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Pros and cons of using Nitrogen to inflate your tires (Part 3) This is part 3 of our series on using Nitrogen to inflate your tires. · Click here for part one. · Click here for part two. Drawbacks you can expect when using nitrogen inflation. 1. Regardless of its ability to stay put within the tire, nitrogen is still a gas and eventually you will need to restore the pressure of your tires by topping them off. When this happens, nitrogen can only be topped off by nitrogen. The alternative, which is filling it up using compressed air, is a slow and tedious affair that involves deflating the tire completely before re-inflating it using compressed air. 2. To fill your tires with nitrogen, you will need to dig deeper into your pockets. It might save you money at the pump due to the ... read more

Pros and cons of using Nitrogen to inflate your tires (Part 2) Please click here for part one of our series on nitrogen fill for your tires. Benefits of Nitrogen tire inflation1. Provides more consistent inflation. As much as compressed air is still widely used, it is important to note that one of the most detrimental properties of oxygen is the permeability of its molecules. The rate at which oxygen seeps out of the tires causes them to lose up to 3PSI per month. Nitrogen has significantly larger molecules than oxygen, being as much as four times larger than oxygen molecules. This property makes nitrogen-filled tires unable to lose pressure through permeation no matter how long it takes. Therefore, it enables your tires to maintain optimum pressure for longer periods of time without the need to top them up constantly. Keeping the tire pressure constant ... read more

NYC, we got them and we got them bad! Severe road conditions that is. We all know when the National Weather Service says there is a severe weather warning, we need to take precautions. Our blog has pointed out many times during this last year the fact that in the NYC area we always drive under "severe road and traffic conditions" and we have spoken about many factors contributing to dangerous, over used, never maintained roads, traffic, stop and go driving, sudden breaking due to highways seemingly converging traffic and drivers going from doing 55 mph to 10 mph for miles and miles, etc. Nowhere in the USA except other major metropolises like Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, etc, do we find the scope and dimension of what we all know is dangerous roads, extensive drive time and gas consuming, etc which place tremendous burdens on our vehicles and on our nerves. Of course, weather always factors in making severe driving conditions and severe road factors nearly impossible and ... read more

free with purchase of 4 tires at all 106 St Tire locations:FREE wheel alignmentFREE tire mountingFREE tire balancingFREE valves if neededFREE tire rotations for the life of your purchased tiresFREE nitrogen-fill for one year106 St Tire & Wheel locations offers our customers an all-in-one package deal when you buy tires. There are no service add ons. When we give you a price, it includes everything and you can expect no surprises.We offer appointments to save you time and we're open 24 hours to make things convenient in the city that never sleeps.Call us for a customer friendly price, great free services and make an appointment online.Our 24 hour locations are 106-01 Northern Blvd and 105-08 Northern Blvd, call 718-446-6769 everyday of the year except Christmas.We appreciate your ... read more

106 St Tire & Wheel NYC's premier tire and wheel dealership takes an interest in the air quality in Queens, Brooklyn, Long Island and NYC, you can save money, improve safety and help the elder and kids be healthier and get more miles to the gallon. Read our well received article about a greener, healthier tomorrow: greencitychallenge.org/fill-your-tires-with-nitrogenA healthier NYC is up to you!