Saw this at work today.. a CR-V on 22s.
Saw this at work today.. a CR-V on 22s.
You may notice a slight improvement in ride quality when flat.
RX-7 sits on 235/40-17s in the back. Drove it home from storage location (~50mi), noted that it kinda drifted right. Drove it to work (~10mi). Noted, on lunch, that the right rear tire looked maybe a little low.
Sucker was flat. It also doesn't hold air for more than a day.
The neat thing is, they aren't even performance tires, they are snow tires with soft sidewalls.
This is why we have TPMS.
Its difficult to notice a flat tire on anything remotely modern, especially in the rear. I was riding on a donut on the back for a while when I blew a front snow tire in a pothole(which I only noticed half a mile after the fact, with 65 profile tires). One morning I checked the donut pressure, it was good, drove to class, got back in the car 4 hours later, got on the highway, thought it felt kinda funny, felt funnier on a interchange ramp, pulled off, and found out the damn thing only had 10 psi in it, valve stem had sprung a leak.
If I were a typical clueless motorist, I would have drove until it shredded.
I installed my summer wheels and tires again last week. The winter wheels don't have TPMS sensors in them, so I had gotten used to having the little exclamation point on my dash.
It took me about two trips to work to realize that it probably shouldn't be there.
The left rear was down to 10 psi from sitting over the winter...
My e36 had 0psi in its tires when I moved it last time, couldn't even tell by looking at them.....damn RS2's.
Derick Freese wrote: This is why we have TPMS.
This is why I WANT TPMS. When it gets below $200/car, I plan on buying, or at least looking for an even lamer excuse.
In reply to Maroon92: I did the same. My summer tires did not lose even 1 PSI.
I put a piece of tape over my light in the winter. Less distraction.
TPMS has saved me twice.
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