View Full Version : What is the correct/optimal tire pressure?


mshea
03-01-2007, 03:31 PM
My OE Dunlop's call for 51 lb. max pressure. 50 lbs. all the way around feels overinflated but I can't find any recommendations in the owners manual or door sticker.

What is best for optimal performance?

Thanks.

jzief128
03-01-2007, 03:44 PM
It's 32 PSI cold (at least for the bridgestones), and I'm pretty sure that its right on the the door sticker.

mshea
03-01-2007, 03:48 PM
32 seems a heck of a lot more logical....anyone else?

Brettus
03-01-2007, 04:15 PM
32 sounds about right . I think if you track its recomended to be up around 36

mshea
03-01-2007, 04:44 PM
Thanks, gents. 32 looks right. What the heck is Dunlop thinking?

OnRails
03-01-2007, 04:56 PM
Thanks, gents. 32 looks right. What the heck is Dunlop thinking?

51 is just the max pressure that the tire can withstand.

invasion08
03-01-2007, 05:08 PM
as long as the tire is 225/45/18 then the psi should be 32

CarAndDriver
03-01-2007, 06:37 PM
My OE Dunlop's call for 51 lb. max pressure. 50 lbs. all the way around feels overinflated but I can't find any recommendations in the owners manual or door sticker.

What is best for optimal performance?

Thanks.
Sorry--but this is really a dunce question.

Look on the frame, look in the owners manual, search the forum?

mshea
03-01-2007, 07:10 PM
Sorry--but this is really a dunce question.

Look on the frame, look in the owners manual, search the forum?

Yeah, well I thought it would be a dunce question too. Except, as I said, it isn't on the frame or owners manual and a search turned up nada.

So thanks for your contribution.

CarAndDriver
03-02-2007, 12:29 AM
Yeah, well I thought it would be a dunce question too. Except, as I said, it isn't on the frame or owners manual and a search turned up nada.

So thanks for your contribution.
You're welcome.

The recommended tire pressure is on the sticker on the driver's door jamb and on page 10-7 of the manual and also if you search using "recommended tire pressure".

:iamwithst

c41250n
03-02-2007, 03:39 AM
32 all around!

CosmosMpower
03-02-2007, 09:32 AM
You should never inflate your tire to the max pressure, that's why it is the MAX pressure. I run my stock RE040's at 32 PSI on the street, tried 34 and found I was wearing the middle a bit much. For autocross I run 36 front 34 rear on 255/40/17 Falkens