Tire Pressure Max

[PetersRedYaris]

Originally Posted by BailOut

By the way, Peter, I'm not angry. Disappointed at the lack of understanding and exasperated with some of the attitudes perhaps, but not angry.

OK, my bad.

I looked at your signiture. You drive 27 mile trips at 41-45 MPH, no wonder your mileage is so high. Drop the E10 fuel and use 100% gasoline and you could do even better.

[BailOut]

Originally Posted by PetersRedYaris

OK, my bad.

I looked at your signiture. You drive 27 mile trips at 41-45 MPH, no wonder your mileage is so high. Drop the E10 fuel and use 100% gasoline and you could do even better.

The trip distance includes 16.5 miles of climbing 4,500 vertical feet on the way to work and 7.5 miles of climbing 2,500 vertical feet on the way home. The mountain road peaks at 8,900 feet, has several low-speed cutbacks and is crawling with tourists.

That is my average speed between city, highway and mountain driving. If you track your own average speed using something like a ScanGauge I bet yours would be about the same. Most folk's average speed numbers are between 35 and 45 MPH.

Don't forget that it takes 3x the fuel to climb a mountain as it does to drive on a flat surface, and that I can't make up all of that fuel on the way back down. Trust me, the mileage numbers I'm turning out do not happen by themselves and would be much, much higher if I had a climb-less commute at a lower altitude.

As for the E10 fuel I do not have the ability to drop it. Nevada, like California, uses E10 all year round with a special winter reformulation of it between 10/1 and 1/31 every year (which drops our MPG even more). My Yaris has never known straight gasoline so I wouldn't even know what to expect from it.

[Moose]

I cannot believe that I am reading this- crazy is all I can say.

Listen, I won't list all of the automotive-industry reasons why not to do this, as they have already been listed in one form or another.

I will say this, though- one of the wheeled vehicle maintenance men for my battalion was killed in Iraq when he overinflated a Humvee tire. The tire blew apart and, literally, took the top of his head off. The Army has instituted "tire inflation cages" for this reason alone. Humvee tires are alot tougher than the POS Bridgestones on these cars, too.

I think it is rediculous that you would want to risk your life and the life of others around you for a few miles per gallon.