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Philip says "That's why you have to add air to a new tire after 24 hours. It stretches enough that the pressure decreases as much as 20 percent."


Am I missing something here or has he contradicted himself since assuming the above is true, the new tire within one day has stretched enough to fit an old tube?


BTW, I have been of the impression that the reason newly mounted tires lose some pressure is that the oxygen component of air permeates the rubber much more quickly than the nitrogen.  The end result over time is that the gas contained in a tire becomes almost totally nitrogen.


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