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Post by trailboss on Oct 29, 2019 19:37:33 GMT -5
Sensors? When the weather changes in the southwest, it seems that the TPMS sensors are triggered resulting in long lines of people waiting to have their air checked. I went to add air at the shop at work, the inner valve crumbled, fortunately it still held air until I got off work.... $68.00!😡 Sitting here for an hour and the line has never shortened.
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Post by calabash on Oct 29, 2019 19:44:30 GMT -5
Happened to me the other day. The little Costco inflator came in handy.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 29, 2019 19:49:02 GMT -5
Them things are great... sure beats changing a tire when you find a slow leak leaves you a flat in the morning or getting off work.
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Post by McWiggins on Oct 29, 2019 19:54:12 GMT -5
I do the same in keeping an inflator. I also keep a good gauge handy too.
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Post by calabash on Oct 29, 2019 19:54:33 GMT -5
I was going crazy with my wife’s car until I realized the spare was the culprit.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2019 20:39:37 GMT -5
Nitrogen for tires equals fewer TPMS lights at least for me. I am pretty lucky I have a friend who runs a fleet a few miles away so it is free other than buying the green valve stem caps. I use the Slime 20230 and loose a few to parking lot theft.
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Post by Penzaholic on Oct 29, 2019 22:45:03 GMT -5
Yep, I had to borrow my friends mini air pump last month, handy little thing that he keeps in his glovebox.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 29, 2019 22:56:37 GMT -5
I keep a 12v compressor in the truck as well as the Craftsman in the garage. Harbor tool has decent compressors for airing up tires for $39. No excuse for a car owner not to have something to air up their own tires. The 8-ply tires on my truck are good from 32 to 44 psi so I take the dash lights with a grain of salt.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Oct 30, 2019 5:31:53 GMT -5
When were fortunate enough to have seasons, it does. I keep a pressure gauge in my wife's car and always check them. Here, one day is 80, the next is 40, so it's hard to chase thr "correct" pressure day by day.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 30, 2019 13:12:59 GMT -5
I guess I am the only one who has never heard of a TPMS sensor. Has something to do with tire inflation?
I run "E" rated tires at 60 PSI. Does that help?
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 30, 2019 13:26:36 GMT -5
I guess I am the only one who has never heard of a TPMS sensor. Has something to do with tire inflation?
I run "E" rated tires at 60 PSI. Does that help?
They are little radio transmitters in each tire on the newer cars, trucks, and motorcycles that notify the vehicles computer when the tire pressure is too low. Adds about $50-100 to every tire charge. My truck tells me the actual pressure and which tire is low. Wife's car just tells you that one of your tires is low. The trike just warns me by riding funny and not steering right. On my truck I have to go through a 30 minute ritual every time the tires are rotated to reset the computer to know which sensor is on which wheel. It does take the spare out of the circuit when it is done. It's a generally good idea as my wife would drive for weeks on 4 flats.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2019 14:01:27 GMT -5
I tell em leave my valve stems alone. When I purchased my truck new I went through hell getting the TPMS to work properly. I am not about to let some punk busting tires mess that up. The rebuild is a o-ring or worse they use a generic sensor or valve stem. Here a GM broken down if you have the rubber ones those are not rebuildable. This picture does not show the little rod that moves up and down inside below the Schrader valve.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 30, 2019 22:10:25 GMT -5
Good info Ron and Sean...they have been out for quite awhile John, all new cars have them...my 2007 Dodge Nitro is the car that had the issue. I remember a guy in 2005? with a Nissan 300Zx that complained about a tire monkey screwing his up and it was a $250.00 unit, but the prices have come down a lot. My daily driver is a 2012 Nissan Frontier, and I was able to get 80,000 miles out of the original tires, I think in large part due to the TPMS sensors that notified me that there was an irregularity that my eyes did not pick up...I like it more than checking with a gauge every week or so....yeah, I am lazy.
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Post by toshtego on Oct 31, 2019 8:39:49 GMT -5
I can see how that would be handy. I recently drove about 1/2 mile on a flat tire and tore it up past repair.
My Ford truck is 20 years old and my Toyota Lancruiser just had its 32nd year anniversary.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2019 9:26:12 GMT -5
when it gets cold here they always go off until you get the tires hot again
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