Re: Low tire pressure indicator light always on

"Ray O" <rokigawaATtristarassociatesDOTcom> wrote in
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"Tegger" <tegger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A common cause, but by no means the only one. I've had two
unaccountable sudden blowouts. And I do not allow my tires to get low
on air.



Oh, and that's two unaccountable blowouts in 30 years of driving, so it's
not like it's an everyday occurrence...



And in any case, even if I can use cheap steel wheels for winter,
they're not cheap any more if I have to put transponders in each
wheel...





Hmmm, I wonder if the TPMS would detect the absence of transponders -
that is, if you use cheap steel wheels without transponders, would the
TPMS miss the transponders? For those who actually monitor tire
pressure, the transponders are more of a redundancy than a necessity.



My father-in-law has a Chrysler 300M. Some time after he bought it, he
decided to purchase steel wheels and snow tires. He discovered that it
would be necessary to have transponders installed in the steel wheels, as
the TPMS would complain loudly and brightly in the absence of transponders.
The stock transponders, however, would not have fitted properly in the
steel wheels.

I don't know what he's doing now, but for the longest time he simply parked
the 300M for the winter and drove his older Lincoln in the winter. The
Lincoln has no TPMS.

I still think transponders are overly expensive overkill and not worth the
price. The ABS-based system is far cheaper, far more flexible, and almost
as effective. Certainly far more effective than no monitoring at all, and
not much less effective than the transponder system.

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Tegger

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