"D.Duck" 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