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RTA NEWS YOU CAN USE
July 11, 2014

THE FOLLOWING ABOUT TIRE GAUGES AND AIR PRESSURE WAS SENT TO ME BY A GOOD FRIEND AND I WANT TO SHARE IT WITH OUR READERS.
I PROMISE IT IS WELL WORTH READING!

Just yesterday, I went to check my car's tire pressures, and my fancy digital gauge had a dead battery and my old stick gauge produced radically different readings each time I "sticked" the same tire. I dug out a dial gauge I'd used very little, and it didn't work at all. I also have an electric air pump I bought at Sears, and the gauge on it never matches any other gauge I use.

How difficult can it be to make a decent tire gauge for CARS? I shudder to think of how much money I've spent over the years, buying new ones. I sometimes think it's a symptom of the fact that nobody much cares about their air pressure until they don't have any.

I've been to auto parts stores, hardware stores, etc., and the result is always the same: Price is determined by features, not by quality.

It would be nice to be able, once, to buy a good, accurate, reliable gauge, even if it cost a bit more than the ones on offer everywhere. It's almost as if we insist we want people to use a gauge on their tires, but refuse to provide them with a decent tool for doing so. Truck tire gauges are probably much better built, but the range is all-wrong.

It's another of those paradoxes, just as when we had all those problems with tires on Ford Explorers: That was just about the time when the last of the "free" air pumps disappeared. Nobody wants to go to a tire store for a "free" check, because they know the tire store will make them wait, then try to sell them something.

We need two things: Truly free air and decent gauges!

If you have comments about the above please send us an email to info@retreadtire.org and we will be happy to print them in a future RTA NEWS YOU CAN USE memo.

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

One can light dozens of candles from a single one
without taking away from it's life. Happiness is not
diminished when it is shared.
 - Buddha