With most cars having TPIs, checking tire pressure may be a lost art. Now some cars don`t even come with a dipstick to check your oil. Technology=something else to break.
With most cars having TPIs, checking tire pressure may be a lost art. Now some cars don`t even come with a dipstick to check your oil. Technology=something else to break.
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My last toy car had no engine oil dipstick, you had to check it from the on board computer and it only read it at idle when it was up to temperature. Now my Toyota truck has no transmission dip stick.
This is and will always be a bad idea to remove dipsticks..
Ok, I get it that they may say that the system is more air-tight to eliminate a potential source of air leaking or combustion by-products leaking back out into the atmosphere..
I am of the idea having pulled probably a thousand dipsticks over my lifetime - most working at my Dad`s gas station and other stations, and then all those from all the vehicles of my own and dozens of friends, strangers, widows, etc..., that we need them..
The best part for me anyway, to be able to have that dipstick is that I can instantly tell if the motor oil or transmission fluid or power steering fluid is bad, really bad, or much much worse than it ever should be, AND I can physically see by the level, how much is actually in that particular pan.., etc., in the engine...
I recall that when BMW first did this to their vehicles, they had a big problem for awhile because the sensors that were supposed to tell you when the levels changed for the worse did not work or worked erratically, etc...
So now, we have to just depend on something to tell us - "Oh, your expensive engine is melting down NOW, because the sensors got confused or something..
Dan F
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I`m not liking the tire sensors on the newest car we got, the light is always on and anytime I`ve checked the pressure is fine and the tires are not flat. Such an annoyance and I`ve even read that sometimes only the dealership can reset those sensors. If mine keeps doing this I might hook my code reader on and see if it helps.
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Be safe Vega!! Before I sold my ZX6R I would check the pressure every ride.
Always visually inspect each tire too. I had front and rear tire stands so it was easy to rotate the tire to check them.
I once found a small trim nail in my rear tire. Freaked me out. If I missed that and it came out on a ride it could have been bad.
Ride safe!!
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I`m *ASSuming* that everybody here does a daily pre-flight walk-around, right? Looking for anything that`s obviously not right, like low tires, suspicious puddles, etc. ...Like, *every* day that a vehicle gets used, before you first start it up....right?
Been trying to get a newly-licensed driver into this habit, her parents/driving "instructors" (scare-quotes very intentional) apparently never brought it up
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TPMS has made people lazy about checking them.
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Came out yesterday morning and I had the tire idiot light on .. out comes the pump and of course it didn`t go off until I put air into the fourth tire Respect your tires!!
Yep. I am bad at this.
Thanks for the reminder, I have to do this soon. I have the TPMS for the first time in this car. I never saw it operate, so I must be good - right ? I have a few gauges that need to be dusted off.
EDIT: I just did the tires, all were 3# over. I left them that way. The spare is next, too much junk in the trunk at this time.
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