PSA: Check your air pressure

[snagged in outlet 3]

Temp dropped quickly here and my tire pressure sensor went off shortly after.  Tires are expensive so check the pressure when it gets cold.

[fishinwrench]

You have to check them at noon on a Thursday, or they'll never be the same. 

🙂

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 hour ago, fishinwrench said:

You have to check them at noon on a Thursday, or they'll never be the same. 

🙂

As long as you’re checking them.   😘

[jdmidwest]

POS sensors triggered a low tire a couple of weeks ago on the Company car.  Ford does not bother to tell which or how much, just an annoying idiot signal.  One looked low, but station wanted $2 for air, would have taken a week or more for reimbursement.  I dropped into the local tire shop and waited an hour to have them check the pressure.  Free.

I hate all of the new tech and sensors in the rigs we drive today.  Too much info and most is worthless.

[snagged in outlet 3]

4 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

POS sensors triggered a low tire a couple of weeks ago on the Company car.  Ford does not bother to tell which or how much, just an annoying idiot signal.  One looked low, but station wanted $2 for air, would have taken a week or more for reimbursement.  I dropped into the local tire shop and waited an hour to have them check the pressure.  Free.

I hate all of the new tech and sensors in the rigs we drive today.  Too much info and most is worthless.

Both of my vehicles tell you the pressure in all of them but......    I agree.   All that technology isn’t worth a hoot when it’s not working.   I’ve just always checked the tires at the first big cold snap.  They were all good a few weeks ago when we hit single digits but not this time.  

[Al Agnew]

55 minutes ago, jdmidwest said:

POS sensors triggered a low tire a couple of weeks ago on the Company car.  Ford does not bother to tell which or how much, just an annoying idiot signal.  One looked low, but station wanted $2 for air, would have taken a week or more for reimbursement.  I dropped into the local tire shop and waited an hour to have them check the pressure.  Free.

I hate all of the new tech and sensors in the rigs we drive today.  Too much info and most is worthless.

I was glad of the sensors on my Ram truck the other day...I'd been having a tire (almost new) lose about 2 pounds of pressure a week according to the sensors (on this truck it shows the actual pressure of each tire), so I was intending to get it checked out, but hadn't gotten around to it yet.  But I was watching it closely, so I kept the screen up that showed the tire pressure.  Mary and I had left the house, driving to the cabin, and I happened to look down at the screen on the dashboard, and noted that a different tire had lost a couple pounds.  It was a cold, windy morning, so I thought maybe the cold had something to do with it, but in about 15 miles it had lost another pound of pressure.  By the time I'd driven it past one town and was approaching the next, it had dropped from 36 pounds to 28 pounds and the warning was sounding.  So Mary found a tire repair shop in the town we were approaching, called them, and they were able to get us in immediately.  That tire had a big staple in it (the tire repair guy called it a "steeple", which always cracks me up when somebody says that).  If the sensor hadn't warned us, I'd have driven past that town.  If we hadn't stopped and gotten it fixed in that town, it would have gone flat somewhere out in the boonies and I'd have had to change a tire in that nasty weather.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, jdmidwest said:

 

I hate all of the new tech and sensors in the rigs we drive today.  Too much info and most is worthless.

Oh I hate it too.   

What I hate even worse are onboard computers that collect and process that info......and then alter various other operating systems in an attempt to reduce emissions and "PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT".   

I bought this vehicle, paid the sales tax and license fees required, and bygod I am going to be the captain of it.    If I choose to ignore a warning light....then I demand the ability to do so.   Do NOT reduce the amount of drivability that I may need to get back home.   That kinda programming is BS !!! 

[slothman]

5 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Tires are expensive so check the pressure when it gets cold.

Tires are expensive and the price is rising fast. I have replaced all the tires in all my vehicles and trailers in the past year (18 tires in total) and I have seen a dramatic increase in price since May. Hopefully I’m done buying tires for a while. I’m pretty sure I have singlehandedly kept the local tire shop in business through their renovations. 

[jdmidwest]

8 hours ago, Al Agnew said:

I was glad of the sensors on my Ram truck the other day...I'd been having a tire (almost new) lose about 2 pounds of pressure a week according to the sensors (on this truck it shows the actual pressure of each tire), so I was intending to get it checked out, but hadn't gotten around to it yet.  But I was watching it closely, so I kept the screen up that showed the tire pressure.  Mary and I had left the house, driving to the cabin, and I happened to look down at the screen on the dashboard, and noted that a different tire had lost a couple pounds.  It was a cold, windy morning, so I thought maybe the cold had something to do with it, but in about 15 miles it had lost another pound of pressure.  By the time I'd driven it past one town and was approaching the next, it had dropped from 36 pounds to 28 pounds and the warning was sounding.  So Mary found a tire repair shop in the town we were approaching, called them, and they were able to get us in immediately.  That tire had a big staple in it (the tire repair guy called it a "steeple", which always cracks me up when somebody says that).  If the sensor hadn't warned us, I'd have driven past that town.  If we hadn't stopped and gotten it fixed in that town, it would have gone flat somewhere out in the boonies and I'd have had to change a tire in that nasty weather.

A steeple is a u shaped nail for fencing.  A staple is a box shaped wire attachment that comes out of a tool.  At least in the country English I grew up with.

https://www.fencestaple.com/

[Dutch]

1 hour ago, jdmidwest said:

A steeple is a u shaped nail for fencing.  A staple is a box shaped wire attachment that comes out of a tool.  At least in the country English I grew up with.

https://www.fencestaple.com/

Yep, if you asked for fence staples at the local farm and home they would look at you like you were some kind of simpleton.  They are steeples in the country where I grew up and lived.