I live across the street no more than 200 yards from a Discount Tire store. I like to go there at the beginning of every month to get the pressure checked. I always go when my tires are cool. My tires are 235/55R17 Cooper CS5 Grand Touring tires on 17" steel wheels. The sticker on the door says 35 pounds pressure. They guys have always filled them to 35 pounds.
Yesterday when I went there a new guy filled them to 38 pounds. I asked him why he overfilled them. He said that they are trained to overfill them because people drive in off the street with the tires hot, so when they cool off they'll be at the right pressure.
I told him that:
A) the tires were already cool, so now when they heat up they'll be at least 41 pounds which is too high, and
B) no one there had ever overfilled them before.
He just repeated that he was doing what they were trained to do.
It sounds like bull twinkie to me. Should I go back and have them deflated to 35 pounds?
TIA
Yesterday when I went there a new guy filled them to 38 pounds. I asked him why he overfilled them. He said that they are trained to overfill them because people drive in off the street with the tires hot, so when they cool off they'll be at the right pressure.
I told him that:
A) the tires were already cool, so now when they heat up they'll be at least 41 pounds which is too high, and
B) no one there had ever overfilled them before.
He just repeated that he was doing what they were trained to do.
It sounds like bull twinkie to me. Should I go back and have them deflated to 35 pounds?
TIA