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Old 06-23-17 | 12:25 AM
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Originally Posted by dabac
2) the pressure changes due to "normal" temperature swings are really, really small.
After my blowout a few weeks ago, I've thought about that some.

PV=nRT, with everything fixed except Pressure, and Temperature in Kelvin, then if your temperature changes by about 50°F, or about 25°C (K), then your pressure in the tire might change by about 10%. Not a huge change, but for a tire at 100 PSI, it could decrease to 90 PSI going from hot to cold, or increase to 110 PSI going from cold to hot.

So, probably not enough to flatten a tire, but perhaps in my case enough to take a tire from the maximum pressure to a few percent over max.
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