TPMS

I would venture a guess that all four will have to be changed for correct communication

Raise your hand if you remember before vehicles had to be idiot proof and you checked your tire's air pressure with a gauge. An economy car could be brought for a couple thousand dollars instead of the $40K and up. Too many fall for the trap the salesmen sell "this is the car you need with all these features". 

Used to have to take more than one spare tire with you and a patching kit if you were going very far. Times change but it ain’t all bad.

Where my accountant works, they have an F250 that the tire pressure warning activates when the fuel tank drops to half.

Wife’s 2017 exploder and my 2010 Pimpala both have TPMS, both are pretty well garbage, once a month in cooler weather I air the tires with a inline gauge/inflator have had over 30 years. Against a newer actual gauge I use in my old F250 that inflator gauge is within 3#, the car indicators are aftermarket as have failed on average every five years show anywhere from 5-10# variance to the gauge but also change indications every day as to pressure where the line gauge shows steady on, as tried that a few times.

Idiot proof is not what it is but idiot producing as most do not understand removing the caps and trying a old fashion gauge at least once a month.

Add to that the idiots driving thru town, T/S fast flashing and they not only do not understand the other end lamp is burnt out or just broken yet do not take to a garage either. Same three cars and truck I see once or twice every few days been doing that for months. No one takes time to check the lights on occasion to precent incidents, except a limited few as myself. DOT Daily inspect guidelines pretty well engrained.

Anybody that doesn't like TPMS has never had a tire with a slow leak (nail in tire) that the TPMS warned about before I had a blowout on my fifth wheel. Have you ever seen the damage to a travel trailer or fifth wheel caused by a blowout? 

Guy at work was getting a low tire psi warning. Turned out to be the spare tire was low.

ACinSC wrote: Guy at work was getting a low tire psi warning. Turned out to be the spare tire was low.

PaulB wrote: Raise your hand if you remember before vehicles had to be idiot proof and you checked your tire's air pressure with a gauge. An economy car could be brought for a couple thousand dollars instead of the $40K and up. Too many fall for the trap the salesmen sell "this is the car you need with all these features".

I do!!
We actually acquired a 1991 F-350 this past October, the turn signal lever actually is used for ‘turn signals’. There is the pull-out switch on the dash for headlights, a switch on the dash for the windshield wipers, and the button on the floor for ‘high beam/low beam’, it’s great.

Serious safety issue? I know I shouldn’t ask, but I gotta know, what hair raising situation can you get yourself into within 4-10 seconds of start up? Especially since…well….. should have learned something by now.   

jaybmiller wrote: re: I guess some people would like to go back to when electric starting was an option for a car. Man that ONE action would get rid of 99.44% of all the IDIOTS on the roads now ! less accidents, cheaper insurance,far less traffic,cheap gas.... count me in !! get RID of the aluminum rims ,go back to STEEL and we don't 'need' TPMS.

Tbone95 wrote: I think we should have to do a lot more Saturday valve jobs too! I mean c’mon man! If you don’t know how to do a valve job you’re an idiot that doesn’t deserve to be on the road!

Edited by ekjdm14 - 27 Dec 2024 at 5:16pm

steve(ill) wrote: My grandfather use to think if a car ran 60- 70,000 Miles, it was a MIRACLE ... Now if you dont get 300K your PISSED !

exactly! I remember the first time my parents had a car turn 100,000. They celebrated it like a miracle. Sheesh, I bought one last year with 124,000, figuring it would get me by for three or four years!