On 11/07/2014 9:58 AM, SMS wrote:
On 11/5/2014 3:11 PM, dpb wrote:
On 11/05/2014 4:25 PM, wrote:
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Up to $2.50 per tire extra for nitrogen fill can be rationalized. Any
more is highway robbery.
"Rationalized" on basis of dealer cost, maybe, but I can't see there's
anything close to the payback possible for an ordinary passenger car
tire on an automobile driven routinely.
What minimal advantages there are really only accrue for extremely long
intervals between changes such as collector or antique vehicles or very
specialized applications such as racing or hazard duty where the
flammability in accident might conceivably be an added risk.
Otherwise, just nothing that it does is sufficient to make any
discernible difference in the bottom line to the end user.
Not true. There is a discernible advantage, but not one that is worth
paying anything extra for. Just never buy tires at a retailer that does
not include nitrogen inflation at no extra charge.
Nonsense.
There is no such place in the county here, even, what more town. I
doubt there's a place within 300 miles (well, _perhaps_ there's a Costco
in Amarillo; I don't know--that'd be just under 200; there's _not_ one
in Wichita so KC and Denver would be the two closest places I'd be sure
of for them. I've never seen any other tire distributor/retailer around
here offer it gratis.
Plus, living on rural dirt roads where flats are a routine occurrence
it'd raise the cost of a flat repair by ridiculous amount. One of the
major distributors/retailer here in town did begin touting it a few
years ago but have given it up as just not worth the hassle;
afaik none
of the others ever bothered. I've not heard Clingan's run the ad about
it in since forever it seems...
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