotate* your tire air
> >every 2,000, it might go another 5k or so. Note that you still need to do
> >this religiously even if you use synthetic air.
> >
>
> Concerning synthetic air, don't change to synthetic air until
> your tires have had a chance to properly break in.
>
> Also be warned that some owners have experienced air leaking when
> changing to synthetic air on cars with high mileage tires.
> Nothing worse than having to put down a rubber mat to keep the
> airdrops from staining the garage floor.
>
> IMO I would still go with synthetic air though, it's darn hard to
> get good quality dino air these days.
>
> Charles Kelly
>
> I do not like green eggs or spam.


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