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Thread Author: Bobby Replies: 12

 Tyre pressures - Bobby
My Civics normal pressures are 35F 33R
fully loaded it is 38F 33R
Towing its 35F 38R

Was going down to Bishops Stortford for a family wedding, fully loaded with 5 people and cases. The above pressures dont make logical sense to me, queried with Honda and they confirmed they were correct.
Explained that I thought it was maybe a typo and could they check with technical dept and they did and came back and said they are correct.

So why, when I fully load the car, should more pressure be put in the front and backs left unchanged?
And why, when you have a trailer on the towball, you put more pressure on the rear?

Surely 3 passengers in rear and boot full would put more weight on back of car than a trailer or caravan with an axle to take the weight?

Any logical explanations ?
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 Tyre pressures new Bobby 21 Jun 16 23:18
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