Sportivo stock wheels

[CheekySportivo]

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to get an idea on what the recommended and preferred tyre pressure is for the Sportivo stock wheels

Cheers

:D

Edited April 18, 2006 by Cheeky Age

[RedLiner]

32 psi

[NIKICH]

I run 36 psi

[E-Gene]

I believe anything from 33 - 36psi is pretty good.

[BLKRLA]

32PSI for Comfort

36PSI for Control

[MR22ZZ]

I've gone up to 38 :D

[50 lemons]

although not a sportivo, mine was delivered to me with 41 psi in all 5 tires I have since dropped it to 36psi front and rear

[SuperDave]

I ran my stock tyres at 38PSI cold, and 41PSI hot, dependant upon if I checked the pressures after driving around. But I do mainly highway driving. The original owner of my car ran the recommended pressures, hooray for shoulder wear! My new (205/50 16) tyres run at 40PSI cold.

I have always run tyres on all my cars with high pressure, the car feels so much better to drive, better economy and wear is more even for me.

Edited April 19, 2006 by SuperDave

[iniff]

yeah i run pretty high pressures too.

[BLKRLA]

I ran my stock tyres at 38PSI cold, and 41PSI hot, dependant upon if I checked the pressures after driving around. But I do mainly highway driving. The original owner of my car ran the recommended pressures, hooray for shoulder wear! My new (205/4? 16) tyres run at 40PSI cold.

I have always run tyres on all my cars with high pressure, the car feels so much better to drive, better economy and wear is more even for me.

I run my tyres normally at 38PSI for exactly the reason you have stated, HEAPS BETTER TYRE WEAR. Funny thing is everytime I take my car somewhere for Mechaincal work of any kind whoever works on the car reduces them to 32PSI & then they dont tell me they have made a change. One time I asked why they do this & the answer was

"YOU WILL GET BETTER TYRE WEAR"

The funny things is that My Brother has a Sportivo that he runs the same tyres on but he leaves them at 32PSI. His tyres are showing considerable wear on the outside edges at the 10k mark where mine are 30k old & show far less wear & I drive a lot harder than what my brother does.

Im my opinon its better to have higher pressure.

[E-Gene]

32PSI for Comfort

36PSI for Control

Should it be the other way round. Cos at 32psi you have more contact with the road.

[BLKRLA]

32PSI gives a softer ride as the side wall can compress more

36PSI doesn't allow as much compression so the ride will be slightly harder but your turn in response will improve dramtacially as well as other improvements.

Give it a go & see for yourself