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Nitrogen fill is only useful in ...
I'm not sure it's useful anywhere. It takes a little bit of effort to find a place that will fill tires with N. Usually the place that installed the tires or sold the vehicle will do it for free. However, I don't like taking an extra trip just to get my tires filled when I can do it using a 12V infiltrator in my driveway or work parking lot using normal air.
You'll do far more damage driving a few miles on a massively underinflated tire than you ever will with even high humidity normal air. Five minutes of inflating after a temperature change or one minute checking with a simple pencil gauge (I'm partial to Milton which I think are still made in USA). I can't see the extra effort unless you have something exotic that gets driven into the triple digits regularly.
Also, every time I've helped somebody install a spare tire on their car after a flat, it has been massively underinflated. Most of the spares require like 90 psi, so keeping a portable pump in your car that can go to that high of a pressure just makes sense to me.
Don't forget that the regular air from any air compressor on the planet is already 70% nitrogen.
There are useful applications for Nitrogen fill... low profile tires, high altitude driving, arctic driving, and race applications to name a few. In some climates and markets Nitrogen fill is a free service at many auto shops to get you in the door like u/Mr_Wolf stated.
The overall point is that on a TRX with 32' tires that will be driven around L.A. charging for Nitrogen fill is a total and complete scam.
32' tires that will be driven around L.A.
Is this current year LA? Then you mean sitting in traffic.
That's the problem where I live too. I drive an M5 that I bought in Arizona. I liked it there; lots of open road that it made me feel good driving fast on; cops don't particularly give a shit for the most part, and as long as you avoid rush hour on certain roads not a lot of traffic.
Anyways, this cray bitch I live convinced me to move cuz she "couldn't find a job", and now I work from home. Leaving your house is basically playing musical cars. Every other house, which is as far as the eye can see, at least 1/4 of the space is taken up by garage. Therefore, when you leave, you're just trying to switch places with 6 million other fuckers and no one can go anywhere.
Honestly, I wouldn't know. I have only ever flown over escapefromLA for the past decade.
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