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[John Roberts {JR}]

It has been over a year so time for a reminder... I just checked my car and found two tires down around 25#. With the low profile tires I can't just eyeball them for inflation status so I have to actually measure them.

JR

[Ivan Beaver]

It has been over a year so time for a reminder... I just checked my car and found two tires down around 25#. With the low profile tires I can't just eyeball them for inflation status so I have to actually measure them.

JR

A few weeks ago I check mine and they were low.

Thanks for the constant reminders----------

[Jonathan Johnson]

It has been over a year so time for a reminder... I just checked my car and found two tires down around 25#. With the low profile tires I can't just eyeball them for inflation status so I have to actually measure them.

JR

The proper inflation is usually listed on the driver's side door or latch pillar.

Remember to check the spare, too! Those dinky donuts usually require 60 PSI.

[Bob Leonard]

Back in the 60's I had a set of tires on my 64' Galaxie aptly named sluts. They kept going down on me.

[Tommy Peel]

Thanks for the reminder JR. I need to check my car; it doesn't have one of those fancy TPMS systems like newer cars.

[Jonathan Johnson]

Thanks for the reminder JR. I need to check my car; it doesn't have one of those fancy TPMS systems like newer cars.

How do you know the TPMS is working? Nobody hears the dog that doesn't bark.

Always a good idea to check with a gauge, even if you have TPMS.

[Tommy Peel]

How do you know the TPMS is working? Nobody hears the dog that doesn't bark.

Always a good idea to check with a gauge, even if you have TPMS.

True enough.

[John Rutirasiri]

How do you know the TPMS is working? Nobody hears the dog that doesn't bark.

Always a good idea to check with a gauge, even if you have TPMS.

Government regulation (in the US anyway) mandates that all TPMS system lights up a TPMS-specific MIL (malfunction indicator lamp, separate from check engine light) upon system failure.  It has been this way since MY2006 cars.  So you should know whether the TPMS is working or not.

But yes, totally agree that one needs to check tire pressure with a gauge, and not wait until TPMS lights up.

-JR

[Mark Cadwallader]

Just asking, but how often do you check the calibration of your tire presure guages?  If you do (and don't live in Colorado Springs near NIST), what do you do to check the calibration?  (My non-NIST traceble solution is to use a 6" 1.5% accuracy guage manifold set up, in the middle of the range.)  Not withstanding the foregoing, an inaccurate guage is probably better than not checking at all. Mark C.

[John Roberts {JR}]

Time for a reminder...

Yesterday I checked my car tires and they were down to 30#... Now that I have a good bicycle tire pump I top off my tires by hand. Putting 5# more into 4 tires was actually like work. 

I counted pumps, and it took around 80 pumps per tire to hit 35#. I was no longer tempted to inflate any higher.

JR

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