What have you done to your mk4 (golf/bora) today?

[Treza360]

Wheel balance, rotation and nitrogen filled.
Cheers,
Trent

[bujna]

Does the nitrogen simply end up being a little lighter or does it help in some other way?

[h100vw]

Its supposed to be more stable with regards to heat and pressure changes in the tyre.
They use it in commercial aircraft tyres as it is inert, in case of punctures.

Gavin

[Treza360]

Does the nitrogen simply end up being a little lighter or does it help in some other way?

As per what Gavin said. Also the nitrogen molecules are much bigger than normal oxygen/air molecules therefore it escapes from the tyre much slower and you don't need to top up your pressures as often.

http://www.jaxquickfit.com.au/tyre-nitrogen.htm

Cheers,
Trent

[kaneda]

After not touching the golf for a little while I changed the plugs n fuel filter and cleared some fault codes...... going to try n finnish putting the coilovers in thisweekend too as i did the rears a while back but never got round to doing the fronts

[bujna]

That sounds pretty beneficial. What does Jax charge for the nitrogen inflation?

[Treza360]

That sounds pretty beneficial. What does Jax charge for the nitrogen inflation?

$7 a tyre. Not sure how much they charge for a top up.
Cheers,
Trent

[Mr. JLT]

I put some hids in the R today..

[thekraut]

Gave it a gooooooooood once over



Apologies for the quality - didn't have my camera with me!

[sir_camel]

Man i love the Blue ones. Need to start liking silver more though...

I 'thought' about doing the flapper mod today. Maybe tomorrow.

[dylan8]

o2 sensor in, and car runs a treat. No lag or excessive fuel usage

[Manaz]

Nitrogen is used in aircraft tyres because they suffer extremes of temperature in a very short period of time - if you put a plane weighing 100s of tonnes onto the ground at 300km/h, and the tyres go from cold (the plane's been up at 30,000') to hot very quickly, and the lower level of expansion in the tyres is VERY useful in that instance.

I'm pretty sure the lower migration rate through the tyre is a myth - regular air is something around 78% nitrogen gas anyway.

Most places that charge you for nitrogen will do free checks/refills (which is only fair since you have to pay for it to start with, and you can't go top up for free at a service station).

Just remember - anyone selling Nitrogen for tyres is going to tell you that it's good, since they stand to make money out of it!

[kaneda]

After fitting some coilovers and some spacers for the rear wheels i had a local VW kungfoo ninja priest bless the car with his Uber pink power of awsomness

[Treza360]

After fitting some coilovers and some spacers for the rear wheels i had a local VW kungfoo ninja priest bless the car with his Uber pink power of awsomness
http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/9947/95701703.gif

Plus a few puffs of the wacky tobaccy too maybe hey?

[h100vw]

Nice. Can you get that on the internet?

After fitting some coilovers and some spacers for the rear wheels i had a local VW kungfoo ninja priest bless the car with his Uber pink power of awsomness