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Well, how much do you want to spend? >>>
Posted by Kyle [Email] (more from Kyle) on Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:40:03
In Reply to: How does one get an ACCURATE tire pressure gauge?, Bruce A, Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:10:12
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$20, $100, $300....?
Any how accurate/precise do you want/need it to be?
The sky is the limit my friend!
Decide how much you want to spend first, and then find the best gauge that falls within you price range. With a nice, high quality gauge, re-calibration should only be necessary after you've owned it for a few years.
So you can buy one gauge for $60 and hope that you get what you pay for.
OR - you could buy THREE, $10 - $20 gauges from three different manufacturers and compare the readings. I used the latter approach to judge the accuracy of my tire gauge (a nice $20 dial gauge) - I comapred it to two other gauges (at multiple pressures), and all three gauge's readings were nominally equal (assuming that I consider +/- 1psi to be accurate enough).
What are the chances of three different gauges producing the same % error over a wide pressure range? You can even compare to a fourth gauge at a service station as a control measure. When I got new tires, I instructed the mechanic to put 35psi in all four tires and then immediately checked my tire gauge against his reading. This kind of redundant checking makes calibration unneccesary in my opinion.
-Kyle
'91 9000T
152,000mi
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Posts in this Thread:
- How does one get an ACCURATE tire pressure gauge?, Bruce A, Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:10:12
- The new digital gauges for less than $10US, Lu, Mon, 27 Jan 2003 21:51:17
- Well, how much do you want to spend? >>>, Kyle, Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:40:03 <-- Viewing This Message
- Start with a quality guage., Jim Moncrief, Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:42:05
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