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Old 03-01-2007, 03:31 PM
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What is the correct/optimal tire pressure?
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?

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It's 32 PSI cold (at least for the bridgestones), and I'm pretty sure that its right on the the door sticker.
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32 seems a heck of a lot more logical....anyone else?
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32 sounds about right . I think if you track its recomended to be up around 36
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Thanks, gents. 32 looks right. What the heck is Dunlop thinking?
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Thanks, gents. 32 looks right. What the heck is Dunlop thinking?
51 is just the max pressure that the tire can withstand.
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as long as the tire is 225/45/18 then the psi should be 32
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Originally Posted by mshea
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?

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Sorry--but this is really a dunce question.

Look on the frame, look in the owners manual, search the forum?
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Originally Posted by CarAndDriver
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.
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Originally Posted by mshea
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".

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32 all around!
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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
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