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fall? yeah, the front will fall off soon
Yeah, that’s not very typical. I’d like to make that point.
remember to tow your car outside the environment if it needs work
It never really occurred to me that most people don’t check their tire pressure once or twice a month and let it get that bad.
I check mine when my car tells me to <shrug>
In the last month, the high temps where I live have dropped approximately 40 degrees.
That enough to drop tires pressure to the point of the light coming on if you’re not checking it at least biweekly
Which biweekly are you referring to?
Every two weeks.
Twice a week seems excessive…
Exactly
Or they made their seasonal change from their summers to winters, and if, like me, you have separate rims so you can easily do it at home, you now get to drive around with the car whining about no tpms. Because fucking cars can’t have this as built in diagnostic functionality in these giant computers on wheels.
When I have time I’ll pop over to a shop that can reprogram them to the second set, but it’s not exactly priority numero uno.
I’ve just realised I’ve completely stopped checking mine since switching to an EV. I can go a couple of months without even stopping at a service station, so the old habit is broken.
Edit: For the confused people replying to me, we don’t call them gas stations outside of North America. We call them service stations or petrol stations.
I’m sure we do dumb things too, but calling a liquid “gas” is fucking comical btw 😆
Why do you need to stop so often at a service station with an EV? I thought the second plus was not having to get it serviced as much.
What did you stop for at a service station before? Do you mean filling the car up?
I used to be somebody who checked tire pressures much more often. Oil level too.
But even though our current vehicles are 12 and 13 years old, the tire pressure monitoring works right away on a cold day, and its threshold before turning on the light isn’t super low. It’s high 20s psi I believe.
It’s not that I want to ignore the workings of my car. I often enjoy using my phone olconnected to my bluetooth OBDII scanner to provide a bunch of extra gauges. I drive an old Mazda3 and it doesn’t even have a temperature gauge, just a light. So it’s cool being able to monitor coolant temperature, voltage, actual gallons of fuel in the tank, and various other sensors if I feel like it.
You don’t get it. Snow tires.
You buy a second set of wheels, and its more expensive to add TPMS so you don’t and you just get the light 4 months of the year.
Have snow tires, don’t have this issue. If I didn’t have that measurement thing then I could just reset the system to zero.
It only happens if you have a separate set of rims for your snow tires (and those rims have no TPMS sensors installed)
I’m not sure how the terminology works in English. I change the tires I open the bolts and take the tire off and it just has that small round metal part left where the brake is and that the bolts attach to. If without rims means just the rubber part then I haven’t really seen that sort of tire changing where I live. I wonder how you change such tires yourself, the rubber part seems pretty firmly in place
Oh so you are changing the rims in fact. Not sure why you’re not getting a tire pressure warning in that case, either the second set of rims has sensors, or there’s something wrong with the system
But to answer your question, around here most people who only change the tires (rubber) and re-use the same rims (metal) have it done professionally. It’s not impossible to do it at home but it’s generally not worth the trouble
“That bad” is dropping from 32psi to 28 on the first cold day of the year. Doesn’t matter, I fill up once I’m back home.
Happy tireween to you too.
nice to have a low pressure holiday.
Do you mean the time of year where a battery cell goes bad, ruining both the battery and the alternator while you have an Uber passenger in the car an hour from home and every system in your car is cartoonishly shutting off one by one?
Because YEP I GUESS IT’S ABOUT THAT TIME. :(
Is that the symbol for a cauldron? I don’t get it
I don’t own any horse shoes.
Is it normal for tire emergency lights to come on in autumn?
Just the low tire pressure warning.
Cold temperatures reduce the pressure, and since air leaks out of tires naturally over time, it is quite common for the change in temperature to suddenly put your tires below the threshold for normal tire pressure.
The cold weather compresses air which reduces the pressure… there no need for a leak for this to take place.
As soon as the day warms or the tires warm (with use) the pressure returns… it’s a pain the ass and I have yet to find a proper source that explains what the proper thing to do is.
I just top up my tires in a cold morning, and now they run 4 psi over the mark when they warm up.
