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Tire Pressure Monitoring System
On Thu, 25 May 2017 07:00:38 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 5/25/2017 6:52 AM, Keyser Söze wrote: Our toyotas show individual tire pressures. Accurate, too...checked it a couple of times with a good tire pressure gauge. Maybe Greg will eventually become a believer that *some* technological advances actually work pretty well. :-) If I didn't make a pretty good living fixing those technological advances I would not be as skeptical. The problem is not how well they work, it is when you start depending on them too much and they fail. As I recently said of the autonomous car, it will give a whole new meaning to the "blue screen of death". |
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Tire Pressure Monitoring System
On Thu, 25 May 2017 06:55:10 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: Pace Arrow was a piece of crap, BTW. === Intereresting. I've always thought they looked pretty good when I've seen them on the road. Who would you recommend instead? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On Thu, 25 May 2017 11:29:20 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2017 06:25:42 -0400, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2017 17:16:05 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2017 13:34:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: 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. I am not convinced these things are that accurate. It's not spot on accuracy I worry about. It's losing 10-20 lbs rapidly, or the temperature increasing rapidly that worries me. I like the idea of a warning alarm when either occurs. That is what the sensor is meant to do. I still want to use a real gauge to inflate them. It would be unlikely that someone would try to use the sensor for inflation, but I suppose it could be done. Again, how do you know your gauge is accurate? |
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Tire Pressure Monitoring System
On 5/25/2017 12:27 PM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2017 11:29:20 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2017 06:25:42 -0400, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2017 17:16:05 -0400, wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2017 13:34:15 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: 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. I am not convinced these things are that accurate. It's not spot on accuracy I worry about. It's losing 10-20 lbs rapidly, or the temperature increasing rapidly that worries me. I like the idea of a warning alarm when either occurs. That is what the sensor is meant to do. I still want to use a real gauge to inflate them. It would be unlikely that someone would try to use the sensor for inflation, but I suppose it could be done. Again, how do you know your gauge is accurate? Greg probably had it traced back to the National Bureau of Standards. Me? I'll just inflate until my horn beeps. Or the tire blows up. Whatever occurs first. :-) --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:05:49 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2017 06:55:10 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Pace Arrow was a piece of crap, BTW. === Intereresting. I've always thought they looked pretty good when I've seen them on the road. Who would you recommend instead? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com These Allegros get very high marks. Also expensive. http://www.tiffinmotorhomes.com/allegro The folks we go with frequently have a Winnebago Journey: https://winnebagoind.com/products/cl...urney/overview They've had some problems, but are overall pretty happy with the rig. Both of those are diesel pushers, which adds to the cost and the quality of the coach. Me, I prefer a 5th wheel and a pickup. Motorhomes, like Luddite said, can become a big pain in the butt, and you still need something to get around in once you're at the campsite. I have yet to see an advantage to a motorhome which justifies all the extra costs. Yeah, wife can cook or take a nap on the go. Not worth it to me. My wife seems to have little trouble sleeping in the Silverado. |
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Tire Pressure Monitoring System
On 5/25/2017 1:02 PM, justan wrote:
"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 5/25/2017 12:05 PM, wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2017 06:55:10 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Pace Arrow was a piece of crap, BTW. === Intereresting. I've always thought they looked pretty good when I've seen them on the road. Who would you recommend instead? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com At the risk of offending some, anything other than an RV made by Fleetwood. When Pace Arrow was really Pace Arrow back in the old days, it was considered to be a high-end, quality built RV or motorhome. That's what I remembered. But somewhere in it's history it was acquired by Fleetwood. That's when they turned to crap. In fairness, not all Fleetwood RV's are bad. The higher end diesel pushers, etc. are popular and apparently don't suffer from the poor quality that the one I had suffered from. Doesn't matter what you buy , they all have issues. The consumer is the quality control. It's not like buying a car. Small, wooden blocks glued to a skinny, painted metal stiffener that the side panels are screwed to with what amounted to sheet rock screws isn't my idea of quality. Nor was a rubber gas line feeding the generator that made a 90 degree turn across the frame that had been cut with an oxygen/acetylene torch and left with all the rough slag that was chaffing through the gas line. Nor was the stupid painted plastic that is used for the entire front and grill that was so rough any attempt to wax it only left white wax residue that was impossible to remove. Nor was the brake line that let go in less than 6 months causing it to have to be towed away with a gigantic tow truck. Who can forget the melted ice cream? Other than that, it was pretty good I guess. :-) |
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On 5/25/2017 1:06 PM, Poco Deplorevole wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2017 12:05:49 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2017 06:55:10 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Pace Arrow was a piece of crap, BTW. === Intereresting. I've always thought they looked pretty good when I've seen them on the road. Who would you recommend instead? --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com These Allegros get very high marks. Also expensive. http://www.tiffinmotorhomes.com/allegro The folks we go with frequently have a Winnebago Journey: https://winnebagoind.com/products/cl...urney/overview They've had some problems, but are overall pretty happy with the rig. Both of those are diesel pushers, which adds to the cost and the quality of the coach. Me, I prefer a 5th wheel and a pickup. Motorhomes, like Luddite said, can become a big pain in the butt, and you still need something to get around in once you're at the campsite. I have yet to see an advantage to a motorhome which justifies all the extra costs. Yeah, wife can cook or take a nap on the go. Not legally, she can't. You can get away with it unless there's an accident. |
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