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ABS will work better for more than 99.999999% of the people on the road than no ABS. It will also provide steering if any is to be had.
ABS releasing 40 times a second at say 70 MPH.
@PaddleDog52 said:
Tires with pressure with a 25% change is dangerous
No. Standard pressures are 52 and 71 psi. Unless you’re at the vehicle’s load carrying capacity, 25% gives sufficient headroom and isn’t noticeable in handling.
Dinky little 12V compressors take forever to air up these tires. They also smell like they’re going to start on fire. When the one I have finally dies or pisses me off too much I’ll be getting one that’s much more capable.
I should add that this isn’t a number I’ve configured. This is a factory setting.
Cold weather like 50-60 down to 10-15 degrees will easily drop enough to set off tpms. Eye balling tires for pressure is not a good idea.
@grayhawk said:
I’ve tried others that would never get to 30lbs.
On a passenger car? That SuperFlow looks great, but expensive.
So far my only TPMS issues have been during very cold weather. False alarms. And one flat tire, but I didn’t need the TPMS to tell me that.
@PaddleDog52 said:
Eye balling tires for pressure is not a good idea.
That depends how experienced your eyeballs are, or more accurately, how good your brain is at understanding what you see. I never find that an air gauge will tell me that tire pressure is low enough that it needs attention when I don’t already know it just from looking at the tire (but I check it with the gauge anyway, if only to see how low the pressure really is). Further, if the gauge says the pressure is low and I didn’t already see that this was the case, it’s not low enough to be of any concern, though I’ll still address it because I like to keep the tire pressure very close to my target levels (“levels” is plural because unless I’m carrying a lot of weight in the car, I put less pressure in the rear tires so they “squat” about the same as the front tires). “Eyeballing” isn’t such a bad check to make if the initial pressure was actually measured, not guessed at. If you are referring to “eyeballing” and never even using a pressure gauge at all, then I would agree with you.
Need to pump up tires? Use a floor pump… like you pump up bicycle tires. I mean we’re paddlers, right? Compressors are so… jet ski.
Ha. I carry a pretty decent bike pump in the car and have used it for the tires in certain circumstances. But it does turn into a toning exercise to get a tire up to full pressure.
For some reason children are fascinated with the floor pump. Grandkids; neighbor kids, come running and want to help pump up the tire.
Is it legal to remove your TPMS?
I’ve never had them but I guess that’s the downside of keeping a vehicle a long time…
@grayhawk said:
Is it legal to remove your TPMS?
I’ve never had them but I guess that’s the downside of keeping a vehicle a long time…
I don’t think there’s any downside to keeping a vehicle for a long time so long as it runs well and you’re not spending a ton of money keeping it going.
As to removing the TPMS, 49 U.S. Code § 30123 - Tires, provides:
“(b)Prohibition.—
A manufacturer, distributor, dealer, rental company, or motor vehicle repair business may not knowingly make inoperative any part of a device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment in compliance with an applicable motor vehicle safety standard prescribed under this chapter unless the manufacturer, distributor, dealer, rental company, or repair business reasonably believes the vehicle or equipment will not be used (except for testing or a similar purpose during maintenance or repair) when the device or element is inoperative.”
The Code doesn’t mention “individual,” so yes, the vehicle owner can remove them but in states where vehicles are inspected, the car won’t pass. Nor could the vehicle be sold without the sensors.
I read something recently that was looking at the specifics of TPMS and winter tires. The conclusion was that installing winter tires without sensors was viewed as knowingly making the system inoperative.
It’s still common practice though.
Jeeps don’t get old they just get dirty.
This deal is this; a tire shop cannot assemble rims and tires without sensors and mount them on a vehicle equipped with TPMS. However, they can assemble and sell them to you to install yourself, as long as you don’t tell them they’re for a TPMS-equipped vehicle. That’s exactly what I did with my winter wheels and tires. I wasn’t about to add 30% to the cost of the wheel/tire package by adding sensors for a system that doesn’t work worth a damn.