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Safety and Riding Tips / Re: making small talk
« on: July 08, 2019, 06:28:47 PM »Good post.
I bought my good gauges years ago when I was actively tracking/instructing cars. I have not given them any further thought other than to occasionally check to make sure they read the same pressure.
On a related note, I am impressed with how accurate my cars' TPMS pressure read outs are.
My truck has that digital readout of all 4 tires too, and one can watch the pressures increase as they get hot.... better still- when I rotate my tires, the location of said TPMS sensor rotates with it, so I always know what the rt front is vs the other 3 or the vulnerable rt rear that always takes the most abuse on RWD powerful heavy vehicles.... I do not have to reprogram or dick around with anything when I do a rotate........ then wondering, well the rt front went to the left rear and now the tpms is saying that my lr is low....is it really the lr or is it the lf now? (example, this never happened)
Surprising these too are remarkably accurate....
I still love a couple of the tire pressure guages I have had since the 80's but I did buy a new one a couple years ago that was one of those "top-rated" and it routinely read about 4 psi lower than these other two, so I went to the trackside vendor and compared the readings of them to his "professional Dunlop" guage and my 30 year old ones read the same as his and that new fandangle one read low.....
So I don't even use the new one and just keep using the other two
new doesn't always mean better sadly........
mustang... just a low tire pressure light comes on if they fall below about 20psi and you get no clue as to which one until you put a guage on manually (less than 2 inches of sidewall- they can be flat and you wouldn't know by looking at them)