Website that lists max. pressures for tyres?

Ultrasonic

Lum wrote: »

Overinflated (or under inflated) tyres wear out faster, so as well as being unsafe you'll need to be replacing them a lot sooner, which will probably wipe out your fuel savings in doing that.

For what it's worth, I've read posts from various people on forums like ecomodder that claim that hyperinflating modern tyres doesn't seem to show the increased central wear that conventional wisdom suggests. They tend to hypothesise that the structure of modern tyres is such that they don't deform as readily as older tyres. I have no personal experience so can't comment on the validity of either statement though. And nor am I about to start hyperinflating my tyres - for safety reasons, and arguably financial reasons since having crash would be expensive .

Lum

So if the tyres don't wear any quicker, that means certain people here, the ones who post about how it's fine to buy Linglongs because every vehicle handling problem ever can be solved by simply driving to the conditions, will be trying this.

I look forward to seeing the results of driving around on overinflated Linglongs, so long as there were no people around at the time.

Ultrasonic

Lum wrote: »

So if the tyres don't wear any quicker...

It's worse than you think - the usual claim is that hyperinflated tyres actually wear more slowly... But I am absolutely NOT advocating this!

gkerr4

i run my tires in the upper end of the given range for the most period - on my current 5-series with 19"rims that range is 2.6 - 3.2 bar - or 39 - 46PSI (rear) - i try to run them at 44PSI - there is generally only me in the car and i do about 25000 a year - i find i get the best combination of MPG and tyre wear at this level - my last car (a 330d BMW with 18's) i got 28,000 miles out of them which isn't bad for a 240bhp car.

gkerr4

Ultrasonic wrote: »

It's worse than you think - the usual claim is that hyperinflated tyres actually wear more slowly... But I am absolutely NOT advocating this!

interesting - i didn't see your post before submitting my own - guess as i am still in the manufacturers range (BMW if not good year) that i am 'not' classed as a hyper inflator ?

Ultrasonic

gkerr4 wrote: »

interesting - i didn't see your post before submitting my own - guess as i am still in the manufacturers range (BMW if not good year) that i am 'not' classed as a hyper inflator ?

I just used the term 'hyperinflated' as I couldn't be bothered to keep saying higher than manufacturer recommended pressures, I wasn't meaning it to sound particularly pejorative if you took it that way.

You may be interested in this other thread of mine if you haven't seen it:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4561037