On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 3:42:36 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 5/24/2017 3:18 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 2:24:52 PM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 5/24/2017 2:06 PM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2017 13:34:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 5/24/2017 12:40 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 12:29:43 PM UTC-4, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Wed, 24 May 2017 12:19:22 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 24 May 2017 10:35:03 -0400, Poco Deplorevole
wrote:

Anyone use one of these systems? I'm thinking of putting this on the RV. Seen too many horrific
results of blowouts on the highway.

http://eezrvproduct.com/products/tir...systems-tpms-4

We have them on the Lincoln. Expect to replace some sensors whenever
they break down a tire because the tire guys usually trash them.

I suppose I could always take off the sensors before any tire work is done.

I think Greg is talking about the factory internal sensors. Both my car and my wife's has those, and we've had new tires mounted and haven't lost one yet. I'm sure it does happen though.

The system you're looking at has external sensors which replace the valve stem cap, so as you say, you could just remove them and replace with the plastic caps until the tire work is complete.

BTW, the Amazon reviews were very positive. One thing I did notice is that someone said the monitor placement was critical in getting a good, solid signal from all the sensors.



I've had several cars with the factory tire pressure monitoring systems.

The Altima I drive now has a cool feature. If you leave the ignition on
(but engine off) when adding air to a tire, the car horn will beep when
the tire is at 32 psi. Don't need a tire gauge.



That is cool.



I've noticed a few minor things that impress me as to some creative
thought on this car. For example, when you use the windshield washer it
first sprays the windshield and then, after a short delay, starts the
wipers. Every other car I've had does both at the same time so you are
dragging dry wipers across a dirty windshield for the first swipe.
Another is if I am in the house and depress the unlock button on the FOB
and then immediately depress it again and hold it depressed the two
front windows go down. Nice for sunny hot days when you left the
windows up and the inside of the car is hot as hell. I am trying to
figure out if there is a way to make them go back up for days that I
left them open and it suddenly starts raining.


My Audi has the window up/down feature in it's software, but Audi chose to not enable it in either my trim level, or in this region (US vs Europe).. With a cable and some software called VAG-COM, I can plug into the CAN BUS that is the data backbone of the car and turn that on as well as several other features, and change scores of the car's settings. Problem is, you can also screw some things up if you aren't careful.

It's due for scheduled maintenance in the next couple of weeks, so I'm going to ask the dealership if they'll make the change. If not I'm betting the indie shop that will be doing the brake job in the next month or so will. You have to use that VAG COM tool to issue commands to do the brake job!



Turns out Nissan allows you to lower the front two windows in the manner
I described but does not allow you to raise them back up using the FOB.
There's an aftermarket module that does it but I am not going to bother
with that. There's also an app for your smartphone called
"NissanConnect" that allows you to do some stuff but I really am not
that interested.

Interesting. I googled it to find out how it works, and it essentially links via bluetooth to your phone, then uses your phone's data plan to access certain features and data it needs. I like that better than Audi's system which makes you purchase a separate sim card with a data plan to use some of their MMI functions, like google maps and street view. Audi also creates a wifi hot-spot in the car so passengers can link a laptop and do work or surf, for example. I didn't renew after the trial period expired because I didn't find it that useful.