Tire Pressure

[JimS123]

This is about a car tire, so if this is in the wrong forum, mods please move.

Any tire experts out there?

I had a new set of tires installed in August. Didn't check pressure until now - my dash tire warning never sounded. Three tires were ok at normal 35 psi, the fourth was at 51 pounds. Oddly enough, the max pressure on the sidewall was 51#.

Naturally, I corrected it. Should I be concerned?

 

[roscoe]

Yes.
Be concerned that the world is full of too many gadgets and people are forgetting to do routine maintenance and checks. Gadgets can fail.
People can fail. Rookies at the tire shop can fail.

 

[JimS123]

What i meant was should i be concerned that the tire may have been damaged.

 

[Scott06]

What i meant was should i be concerned that the tire may have been damaged.

Over inflation can result in premature wear in center of tread, if you don't see more wear/less remaining tread depth down the middle of tire I wouldn't worry about it

overinflation - PakWheels Blog

www.pakwheels.com

 

[Drcoffee]

Installed in August, no you will be fine. Probably got better gas mileage recently. LOL

 

[matt167]

I work at a highly regarded tire shop.. The max pressure is listed for a cold tire, so your fine. zero damage beyond accelerated treadwear.

It's one reason why my shop sets the pressures correctly with a digital inflator after the tires are bolted on the vehicle.

 

[dingbat]

one reason why my shop sets the pressures correctly with a digital inflator after the tires are bolted on the vehicle.

Pretty useless endeavor unless the gauge has recently been certified (accuracy) and is temperature compensated.

 

[JimS123]

Pretty useless endeavor unless the gauge has recently been certified (accuracy) and is temperature compensated.

A tire pressure of 51# when the spec was 33, plus the fact that only 1 tire was involved smells like something other than tire gauge accuracy.

 

[dingbat]

A tire pressure of 51# when the spec was 33, plus the fact that only 1 tire was involved smells like something other than tire gauge accuracy.

Some screwed up.
Truck tire by chance?

My comment was related to “digital meters” after tires on vehicle as overkill

 

[Scott Danforth]

the fourth was at 51 pounds. Oddly enough, the max pressure on the sidewall was 51#.

51 psi on a tire rated at 51psi

your fine...... drink a beer, go boating

 

[JimS123]

51 psi on a tire rated at 51psi

your fine...... drink a beer, go boating

Yeah right. Thanks, but the weather forecast is for snow. I won't drink A beer, but I might have several...

 

[T/O]

The dash warning light is for low pressure not high

 

[Scott Danforth]

Yeah right. Thanks, but the weather forecast is for snow. I won't drink A beer, but I might have several...

you can keep the snow. too many people out there that never learned to drive in snow with a manual trans/v8/rear drive while saying "hold my beer" and it shows....

 

[Alumarine]

you can keep the snow. too many people out there that never learned to drive in snow with a manual trans/v8/rear drive while saying "hold my beer" and it shows....

And doing that with rock hard nylon summer tires at -25 too.
I think that's when drifting was invented.

 

[JimS123]

you can keep the snow. too many people out there that never learned to drive in snow with a manual trans/v8/rear drive while saying "hold my beer" and it shows....

RWD land yachts with V8 and 4 on the floor. Been doing it for 55+ years. Not a problem. Now with all season tires and AWD and the snow only bothers the woosies. The worst drivers are kids with 4WD pickemups that think they know it all.

No hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and plenty to do all year round.

 

[Scott Danforth]

RWD land yachts with V8 and 4 on the floor. Been doing it for 55+ years. Not a problem. Now with all season tires and AWD and the snow only bothers the woosies. The worst drivers are kids with 4WD pickemups that think they know it all.

No hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and plenty to do all year round.

my favorite winter vehicle was an RX7 with a transplanted 3.4 V6 from a camaro. Ran Dunlop Graspic DS1's it actually out-handled the Minnesota state patrol on icy roads with their over-priced blizzaks. second favorite was a modified Audi Q90 running Graspic DS1's with the rear diff control by-passed for full manual control and a 50mm suspension lift. could plow thru 14" before loosing traction

Keep in mind, the other drivers are still on "non-seasons" holding their phone and never learned to drive

 

[matt167]

Pretty useless endeavor unless the gauge has recently been certified (accuracy) and is temperature compensated.

It's not useless at all with our operation. We operate 2 bays with 4 tire machines, so there are 4 Snap On digital tire gauges, one for each machine, and even they read differently within .5 PSI or so... With the one gauge, the customer can look at their dash read out and see that they are all equal. Also with cars like VW and Honda not using a TPMS sensor and instead using the ABS sensors, some are so sensitive that .5 PSI variance will cause the light to come on..

All the gauges/ inflators we use are supposed to be "certified" to within 2% ( or 0.2% I can't remember ) accuracy,

 

[matt167]

The dash warning light is for low pressure not high

Some models do have a high pressure threshold and will turn on the light for it as well.