With the price of gas over $4/gallon, I have been paying close attention to the maintenance on my car. After using my old tire gauge, I found it was off by about 5 pounds. Ouch! I had pumped my tires to what I thought was 35psi. The new day the gauge said they were at 40psi. I let 5 psi of air out of the tires. When I notice my old gauge bottomed out at 5psi, and didn’t go down to 0. Using the gauge on my compressor, I found my tired were really ay 30psi. Ouch!
I went to target and found the Accutire MS-4350B Tire Gauge. It was $15. They sell another Accutire digital tire gauge for $10, but they were out of stock on that one. So I bought the MS-4350B. It has a programmable feature that allows you to enter the tire pressure for the front and rear tires. This seems to be the only extra feature for the extra $5. And really it is kind of a stupid feature since I can walk the 3 feet the to drivers side door and read the proper tire pressures. Anyway, I bought the $15 Accutire digital tire gauge.
The net morning when my tires were cooled off, I went to measure the tire pressure. I had a heck of a time trying to get the gauge to seal on the valve stem. I kept hearing the hiss of air coming out before I finally got a seal, and got a pressure reading. I bought a tire gauge to messure how much air was in my tires, not how much air is left in my tires after trying to get a frigging reading.
I returned the tire gauge back to Target today and got my money back. What a piece of junk. Don’t buy the Accutire MS-4350B Tire Gauge. Other Accutire tire gauges might be better. I don’t know. I found Accutire MS-5510B Racing Tire Gauge listed on Amazon. That one looks pretty cool. It seems to have the same type of connector that I have for the tire inflator attachment for my compressor has. That connector works great, and leaks no air. But the $55 price tag on the Accutire MS-5510B seems a bit pricey. Maybe I will check to the local auto parts store. I liked my other tire gauge until it broke and was off by 5 psi.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on July 8th, 2008 |