Just been blowing my tyres up to the maximum pressure prior to my French camping trip. Will have a heavy cycle rack on the tow ball with two bikes, plus all the camping gear and luggage etc.

Inflated rears to 3bar (~45psi) as per instructions. A colleague with a comparably sized car insists that 31psi is the maximum pressure for his. Come to think of it, 45psi is probably the highest I've ever inflated tyres to- thank goodness for our airline.

Just been blowing my tyres up to the maximum pressure prior to my French camping trip. Will have a heavy cycle rack on the tow ball with two bikes, plus all the camping gear and luggage etc.

Inflated rears to 3bar (~45psi) as per instructions. A colleague with a comparably sized car insists that 31psi is the maximum pressure for his. Come to think of it, 45psi is probably the highest I've ever inflated tyres to- thank goodness for our airline.

Open your fuel filler cap and you will see the pressures there if you go by the fully laden you will not go wrong 45psi is to dam much

Find your tyre and engine size follow it across to the 5 passenger pressure

Edited 22 July, 201015 yr by skippy41

Err yes, 45psi (3 bar) is in instructions on the filler cap .

Glad I did not use a foot pump.

I put mine up to the max for towing .... have to say its a big jump between the normal running pressure and the max. The biggest gap on any, of the many, cars i've towed with.

I normally use a foot pump! One leg is considerably more muscled than the other

Hi, Check the max tyre pressure - should be on the tyre rim somewhere. I stopped pumping to 3 bar after checking this. About 36 psi is what I now use for fully laden. The 3 bar on the filler cap just seems wrong.

Timely question from Gregoire, off camping myself next week - and stone me! - rears at 3.1 Bar on 205/55s according to fuel flap data. Can't belive that's right so 36PSI for me too.

I used to inflate mine to 3bar when going camping in Italy. I drove through Germany at over 100mph with no problems in my vRS. Driving to and from Italy was an 1800mile round trip so i think you will be fine

Remember the lower profile the tyre the higher the pressure will need to be, don't try to compare normal pressure ranges for 80 profiles with 40 profiles etc. they'll be crazy different.

Today I did a fully laden, 4 up + boot stacked high with heavy baggage (couple of 25kg bags plus 4x large hand luggage ~14kg each) on the motorway back at 36psi in the rears (was just me and Monika when we drove to the airport), that definitely was low for those tyres and you could feel it, unpleasant at 80mph stopped at first services, bumped up to 42psi the difference was night and day!

Pumped my rears up to 45 psi when towing my caravan. On site, after removing the van, the ride is quite bumpy. How many people deflate back to standard during their stay on site and then pump them up again for the home journey? I do if I'm on site for more than a couple of days as the ride is so uncomfortable.

i'm just back from 2200 miles around france with a fully loaded octy classic. rear tyre pressures were put up to 36, fronts to 34 and it handled perfectly on both high speed motorway work, and crappeh french back roads.

Pumped my rears up to 45 psi when towing my caravan. On site, after removing the van, the ride is quite bumpy. How many people deflate back to standard during their stay on site and then pump them up again for the home journey? I do if I'm on site for more than a couple of days as the ride is so uncomfortable.

I put 3.2 bar in the rears when towing which seems very high compared to other cars I've had. However this is the fully laden pressure given inside the fuel filler cap for my tyre size and I have to say that the ride is fine and not at all choppy as I expected. I readjust the pressures on site for solo running and then re-inflate for journey home. A bit of a pain but I use a 12v pump to preserve my leg muscles.