Re: Auto Digital Tire Pressure Gauge Survey

AC proclaimed:

> Dear all newsgroup reader,
>
> I am trying to do a survey on driver's willingness of purchasing a
> Digital Tire Pressure Gauge, to ensure driving safety.

Why purchase one? Why not just wait until you get a halfway decent
one free for some promotion or other? They aren't at all expensive.

As for "ensure driving safety" there isn't one single solitary thing
that a digital guage can do that a good old fashioned inexpensive
guage cannot. It has nothing to do with the guage, first you have
to convince the driver to *use* one.

In article <W_4xd.211578$5K2.119367@attbi_s03>, [email protected] says...
>
>
>AC proclaimed:
>
>> Dear all newsgroup reader,
>>
>> I am trying to do a survey on driver's willingness of purchasing a
>> Digital Tire Pressure Gauge, to ensure driving safety.
>
> Why purchase one? Why not just wait until you get a halfway decent
> one free for some promotion or other? They aren't at all expensive.
>
> As for "ensure driving safety" there isn't one single solitary thing
> that a digital guage can do that a good old fashioned inexpensive
> guage cannot. It has nothing to do with the guage, first you have
> to convince the driver to *use* one.

I say why depend on a device that uses batteries than can go dead when you
can get another device that same job just as well and does not use batteries?
Not to mention that the regular tire gauge is many times cheaper than the
digital ones.
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Alex

Alex Rodriguez wrote:

> I say why depend on a device that uses batteries than can go dead when you
> can get another device that same job just as well and does not use batteries?
> Not to mention that the regular tire gauge is many times cheaper than the
> digital ones.

I am not sure I agree with this. Digitial gauges are pretty
cheap these days - $10 or so (0.5 lb increments). A good
analog gauge is just about the same. A "stick" gague may be
cheaper, but I consider them crap.

Ed

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, C. E. White wrote:

> I am not sure I agree with this. Digitial gauges are pretty
> cheap these days - $10 or so (0.5 lb increments).

Yep, with finest Chinese "quality".

> A "stick" gague may be cheaper, but I consider them crap.

You never met my "stick" gauge, which was most assuredly not cheap and is
most assuredly not crap.

The form factor of the gauge has nothing to do with its accuracy,
precision or quality.

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 16:56:09 -0500, Alex Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote:

||In article <W_4xd.211578$5K2.119367@attbi_s03>, [email protected]
says...
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||>
||>AC proclaimed:
||>
||>> Dear all newsgroup reader,
||>>
||>> I am trying to do a survey on driver's willingness of purchasing a
||>> Digital Tire Pressure Gauge, to ensure driving safety.
||>
||> Why purchase one? Why not just wait until you get a halfway decent
||> one free for some promotion or other? They aren't at all expensive.
||>
||> As for "ensure driving safety" there isn't one single solitary thing
||> that a digital guage can do that a good old fashioned inexpensive
||> guage cannot. It has nothing to do with the guage, first you have
||> to convince the driver to *use* one.
||
||I say why depend on a device that uses batteries than can go dead when you
||can get another device that same job just as well and does not use batteries?
||Not to mention that the regular tire gauge is many times cheaper than the
||digital ones.

The biggest brand of digital gauges warrants the gauge for life, including
batteries.
Texas Parts Guy

"Alex Rodriguez" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> In article <W_4xd.211578$5K2.119367@attbi_s03>, [email protected]
says...

> > As for "ensure driving safety" there isn't one single solitary thing
> > that a digital guage can do that a good old fashioned inexpensive
> > guage cannot. It has nothing to do with the guage, first you have
> > to convince the driver to *use* one.
>
> I say why depend on a device that uses batteries than can go dead when you
> can get another device that same job just as well and does not use
batteries?
> Not to mention that the regular tire gauge is many times cheaper than the
> digital ones.
> -------------
> Alex

My experience: I had terrible tire life on a car with small tires (155 R13
/ 80) when using 2 different stick gauges. The tire life doubled when I got
a decent digital gauge. Larger tires are not so sensitive though.

You can get a fine digital gauge for $10 or $20...the cost of a few gallons
of gas...I'll never use a stick gauge again.

-John

Alex Rodriguez proclaimed:

> I say why depend on a device that uses batteries than can go dead when you
> can get another device that same job just as well and does not use batteries?
> Not to mention that the regular tire gauge is many times cheaper than the
> digital ones.

Not really. A perfectly serviceable digital of the strain gauge
variety will cost under $20. You *can* buy bourdon tube mechanicals
such as the cheaper Accu-gauge units for less than that, but none of
the important innards are of good brass and bronze. A good mechanical
that won't move 3-5 pounds the first time you bounce it off the
pavement will run well over a hundred bucks...or at least all the
ones I've ran into are in that range--or more. Of course a super
accurate digital with a piezo style transducer, calibration, etc.
will run in the $300 range, with more common prices for 0.1 lb
digital pro gauges in the $100 range, e.g. the Pressure Inc.

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:30:54 GMT, Lon <[email protected]> wrote:

||
|| You *can* buy bourdon tube mechanicals
|| such as the cheaper Accu-gauge units for less than that, but none of
|| the important innards are of good brass and bronze. A good mechanical
|| that won't move 3-5 pounds the first time you bounce it off the
|| pavement will run well over a hundred bucks...or at least all the
|| ones I've ran into are in that range--or more. Of course a super
|| accurate digital with a piezo style transducer, calibration, etc.
|| will run in the $300 range, with more common prices for 0.1 lb
|| digital pro gauges in the $100 range, e.g. the Pressure Inc.

Where do yo find such gauges?
Texas Parts Guy

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
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>
>
>
>Alex Rodriguez wrote:
>
>> I say why depend on a device that uses batteries than can go dead when you
>> can get another device that same job just as well and does not use
batteries?
>> Not to mention that the regular tire gauge is many times cheaper than the
>> digital ones.
>
>I am not sure I agree with this. Digitial gauges are pretty
>cheap these days - $10 or so (0.5 lb increments). A good
>analog gauge is just about the same. A "stick" gague may be
>cheaper, but I consider them crap.

You consider them crap, in my experience they work just fine. I checked it
against a nice dial gauge I also own and it was close enough for me, within
1 psi.
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Alex