New Rims, no TPMS - How you guys doing?
08-11-2008, 03:11 AM
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Especially in the case of a blowout - TPMS isn't going to buy you anything. Believe me, you'll know it when you have a blowout. While riding on an underpressurized tire is a major factor of tire failures, it's pretty rare and you have to be doing it for a long period of time. It's not like driving one day with low pressure is going to cause a problem, unless you're driving at 100+ MPH for a long time.
08-11-2008, 08:22 AM
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I just deal with the TPMS alert light being constantly lit on the gauge cluster. After a few weeks of it being there I got used to it and now I don't notice it (or at least it doesn't bother me). Just like the old days (i.e. before I bought my Z in 2006), I manually check my tire pressure every two weeks or so, if I remember to. Even when I had the OEM wheels with TPMS, I would check it manually once in a while to make sure that the TPMS was calibrated and operating properly. Same thing with gas mileage, I calculate it by hand. It's not that the car's computer is inaccurate, it's just that I like to be able to compare my numbers with its numbers just as a double-check.
08-11-2008, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by sry110
I just deal with the TPMS alert light being constantly lit on the gauge cluster. After a few weeks of it being there I got used to it and now I don't notice it (or at least it doesn't bother me). Just like the old days (i.e. before I bought my Z in 2006), I manually check my tire pressure every two weeks or so, if I remember to. Even when I had the OEM wheels with TPMS, I would check it manually once in a while to make sure that the TPMS was calibrated and operating properly. Same thing with gas mileage, I calculate it by hand. It's not that the car's computer is inaccurate, it's just that I like to be able to compare my numbers with its numbers just as a double-check.
08-18-2008, 02:43 PM
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Originally Posted by DavesZ#3
Especially in the case of a blowout - TPMS isn't going to buy you anything. Believe me, you'll know it when you have a blowout. While riding on an underpressurized tire is a major factor of tire failures, it's pretty rare and you have to be doing it for a long period of time. It's not like driving one day with low pressure is going to cause a problem, unless you're driving at 100+ MPH for a long time.
After I punctured the tire, I flipped my multi display over to the tire pressure and sure enough pressure was dropping like a rock. Rolled to the closest gas station and stopped before I damaged the rims. (I was doing about 110 mph when tire got punctured). Didn't even need to replace the tire as the gas station had the plug kit.
I'm sure I would've shredded the tire if I waited another 30 sec before slowing down if I was just wondering what happened a little longer.
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