tpms light came on

Which aribag are you going to send it to. Oh, I'm thinking gasbag.

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- dillon I am not invalid

The RMS Titanic sank on April 15th.
Taxes are due on April 15th.
Coincidence? I think not.

 

Yup, EVERY manual says to never bleed air from a hot tire.

I've autocrossed with a lot of people who use bleed valve guages. If
you're up for the ~$400 price tag.

That's the point. Not that they were "equally" low but that one may
have been "too" low and the others were "just above" the limit.

But I always check mine. For exactly the two reasons you and I
mention.

The sensor is actually ABS based (as opposed to the F1 sensors that
really are pressure based). ABS measures the rotational speed to
figure out which tire is locking up. Unless your tires, rotars, pads,
pistons and master are all incredibly tuned up, one tire will lock
first. Stay up late tonight (if you're in the western hemisphere) and
watch one of the bought drivers in the GP of China square off a tire.

That is pure BS. Doing that introduces a huge number of safety and
reliabilty issues.

A lot of drivers I AX with (including me) will sometimes chalk the
tires looking for roll. Too low a pressure and too tight/fast a turn
will roll a tire off the rim. I've seen it.

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- dillon I am not invalid

The RMS Titanic sank on April 15th.
Taxes are due on April 15th.
Coincidence? I think not.

 

Um, TMI, dude, TMI.

 

How old are you? The first xxx years I had to file with the IRS taxes
were due 03/15, the same as business. The cute saying back then was
"beware the Ides of March", but most people wouldn't get that nowadays.

 

In that case, probably Rush Limbaugh.

<g>

 

Small world, I ended up watching much of this race on SPEED last Sunday.
Sorry to say, I found it fairly boring.

Haven't seen the term before, what do you mean?

 

I'm gonna guess auto-cross.

Which is a combination race and scavenger hunt, or something like
that.

J.

 

Thanks, I know about that (IIRC we called them gymkhanas a few decades
ago), but how (or why) does one "chalk the tires"?

 

Never AX'ed, myself, but I'd wager that you just put a chalk line down the
sidewall and onto the tread. Where the line gets scrubbed away, the tire's
touching the pavement.

The idea would be to maximize the amount of tread remaining in contact with
the road instead of getting lifted off as the sidewall rolls under.

 

Thanks.