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997GT3RS said:
I am thinking to add the TPM to my GT3 and I have some questions.
1. Is it bullet-proof?
2. Where are those sensors located? Inside the tires?
3. Is it transferable to another set of wheels?
4. Is it heavy?
5. Tire pressure and temp monitoring?
Thanks...
Jun 25, 2006 8:58:58 AM
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997GT3RS said:
any pic of the system or sensors would be great...
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997GT3RS said:
Thanks for the info...
do you think this thing will affect the performance of the car? becos of the extra weight in the wheels?
how heavy is the total weight? maybe 1-2 kg?
any pic of the system or sensors would be great...
Jun 25, 2006 2:32:49 PM
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Jim48 said:
It may be standard on the 2007's, as required by U.S. law.
What US law?
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Gnil said:
I tracked my car this week end... as temperature was raising I lowered the tyre pressure, soon to have my TPMS indicating a tyre puncture!!
Very annoying!!!!!!!
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Dan L said:Quote:
Gnil said:
I tracked my car this week end... as temperature was raising I lowered the tyre pressure, soon to have my TPMS indicating a tyre puncture!!
Very annoying!!!!!!!
I think that is a mistake to take out air when the tires start to heat up. The TP pressures recommended for the car are based on COLD temperatures,--not driven yet. Of course they will go up when you start to drive the car. You should not let air out to 'compensate' for the normal physics happening within the tires.
Dan
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Fanch said:
I lower my tyre pressure every time I track it.
The one time I didn't do it, the pressure shot all the way to 2.8 and 3.8 front and rear!
Understeer, understeer and of course, dangerous.
Now, I take at least 0.5 bar from each tyre and maybe even a bar when I know I'm gonna track it all day.
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Fanch said:
I lower my tyre pressure every time I track it.
The one time I didn't do it, the pressure shot all the way to 2.8 and 3.8 front and rear!
Understeer, understeer and of course, dangerous.
Now, I take at least 0.5 bar from each tyre and maybe even a bar when I know I'm gonna track it all day.
So is that mean the TPM is not good for tracking?
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dstrimbu said:
TPMS is critical for the US market. I can't believe that it's taken this long to mandate it.
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dstrimbu said:
TPMS is critical for the US market. I can't believe that it's taken this long to mandate it.
I don't get it. What's wrong with the current system? A fellow motorist tells the operator-with-a-flat to put air in the tire. Or the operator-with-a-flat finally notices at the self-serve he needs air?
How many people die as a result of poorly inflated tires? Ten? Twenty a year? Causes a hundred non-fatal accidents? I guess, YET AGAIN, it's the insurance money/profits which has to enforce this regulation.
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1st997 said:
I believe that TPMS were mandated due to the tire blowout problem causing rolling overs primarily on SUV's. Underpressure tires are a potenial cause of rollovers along with the higher center-of-gravity that SUV's have.
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dstrimbu said:
...that you're back home. Feeling like you left something important behind in Stuttgart? <g>
What's the projected delivery date for the fully-broken-in blue baby?
-don
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Jim48 said:
[How many people die as a result of poorly inflated tires? Ten? Twenty a year? Causes a hundred non-fatal accidents? I guess, YET AGAIN, it's the insurance money/profits which has to enforce this regulation.
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fritz said:
If they pay out less money to pay claims, then only because fewer people have accidents resulting in deaths, injuries, damaged vehicles.
Is that outcome really such a bad outcome for the consumer? I don't think so.
Now you wouldn't get me arriving at the same conclusion if insurance companies were to lobby for all cars to be fitted with speed limiters or a few other bright ideas that they might come up with!
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Jim48 said:
I would have gotten it anyway, as I don't want to damage my expensive wheels, which to me is a reason why the TPMS is worth it. But for those with inexpensive wheels? I guess that I'd like to see the data that the government regulators used to justify mandating the TPMS requirement.
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Jim48 said:
The same issue was made with air bags, where the U.S. government forced manufacturers to provide air bags when they still hadn't worked out all the bugs. I had both driver and passenger air bags on a '92 Ford Taurus SHO that I owned. The things never worked right when I tail-ended a car - I did about $2,500 in damage to my car, really pushed in the front bumper, and the thing never went off. Lucky me as that fact - that the air bag failed to deploy - saved me from getting an inattentive driving ticket from the state police.