Drastically improve your cars handling for 20p

[Murphy The Cat]

Make sure that your tyres are inflated properly !!!

When my new tyres were fitted on Friday, the fitters had only put 31 psi in all round (thanks guys ) and it took me a day and a half to get them inflated to the proper reading of 36 psi.

Once they were done, what a revelation - I was really, really surprised at how much better the car handled when they were inflated properly. It's really obvious (now that I've done it), but for anyone who doesn't check them to often (or inflates them to 36psi when they're warm) it makes a cracking difference.



p.s. from the EVIC tyre pressure gauge, the tyre pressures on Arnie start to increase after only half a mile.

[FIXER]

Great to see your still out there enjoying your deisel C, Dave in Ft Myers

[Murphy The Cat]

Originally Posted by FIXER

Great to see your still out there enjoying your deisel C, Dave in Ft Myers

Hi Dave

yeah, I'm still loving it -- & I still wonder about how much fun I would have with your SRT8 if it was in the UK !!

[devilmaycare]

Thanks for the tip, MTC.
I've just checked my tyres (cold) at 31psi (2.2bar on EVIC). I was assuming that the EVIC would warn me if pressures were too low, but obviously its not as sensitive as I imagined. Having read the manual again on this topic, it is clear that the EVIC will only warn of "significant" under-inflation, which presumably is not 31psi. So tomorrow its an exercise session with the footpump. Maybe my mpg will increase and my waistline decrease! I've just returned 37mpg over a 500 mile round trip to the Northwest, which isn't bad, but still short of your 40 mpg.

[Murphy The Cat]

Originally Posted by devilmaycare

Thanks for the tip, MTC.
I've just checked my tyres (cold) at 31psi (2.2bar on EVIC). I was assuming that the EVIC would warn me if pressures were too low, but obviously its not as sensitive as I imagined. Having read the manual again on this topic, it is clear that the EVIC will only warn of "significant" under-inflation, which presumably is not 31psi. So tomorrow its an exercise session with the footpump. Maybe my mpg will increase and my waistline decrease! I've just returned 37mpg over a 500 mile round trip to the Northwest, which isn't bad, but still short of your 40 mpg.

it certainly won't increase your fuel consumption, plus you should find that ride improves enormously.

[wildmark]

Originally Posted by Murphy The Cat

Hi Dave

yeah, I'm still loving it -- & I still wonder about how much fun I would have with your SRT8 if it was in the UK !!

It would give all the scooby and mitsi boys a good as$$ kicking...

Where abouts in the Lake District are you, that was my territory up until I moved to Florida at the beginning of the year?

Mark

[Murphy The Cat]

Originally Posted by wildmark

It would give all the scooby and mitsi boys a good as$$ kicking...

Where abouts in the Lake District are you, that was my territory up until I moved to Florida at the beginning of the year?

Mark

Hi Mark

I'm working out of Kendal in the South of the Lake District -- I'll bet you a pint of Hawkshead beer that its colder over here than it is in Florida at the moment !

[wildmark]

Originally Posted by Murphy The Cat

Hi Mark

I'm working out of Kendal in the South of the Lake District -- I'll bet you a pint of Hawkshead beer that its colder over here than it is in Florida at the moment !

I know Kendal well, the weather here is perfect, we have just had two weeks of 90% humidity which is awful, now its in the high 80's zero humidity...just like the med in summer... the reason we moved here!!!

Mark

[UK CHRYSLER 300C]

Im off up that end of the country for a week,hope the weather stays nice

[Rgr]

Originally Posted by devilmaycare

Thanks for the tip, MTC.
I've just checked my tyres (cold) at 31psi (2.2bar on EVIC). I was assuming that the EVIC would warn me if pressures were too low, but obviously its not as sensitive as I imagined. Having read the manual again on this topic, it is clear that the EVIC will only warn of "significant" under-inflation, which presumably is not 31psi.

I regularly check my tyres with a digital guage. Problem is the guage only shows psi and the EVIC only bar. So the tyres are 36psi when cold and 2.4 on the EVIC after about 5 miles driving. But after some 100 miles the EVIC is up to about 2.6 or 2.7. Its back to 2.4 when the tyres are cold again. I guess this is as it should be? I've never had to worry about this on previous cars because I didn't have an EVIC to tell me how hot my tyres got!