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flat tires only when it's really cold?

I have the tire pressure monitoring system on my 07 sebring aluminum rimmed wheelsI have a heated garage parking spot, and my tires stay fine with normal air pressureThen if I park it outside for a few hours, it will lose probably 5 or so pounds of airIf I leave it outside overnight, 2 of my tires go COMPLETELY flat! I had this same problem last year and took it to two different placesI don't have money to spend or waste right now but I really need this problem fixedI read online it might be the aluminum wheels but is this the only thing it could be? They don't lose any air if it's like 40 degrees but when it's really cold they go completely flatWould appreciate any advice

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grocery stores or convenience stores
I got mine at Walmart, but any restaurant supply store would have them.
well u might already kno this but yea im pretty sure its the air pressure decreasing because of the change in temperature that makes the tires go flatits a scince thing, basically, when ur tires are in the heated garage the molecules of air in the tires are moving fast around and they takes up alot of space and push the tires out fully but when u bring the tires outside then they get cold, and the molecules of air grow cold and therefore cant move as fast and take up much less space, causing the tires to go flat, i dont know if u can really do anything about that i guess it would actually help to not have a heated garage then, beucase if u leave the heat off in the garage and then fill up the tires fully at room temperature and leave the car in the garage, then when u bring the tires outside they wont shrink as much because it wont be as drastic of a change in temperature, and therefore it wont be as drastic of a change in air pressure and the tires wont go as flathope u can understand that haha i guess that was pretty confusingly worded sorry but good luck brotha! also i guess just dont park it outside and the tires wont go flat, just as long as u avoid any extreme temperature changes then the tires will be finejurddd!

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