Which Tyre Pressure Gauge?

[Genie47]

Because by the time you drive to the petrol station, the tires warmed up and will give a false higher pressure reading. Remember, tire pressure is taken when tires are cold.

 

The usual tactic if you are serious about tire pressure is to overpressure the night before. Park and khoon. Then next morning come back armed with the tire pressure gauge to bleed the tire to the desired pressure. Parking overnight ensures the tire is dead cold. Actually 4hrs is enough. Daytime where got time to wait 4hrs unless you overpressure before driving to work in the morning and don't leave the office for 4hrs.

[Spango]

Actually, I think that dropping zeroed rifle thingy is crap... Tried clicking them before? Its very very difficult to actually click.... They just don't want you to break the space age material...

 

Offer still damn expensive lah! Stethogauge good enough for me already. $12.50 who can find lower?

 

Too bad they don't sell Milton pencil gauges locally. The dial type must be very well kept. Drop them and their readings go off. Machiam like dropping zeroed rifle. The pencil type is simpler in design and difficult to bring variations in their readings but good ones are hard to find. Milton is still the best.

 

I don't trust electronic ones.

[Spango]

I actually saw some digital guages that allow for calibration...

 

There is this problem called calibration. If the digital one goes off there is nothing you can do to save it. The dial type can be re-calibrated if you know who to bring it to. Ditto with the pencil Milton types.

 

BTW, $12.50 for a robust all metal dial guage with pressure release /w rubber tubing so that you can read at crazy angles is very good. I don't know Michelin makes dial gauges at $30. For that price, I'd rather pay more for a Snap-On .

[Genie47]

Its not the clicking. It is the overall engineered alignment. M16 not fit for close combat. Give me old wooden stock rifle for that.

[Genie47]

Will be expensive but calibrate against what? You got to have an unadulterated source of pressure references. If you don't have these references, buy already also no use! BTW, I do have references.

Edited February 3, 2006 by Genie47

[Southpark2000]

 

i only pump tyre when it's cooled down...usually 1st thing in the morning and mi petrol stn is only 2 feeder bus stops away....

 

guess that's why i no nid tyre guage

 

Southpark

The Dude

[Cyberet]

thats considered far liaoz le

mine's just 200metres away

[Southpark2000]

- 200m no scared ka-boom?

 

Pity those guys whose apts are above the petrol stns....or beside them...

[Cyberet]

[Nhrisuzu]

Genie... got a question to ask u about the tyre thing.. where to find the recommended Kpa of the tyre har?? i looked at the tyre all around, can't find it... people told me to look in the vehicle.. but in the vehicle where?? searched around and saw something wrote, 400R158.. is it 400kpa??

 

so far i am pumping 370 becos i saw a cabstar doing that.. but the front tyres still soft, can see the rubber protruding out..

[Genie47]

It should be in your manual or on your car. Two places on the car, your driver's door side where your lock catch is and your glove compartment.

[Ferrari7]

Hi was just wondering if the air pumps at petrol stations are maintained at all?

 

Are they accurate enuff?

 

Heard tt the readings from digital "Clipsal" air pumps at Mobil/Esso can be quite far off in terms of accuracy as compared to Shell's analogue. Is that true?

 

[Genie47]

Best is to over pressure a bit. Go home let the tire cool down, next day measure with your gauge and bleed out. No the kiosk one is not only not accurate, most people pump up tire when tires are warm.

[Ferrari7]

I see. . . Thanks alot.

 

i dun have tyre pressure gauge mah. . .

Maybe will drop by Mustafa. . .

[Aimnfire]

370??????????

[Juzzme]

I was planning to get the stethogauge from Mustafa too, but when i looked at the few units they had, found that the needles in them weren't all resting at the same place, some higher some lower. Didn;t seem like they can be calibrated either.

 

In the end din buy as it got me worried on the accuracy. But must say it's a pretty sturdy looking piece of equipment, and priced reasonably.

[Hyun]

Genie u got calibration facility so that's good, but for the rest of us, wonder if u've some "known readings" we can take reference from, like certain petrol kiosk, the meter is so-and-so much off?

 

i was thinking of buying the mustafa one but the previous post said the needles weren't pointing right(?) if i could readjust it with some known readings, would still work but if can't ...

[Yeobh]

Even if you can set the needle to zero reading doesn't mean that the gauge will give you accurate reading. Gauge quality depends on the type of boudon tube or similar actuating device. Inferior type will not be able to repeat the span readings to fine accuracy.