tyre pressures

front - 26
rear - 28

same as the haynes manual suggests (unless your driving at over 105mph where it suggests 30/32psi.....)


I had my tyre pressures at 32 all round (as i couldnt remember what they should be) and it was a real handful.... understeer into a roundabout and then snap oversteer on the exit, much improved when knocked down to 26/28psi
 
Whitewash said:
I had my tyre pressures at 32 all round (as i couldnt remember what they should be) and it was a real handful.... understeer into a roundabout and then snap oversteer on the exit, much improved when knocked down to 26/28psi
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I had this same experience at 30 psi after the tyre fitters told me 26 was too low and the tyres might come off under hard cornering! The ride was also rock hard. After a bit of experimentation, I now run at 28 all-round as I find the extra 2psi at the front gives a slightly more positive turn-in. I can also report that the best and worst of Welsh, Lakeland and Yorkshire roads have been thrown at them sideways and I haven't ripped a tyre off the rim yet.... This was the same tyre garage that actually thought the rear wheels weren't removable because of the overhang of the wheelarch... they'd jacked it about 2 inches off the ground and then asked if the axle needed to be dropped :shock: , then looked at me like I was asking stupid questions when I said "won't it jack any higher?" There was quite considerable huffing at that!

Michael
 
redrover said:
I said "won't it jack any higher?" There was quite considerable huffing at that!
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I tend to worry at that point...
I lamented the beginning of a crunching 2nd gear syncro from the tyre fitting ape smashing my Alfa into 1st gear without letting things 'settle' for a moment or two after startup.
Bonehead did it again when he took it off the ramp.
Said to him..."Yeah, those Alfa gearboxes wont go into first gear that way"...considerable huffing at that!!!
Guess its a natural reaction when flagrant incompetence/disrespect is illuminated.
 
I remember from many moons ago when I had a couple of tyres fitted to my old P6 in Shaftesbury.

The fitter came into the waiting room and said that he couldn't get the rear wheels off. I went out to the workshop and found the back end well up in the air, but the wheels were still up in the wings :shock:

I asked him, to ask the surgeon, to straighten the de dion tube when he managed to remove it from where I was going to insert it! :twisted: Apparently, so he told me, they always jack up P6s on the de dion.

You just have to sit quietly and slowly shake your head in wonder sometimes.

Richard
 
It's not good when you know more than people being paid to work on your car and even worse when they don't treat it with respect
Still , that's one customer they've lost
 
first K midget MOT the chap sat in it, couldn't get it into reverse. Said PUSH IT DOWN (rather loudly over the hole in the exhaust manifold making a total racket) with the appropriate hand movements

looks at us, fumbles, looks at us, then pulls the gearknob off, upwards. we just fell about laughing. I think it passed because he wasn't well liked by the other guys in the garage, and he kept going on about how "it's not supposed to sound like that!" so they passed it to spite him :)

When I got new tyres on the P6 I took the wheels off at home, then took em round in the g/f's car.
 
I'm also a 26 front & 28 rear man.

When I took my car to the local tyre fitter last year for a new set of tyres, the guy was brilliant. Asked about the car and asked for my advice before he put a jack near it :) and even asked what pressure to inflate to.

When I picked up a new car recently, after a couple of days I thought, "this ride seems a bit harsh". When I checked the tyre pressures, I found all four were at 55psi :!: The owners book said they should be 29f/26r. Then I noticed that the max. pressue stamped on the tyre walls was 55psi. So, I wondered if the guy in the garage was using the 55psi max. warning as recommended setting :?:
 
I fit my own tyres these days as we have the facilities at work, I tend not to trust morons with my car after an altercation with an rac man who tried to jack my mini up by the floor pan.....
 
OK chaps, what about the correct/preferred inflation pressures for a p6 3500? Same as for the 2000/2200? 185R1490H tyres all round.
Also, what kind of wheel brace should I have (please, don't reply "One that fits"!), as I seem to have mislaid/lost/lent mine in the six years since my car actually drove anywhere! :roll: What would have come with the car? Would it have been a wheel brace with just the one 'socket' that fits the wheel bolts, or would it have been one with four different sizes?
 
My V8 runs on 28psi all round.

The tyres are 205/65 15s though but I would assume they would be the same on 185s

Richard
 
Ok daft question time, why 32 in the spare ? I run my s 28f 30 r not sure of the spare. But I carry a pump anyway.
 
happy days said:
Ok daft question time, why 32 in the spare ?
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Two reasons, firstly when you're setting them as part of a service, you know that even in the unlikely event that the owner checks the on the road tyre pressures, most of the time they won't bother with the spare, and secondly, if the spare needs to be used the extra 2lbs means you can fit it to front or rear and set the pressure by letting it down a bit, rather than messing about with footpumps.
 
Thanks Harvey. :D
Anybody got a pic of the original wheelbrace that came with their 3500?
 
mrtask said:
Anybody got a pic of the original wheelbrace that came with their 3500?
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I have the wheelbrace, (in fact I have several surplus to requirements, as mine has SD1 wheelnuts) but a pic is far beyond me!
 
Probably you're better off using one of those telescopic wheel braces for extra leverage ,Use an 18mm socket on standard P6 nuts
 
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