How far can a car be driven before the tyres are no longer "cold"...

Stupid question. Ambient temperature,speed/road friction, rubber compound (soft-hard). Way to many variables imho.
 
2.36533km in winter, 1.87434 km in summer. Only applicable to the southern hemisphere though. Google for northern hemisphere.
 
You being serious?

There is no easy answer to your question!
 
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Jamal said:
ponder, it is you who are the dumb twit. This isn't rocket science. There aren't "many variables" except for you. You mock a simple question the answer of which is beyond your comprehension.
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Are you trolling or just being obtuse? A Gary Larson cartoon about about Amoebas would go down well now.
 
Jamal said:
My question is serious and I can't understand why you are mocking it.
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Because your question has no real answer. Have you not noticed all the other replies? THERE ARE TO MANY VARIABLES INVOLVED TO GIVE YOU A CORRECT ANSWER, I'M NOT FSCKING WITH YOU, I'M BEING HONEST AND SINCERE!!!
 
This thread is hilarious! Thanks for the laughs guys!! :D:D

I only check my tyres when they are cold, and then I have a foot pump in the garage to adjust accordingly - maybe the OP should buy a foot pump and a Tyre Pressure Gauge, then he will know that his tyres are cold when he pumps them :p
 
Easiest is to do it after you go to a mall with a garage next to it. So do your shopping etc. and go to garage after to check pressure.
 
common scene to apply here. Remember if you got nitro in side then only nitro.

Same rules apply to oil checking.
 
ponder said:
Because your question has no real answer. Have you not noticed all the other replies? THERE ARE TO MANY VARIABLES INVOLVED TO GIVE YOU A CORRECT ANSWER, I'M NOT FSCKING WITH YOU, I'M BEING HONEST AND SINCERE!!!
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Haha - true, but I don't think such an exact approach is really needed here. You're an engineer?

Just drive to the closest petrol station or even better do as Fazda suggested because the gauges at petrol stations can be inaccurate and the air filled with moisture.
 
OP:

You've got my respect for asking such a question.

Screw with your tyres and you screw with your life.

I am a motoring nut. I drive old cars and new cars. Slowly and fast. Road tyres and racing tyres.

Between my experience and knowledge gleaned from a racing mechanic friend of mine, 2km is a good baseline for road tyres. After that they'll start to show a noticeable difference based on the quality of your guage and the ambient temperature.

If have to check your tyres on the road, try and do it with some experience. I.e. get a feel for how much your tyre readings change once they're hot. Then you can calculate the difference.

I cannot advocate enough how important it is that you buy yourself a really good guage (and look after it) and that you check your tyres atleast once every two weeks. I do mine weekly. NEVER use a garage guage if you can. They're hardly ever checked and lose their calibration often due to being dropped constantly. I had a friend challenge my personal guage debate years ago until I put him in his car and drove him to the nearest garage. He picked the pump and pumped all four of his tyres to the same reading on the garage guage. I then checked all four with my guage and each one was different - by a large degree. Electronic vs. analogue is an ongoing debate though.

I am perhaps pedantic by most people's standards, but I have enough experience from all motoring worlds to know the difference it can make - even to a public road-going driver.

If you get to know your car and tyres, you'll be able to tell which ones are out and roughly by how much. I can generally tell you if one of the tyres is out on one of my cars by .1-.2 of a bar.
 
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