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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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.

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Quote Originally Posted by Vega@Autopia View Post
    PSA = Public Service Announcement

    If you haven`t checked in awhile, be sure to check your tire pressure! I checked mine yesterday and both of my tires were surprisingly low.

    In hindsight, I should have checked them much more frequently like when I changed my oil or cleaned and lubed my chain or when I washed my bike this weekend.

    I never rode my bike as a daily driver (rider). I always checked my tire pressure before each ride. In my cars I have been known to go way too long between checks. Flat or low tire in a car = inconvenience. Flat tire on a bike = bad news.

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Quote Originally Posted by trashmanssd View Post
    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..
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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Quote Originally Posted by LEDetailng View Post
    I never rode my bike as a daily driver (rider). I always checked my tire pressure before each ride. In my cars I have been known to go way too long between checks. Flat or low tire in a car = inconvenience. Flat tire on a bike = bad news.
    Ya I felt really bad when I noticed how low they were. I should have noticed earlier since the handling has been much worse these past few weeks. It`s amazing how difference a few points in each tire can make a motorcycle feel. Night and day difference.

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Quote Originally Posted by Vega@Autopia View Post
    Ya I felt really bad when I noticed how low they were. I should have noticed earlier since the handling has been much worse these past few weeks. It`s amazing how difference a few points in each tire can make a motorcycle feel. Night and day difference.
    Vega - Ride safe man! None of want to hear something bad happened to you (or Andre) while riding your bike. Heck I was even concerned when you said Thunderstorms had postponed one of the contest announcement! Little did I know you were just teasing...

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Quote Originally Posted by trashmanssd View Post
    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.
    Not having a dipstick doesn`t mean that you can`t check the fluid level. There is a check plug on the bottom of the transmission pan/case if you really feel inclined to check, although it isn`t as simple as pulling a dipstick.
    I still don`t believe in grit guards.
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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    TPMS has made people lazy about checking them.
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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Quote Originally Posted by PA DETAILER View Post
    TPMS has made people lazy about checking them.
    Heh heh, various Electronic Nannies are making some people lazy about a lot of things. We`ll see how that works out....

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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!!
    life is short ..do it while you can

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    Yep. I am bad at this.

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    Re: PSA: Check your tire pressure

    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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