TPMS

Tire pressure management system, a $72 piece of equipment in your tire stem. 2010 Automobile almost swallowed by a Lincoln, NE pothole, tire sidewall torn. Can get tire readily enough but the TPMS sensor is unavailable, and running without for an extended period of time can damage the whole electronic system of the vehicle. According to AAA, the number of pothole damaged vehicles in Lincoln is already at a record high, and the State/County/City are claiming they have no funds to repair roads, and only in December these same bodies were pleased with the excess funds available. Mayor(D) is now preaching to raise the 'wheel tax' 4X to fund road repair. The people are asking where did the 'excess' funds go? And only a resounding silence from the City/County/State.

Edited by oldsoldier - 20 January 2010 at 10:16am

about ten years ago a group around me was fighting potholes by fixing them themselves. Interesting IMO.

I like my monitoring system. It calculates if a tire is rotating at a different speed due to a flat. It works really well. It noticed a flat just occurred and the tire still looked like it was perfect. The newer models of my car are given the TPMS sensor.
I've never heard of not having a sensor messing up the electronic system. I know a lot of people with the sensors not running the sensors because they bought new rims and never had them transferred. Most people just put a little piece of electrical tape over the flat tire light.

i had those in my jeep tires for a while until my sister thought she was helping by getting my wheels changes with another jeep whose wheels didn't have it.

i've been driving around without it for a while now, and the rest of my electronics systems are working fine

choopie911 wrote: Our van had that, and it was never right as drastic temperature changes would throw the whole deal off. We completely ignored it almost immediately.

Your tire pressure changes with temperature...


Edited by WGP guy2 - 20 January 2010 at 6:42pm

WGP guy2 wrote: choopie911 wrote: Our van had that, and it was never right as drastic temperature changes would throw the whole deal off. We completely ignored it almost immediately. Your tire pressure changes with temperature...

Well considering the rules of the world we live in, I'd certainly hope so. Do you have somehow magical tires that are unaffected by weather? Even if it's a small change, it could screw with the censor, at least I'm sure thats what it was with ours.