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Old Feb 26, 2018 | 1:26 pm
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Originally Posted by ginmqi
Interesting as I had similar experience after renting at OGG. PSI were reading about 44-45 on all 4 tires on the infotainment screen.

I know higher PSI usually means better MPG in general. No idea why specifically they inflate to 40+....but I'm happy to get a bit more MPG out of it though
But (at a given load) higher PSI also means suboptimal wear and traction characteristics. It is surprising that they would willingly take on that liability.
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