Check the inside of the drivers front door. there should be a sticker with the correct tier inflation for your beetle.
29psi in the front and 28psi in the rear should be pretty close.
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I agree, however the sticker is ONLY accurate if you have the stock tires on the VW, If they are not the original tires you want to check the sidewalls of the tires and it will tell you the recommended inflation for the tires.
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My wife has one of those small rice bucket cars, I agree with you. Because, going by just the specks in driver side door jam, only works, if original tires, and wheels. When we bought the car, after market wheels and tires were put on, if I followed door jam specks, then would not be accurate for tire presure , by looking at the tires them selfnand side wall rating would be more accurate . Thanks you for saving my possible uneven ware or blow out.
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SOOOO much misinformation about so many things...
The recommended tire pressure on the placard is always where you should start. Period. End of sentence. You can ask any automotive or tire engineer - I have. I also love how any old yahoo thinks he knows better than the people who design and engineer things. And, DO NOT look at the side of the tire for "recommended tire pressure" because you will NOT see those words. That is a MAX pressure. Now, it's not recommended to go below the pressure on the placard as you will decrease mileage and start to POSSIBLY introduce handling problems. So, it's simple: start with your tire pressures at the manufacture's specs. If you think you know what you are doing, you can raise the pressure a pound or two at a time to POSSIBLY increase handling, and you will increase gas mileage, but all at the expense of ride quality and tire noise. In the last ten years or so, I've found that I'm willing to add no more than two pounds before the harshness and road noise increase too much.
Lastly, a tire's inflation pressure and therefore softness is part of the overall design of the suspension system. Too hard a tire will cause things like the compression and rebound damping rates to possibly become unsafe.
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