Nitrogen in tires
On Jul 5, 10:59*pm, "mgg" wrote:
"Don White" wrote in message
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A tire pressure gauge is a couple of bucks at Auto Zone.
Eisboch
Ever try to read tire pressure at 70 MPH? *8)
Good point.
I am not sure I am all for the gadgets and high tech, computer
controlled wizardry in cars.
KISS. * I think about the '06 M5 I had (all two of them). * They
probably represented the state-of-the-art in electronic, CPU controlled
operation that year, from the engine management systems to the
electronically controlled SMG transmission that operates the clutch
electronically.
They were both a disaster. * Traded in the first one because it had too
many software "bugs". *Transmission would freeze up in neutral. *The
famous "Red Cog of Death" *would appear on the driver's display and your
only option was to call a flatbed. * Traded that in for one that had a
later build date that reportedly had the bugs worked out. * *Nope.. * Car
was a spectacular performer, with 500 hp and handling that could safely
rocket you along at over 200 mph if you were so inclined *(I wasn't),
but the damn thing wouldn't move half the time due to a software
malfunction.
That's when I traded it for the Porsche 911TT. * Porsche remains
somewhat "old school" and other than those electronics that are
absolutely necessary, it was a driver's car. * I like that.
Ironically though, it was Porsche, back in the late 80's, that developed
the first tire pressure monitoring system, based on speed sensors on all
four wheels.
Eisboch
I must have been thinking of some other over-priced replacement car part.
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