What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Highlandr]

The missus got me an Airmoto tire inflator a couple of years ago. It's so easy to use I use it to check/correct the tire pressure on all three vehicles about once a month. Doing both cars, no problem - they both have low-profile tires. But, if I have to add more than five or six pounds total to the Tundra tires it won't do it on one charge.

 

[WinterDeere]

The missus got me an Airmoto tire inflator a couple of years ago. It's so easy to use I use it to check/correct the tire pressure on all three vehicles about once a month. Doing both cars, no problem - they both have low-profile tires. But, if I have to add more than five or six pounds total to the Tundra tires it won't do it on one charge.

I keep a small spare compressor in our attached garage, for the same reason. I have the big compressor plumbed into my shop, dry air with outlets on both floors for various tools, but it's usually easier on a winter evening to just plug in the little pancake compressor in the attached garage where we keep our daily drivers. The same little compressor is hauled around the house to drive pneumatic nailers, when I have a framing or trim project underway, so it has multiple uses.

 

[kenmbz]

I use my M18 inflator, since it's portable , doesn't matter where the car, tractor etc. are located.
For the Jeep with no TPMS, it does show an error, but easy to move it off screen, so not too much of a bother.
Just do a monthly check or when the weather changes.
On my wife's last car we had to changes out one of the sensors as it never sealed all the way leading to a slow leak.

 

[Shawn T. W.]

I'd be surprised if that's right. My Ram is a 2015, and has a pretty basic set of options, and it still shows exact pressure on each tire. A lot of the cars I owned in the early-2000's (Jaguar, Audi, Volvo) had only a "low pressure" warning system, but pretty much anything built after 2010 or 2012 seems to show actual pressure, from what I've seen.

I use my dial type tire gauge when filling tires, and verify the TPMS's are correct at the time. But for the few months between having to adjust pressure, I just check the display about once per week.

I'll look at tomorrow if I remember ... I'm gonna swing by the terminal for a minute to pick up new insurance card.

Like I said, I don't know much about it, maybe just way the dash is set up, but IIRC .. the tire pressure is in the main dash, not the touchscreen in the middle ... I'm not really into all this electronics stuff ...

Mines the next level up from the bottom tradesman, a Express IIRC ...

I went from a 1989 F150 "Custom" about the most basic they made, only real electronics it has other than the EFI, was it had "Delay Wipers"! I lost the motor in it out in Arizona 100 miles from home in October of 2021, not much to choose from ...

So I got this now ...

 

[paulsharvey]

As far as I know, which isn't very much!

On my 2018 Ram it only displays if it's "low" ... Don't recall what that is, as it only ever did that the day following the warm fall afternoon I bought it, it was cool in the morning and it said one was low ... I guess it's possible it's buried in the screen somewhere, but I don't bother with that, IIRC the message came up on the main dash, not the screen in the middle with the clock and whatever else is in the menu's ...

On my semi-truck it's just part of my daily pre-trip inspection on the truck, the trailers have a system that supplies and maintains 100 PSI to the tires, which will compensate for a nail/screw in them, but I still need to look at them ...

My 2019 Ram shows pressure of each tire, and its accurate. Maybe it varies 1 or 2 psi, but that could be your gauge as easy as it is the TPMS that's off.

My 2005 Chevy 2500 had just a "low tire" light, and it didnt show which one; and i think wife's 2012 Durango was the same?

 

[JethroB]

I have a Tissot auto-quartz watch that is self-winding, as it somehow charges a capacitor by the movement of my wrist ... Similar to this Tissot PRX Titanium 38mm | Model T1378074406100 | Tissot® United States

Maybe the tire rotation could do that too?

I remember my dad wearing an auto-winding wrist watch back in the 60’s. Probably a cheap Timex. So the technology has been around for quite some time.

 

[Jstpssng]

I remember my dad wearing an auto-winding wrist watch back in the 60’s. Probably a cheap Timex. So the technology has been around for quite some time.

I had one for a while in HS... made by Clinton with a lifetime warranty.
It quit after a month so I sent it back. Twice.
They never did get it to run again.

 

[WinterDeere]

My dad had an auto-winding wrist watch which he received as a graduation present from high school in 1958, and was his daily wearer until it quit running in the mid-1980's. They're apparently been around since the 1920's!

 

[rontaki]

My dad had an auto-winding wrist watch which he received as a graduation present from high school in 1958, and was his daily wearer until it quit running in the mid-1980's. They're apparently been around since the 1920's!

The difference here is between mechanical rewinding and electrical recharging.
Put a much larger electrical rewinder in an EV and drive bumpy roads...

 

[Shawn T. W.]

Yes, mine was actually charging a capacitor, which then ran a quartz movement . . . Why they called it an "Auto-Quartz" ...