Rim/Wheel Material Effect on Tire Pressure Variation
My current car, and the one I traded toward it, both have alloy wheels. My wife's has steel rims with plastic wheel covers.
After three years of driving cars with alloy wheels, compared to my wife's ride on steel rims, I noticed one thing: I have to adjust my cars' tire pressures about twice as often as her's.
Question: Does the material of the wheel or rim a tire is mounted to affect the tire's ambient temperature, and hence it's air pressure?
*Side Note* Admins: Please fix the tags feature on new threads!
I added "steel rims, alloy wheels, tire pressure", assuming each separated by commas equals a single tag.
It always says I "exceeded maximum number of tags by 1", whether I use a single word tag or a string of words!
Thank you!