We usually get a big enough quick drop in temperatures that I get this each autumn. Even with new tires
Yes, if the tires were close to the cut off before the temp dropped. The sensor in my vehicle readstire pressure about 10% low in colder weather, which can be enough to trigger the warning on chilly mornings if I haven’t topped it off during the summer.
My winter rims don’t have sensors because those cost money.
I live somewhere that I can’t get away with all season tires from late October until late April.
Same
It’s only normal if you’ve been neglecting to check your tire pressure on a regular basis. Unless you live in a place with a massive yearly temperature differential, properly inflated tires won’t lose enough pressure to trigger the TPMS light once temps drop in the autumn.
Prevent a blowout: please stay on top of your tire pressure, people. Check it at least once a month.
I think you need to check your definition of “massive”. Coming from the opposite perspective, I assumed that essentially everyone sees this when the season turns.
Question for the Lemmings down under: is fall/autumn when it gets cold or when the calendar says October? What season do you call it when the weather turns cold? Or does it just not?
But tpms means the car tells me when the tyre pressure gets low?
It’s only normal if you’ve been ~~neglecting to check your tire pressure on a regular basis. ~~
It’s only normal if you’ve been living in an area when temperature drops significantly.
There FIFY
Isn’t it great how cars just have like random lights that come on whose design is so ambiguous that there’s no possible chance you could work out what they’re trying to indicate.
My car occasionally displays a blue tick, what the hell is that supposed to mean? It only comes up maybe once every 4 or 5 months so it’s really hard to work out a pattern.
My car occasionally displays a blue tick, what the hell is that supposed to mean? It only comes up maybe once every 4 or 5 months so it’s really hard to work out a pattern.
I got the same issue with my BMW, except it’s a green arrow pointing either left or right that flashes and makes a ticking sound. Only lasts for a few seconds though.
Oh that sounds like the swerve suddenly into another lane without looking light.
Dont you have the manual? I did buy a used car and it had manual
I bought a used car and it had not just the manual, but the original sales offer to the Estonian government (a specific department of it that I won’t name because that’s too specific). And this was a pre-EUR one, to give you an estimate of how long it’s been in the glove compartment.
But in general it’s been hit and miss for manuals with used cars. Sometimes I’ve looked them up online, but not all are easily found.
I just got a used Cadillac and it has this little blue icon quite frequently. Had to get out the manual. It means I’m driving over the speed limit. Fuck’s sake what a useless light.
I used to drive a Sprinter, and on the dashboard was a light with iconography of waves, wind, and raindrops. I concluded that it was warning me of a storm at sea.
I thought this was some bent over woman sign
The dot being her dot
The line being the groove of her spine
The symbol meaning get laid
35 to 27…buy a small compressor, its handy
Get a first gen Porsche Cayenne for a couple thousand and you get a hose from passenger footwell. Uses air from the air suspension lol
Fuel economy is as abysmal and it MAY eventually need an engine rebuild. Still best car I’ve ever owned.
Get an air pump that runs off your car battery. Don’t get a jump/pump as those are more expensive and they break. Get one with a flashlight.
It’s one of those cheap purchases that makes a world of difference.
Don’t buy the cheapest tho, look online for one that has metal piston & cogs (are are only slightly more expensive, or perhaps even not more expensive).
The plastic ones break easily when heated (5 ~ 10 minutes).
But yeah, why not just pump the air at gas stations?
They usually have to recertify the gauges once a year.You are absolutely right about heat. They get hot
As for free air, more and more gas stations have attached credit card machines to their pumps. Having to hunt for ones that haven’t had become a chore. Also, it is so helpful to just have it on hand at any time.
Most places still have a few gas stations with free air!
I just checked my tires, somehow only lost 0-1 psi per tire since April. I did check them on a hot day so that probably helped.
we top ours up at tireween and tirester every year
Hah, nailed it. Happened this morning. First frost this year.
I live in Taiwan and it’s been 90-95 since February.
At least one of my sensors is busted. The gauge says it’s fine. Looks like I’ll be fixing the issue with electrical tape.
When living in Florida I used to air up my tires constantly because of the temperature overnight. Now in Oregon it’s been 2 years and it’s only been filled once during an oil change.
