• Rhaedas
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    278 hours ago

    You do not need to overpressurize to find leaks. This is dangerous advice, as a tire blowing at even lower pressures can kill you. And there won’t be any warning before it does.

    • @[email protected]
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      14 hours ago

      Sorry buddy but you’re full of shit, this is standard practice at tire shops. The reason you overpressure is that a tire at rest may not lose air noticeably, you overpressure to mimic driving down the highway when the tire is bulging out more due to centrifugal forces.

      80 psi for a few minutes is not really that dangerous, the tires blow up at 120+ psi.