Naaaa Wrote:
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> There were plenty of aluminum wheels around in
> 1980s and as a kid working in a tire shop at the
> time I changed plenty of them. Never recall any
> issues with maintaining a bead or unusual
> corrosion. If anything much less so versus old
> steel wheels which you'd expect given that they'd
> react in the same way much faster and to a greater
> extent. Further evidenced by the fact that there
> are literally millions of cars with aluminum
> wheels running around these days which are not
> using nitrogen and which do not have such a
> problem.
>
> If you're having/had some issue like that then
> it's likely that there's something else going on
> and more a coincidence that they just happened to
> have put nitrogen whenever they fixed that or
> something specific to your wheels.
The Goodyear dealership has a price hanging on the wall specific to the problem I had. I doubt they put it up there just for me. It's a Lincoln LS with factory wheels on it. It still doesn't have nitrogen in the tires.
Oh yeah, there's about a zillion websites out there that explain the exact same problem I had. Here's one.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/repair-questions/4302788