This was on the front page of the local newspaper tonight as a way to save
gas. You know it's being huffed and puffed now.
Paul
On 8/1/2006 9:07:59 PM, Bill Strobel (theamcguy@yahoo.com) wrote:
> Pure nitrogen is better for tire stability than regular air, but the
> reason you are hearing so much about it is because the machines are being
> sold to garages as the next big money maker. A shop invests in the
> machine they gotta get their money back and then make a profit on it.
> Every month the trade magazines tout the profitability of a nitrogen tire
> filling machine in your shop. The shops hope it will be the next big
> seller. The number one profit generator in the shops today, fluid change
> machines. Brake, transmission, cooling, rear axle, power steering, all
> these machines have been developed and sold. The fluid change is being
> oversold and it is a big profit generator. Some shops are foregoing most
> labor intensive stuff just concentrating on brakes, shocks, and fluid
> changes. The nice thing about the nitrogen tire filler, once you buy the
> machine, the product you sell is free.
> It's all marketing. They dream up the machines, build them, then develop
the customer
> to want the product. No one that grew up in the 50s and 60s would of ever
dreamed people would pay a dollar for a bottle of water. Now bottled water
almost sells as much as Coke and Pepsi. Pure marketing. The hype has just
started on the nitrogen, it
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