Tire Pressure Gauge BT: Any recommendations?
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Tire Pressure Gauge BT: Any recommendations?
<center><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005AXI4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg"></center><p>Not a high buck item, but I'd like to get a good one. I've been using one of these for five yrs and it's dying out. Any suggestions for a replacement?
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Interesting story of an unofficial tire gauge test.....
...at a recent ACNA driver's event, I was checking my tire pressures using my (I thought) trusty Brookstone analog gauge:
<img src="http://www.brookstone.com/bs_assets/images/shop/large_300/396168_p.jpg">
A buddy has his even-fancier gauge at the ready, so we compared - his read 9 PSI (!!!!) lower than mine! His was similar to this:
<img src="http://store1.yimg.com/I/everythingautomotive_1872_37744850">
This made me wonder, so I borrowed gauges from 3 more drivers, and all of them gave different numbers. While hardly a representative sample, I thought it best to take the AVERAGE of all those readings as closest to reality, and one like this one (Accutire) read right at that average:
<img src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/rodi_1871_8207324">
So, I dug out the same one that I got at the quattro challenge a coupla years ago (but had put away, thinking it was inferior to my analog gauge), and now use that.
YMMV, of course.
<img src="http://www.brookstone.com/bs_assets/images/shop/large_300/396168_p.jpg">
A buddy has his even-fancier gauge at the ready, so we compared - his read 9 PSI (!!!!) lower than mine! His was similar to this:
<img src="http://store1.yimg.com/I/everythingautomotive_1872_37744850">
This made me wonder, so I borrowed gauges from 3 more drivers, and all of them gave different numbers. While hardly a representative sample, I thought it best to take the AVERAGE of all those readings as closest to reality, and one like this one (Accutire) read right at that average:
<img src="http://us.st11.yimg.com/store1.yimg.com/I/rodi_1871_8207324">
So, I dug out the same one that I got at the quattro challenge a coupla years ago (but had put away, thinking it was inferior to my analog gauge), and now use that.
YMMV, of course.
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FWIW
A friend once told me truck stops and tire dealers have equipment to check the accuracy of your tire pressure gauge. I didn't remember to ask the tire dealer to check my gauge when I was last in for new tires...
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