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10-31-2008, 11:18 PM

Smokey159

Drives: Yaris Liftback

Join Date: Oct 2008

Location: Lexington, KY

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Originally Posted by YarisSedan

Nitrogen is denser than oxygen. Thus harder for it to leak out. With oxygen you loose about 1 pound of air per month slowly from your valve stem. With nitrogen you loose maybe 1 pound every 6 months to a year.

Leak out???? Ummm, you use nitrogen because it is less suseptible to temp change as the tire warms up.

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