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Forum: Technology August 20th 20, 10:24 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 25
Views: 2,884
Posted By [email protected]
Split/Different Front and Rear Cold Tire Pressures

Xeno:

My particular mid-size front-wheel drive specifies 32psi, front and rear.
It already has 'light'(easy) steering due to its wide, 50-series low profile
tires.

So for a while, I took it upon...
Forum: Technology August 19th 20, 12:43 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 25
Views: 2,884
Posted By [email protected]
Split/Different Front and Rear Cold Tire Pressures

AMuzi:

Corvair

The Corvair had a Front/Rear weight difference that
definitely warranted the big difference between
recommended front and rear cold tire pressures.

The cars I'm talking about...
Forum: Technology August 16th 20, 01:42 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 4
Views: 1,013
Posted By [email protected]
City Data Automotive Forums:

Steve W:

Nope. No politics this time! It's a common sense issue, not
a political one. Since my early forties, about ten years ago,
I've been shifting more frequently from Park into Neutral...
Forum: Technology August 15th 20, 11:13 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 4
Views: 1,013
Posted By [email protected]
City Data Automotive Forums:

This Moderator/Admin, "PJSaturn", had a personal vendetta on me.

I recently proposed moving "Neutral" from between Reverse & Drive on Automatic transaxle
vehicles, a good conversation ensued, no...
Forum: Technology July 31st 20, 03:19 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 26
Views: 2,382
Posted By [email protected]
What metric do you use to estimate remaining brake pad life on atypical economy sedan?

The Real Bev:

So when the brakes sound like a fog horn when
applied, it's: skip local mechanic(appt required for
next week!!) and head straight for 'Brakes-In-A-
Box'!
Forum: Technology July 7th 20, 05:13 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

UPDATE
Longacre #52003 - 'Deluxe' Analog Tire Gauge

I took the above, plus an older Milton shirt-pocket gauge that I found in my garage
and cleaned all the grime off of, to my local mechanic...
Forum: Technology July 3rd 20, 10:44 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Longacre Racing #52-52003 Deluxe analoge Tire Gauge: http://www.longacreracing.com/products.aspx?itemid=1716&prodid=95470&pagetitle=Deluxe-2-%C2%BD

1. Unboxing - Typical Longacre retail hook-top...
Forum: Technology July 3rd 20, 04:51 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

The Real Bev:

"thing in the corner"

Did you get knocked across the room? :D
Forum: Technology July 3rd 20, 03:19 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Hank Rogers addendum:

Where DOES one get a decent gauge calibrated?

And alsom who in this day and age still has a 'master gauge' to check one's own against?
Forum: Technology July 3rd 20, 01:57 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Hank Rogers:

Calibration every 2-3 years might be enough for a gauge used by a consumer,
esp. if they invested $50 or more in the gauge. I paid mid-$40s for the aforementioned
Deluxe Longacre,...
Forum: Technology July 2nd 20, 09:13 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Amuzi:

This http://www.longacreracing.com/products.aspx?itemid=1716&prodid=95470&pagetitle=Deluxe-2-%C2%BD”-Tire-Gauge

just arrived in the mail today, and I am most impressed by its heft and...
Forum: Technology July 2nd 20, 11:14 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Xeno wrote:

>No algorithm needed. They just translate a voltage signal
>from the pressure transducer into a digital value. Or they
>could use a variance from a reference voltage. Either way,...
Forum: Technology July 1st 20, 08:33 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Steve W. wrote:
- show quoted text -
> I;m not real worried if the
>tires are 33psi, or 35 psi, as long as they all read the same on the
>same gauge.

>--
>Steve W.

__________
Forum: Technology July 1st 20, 08:21 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Steve W.

I guess more broadly: mechanical/analog gauges more directly measure the tire pressure, vs
digital models, which probably use some algorithm to determine the pressure?

Again, I've spent...
Forum: Technology July 1st 20, 12:52 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 16
Views: 2,244
Posted By [email protected]
Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

Tire Pressure Gauges - Analog Vs. Digital

The purpose of my inquiry, after two months of experience with two digital tire gauges, is not to find
out which brands of gauge are better than others,...
Forum: Technology June 23rd 20, 11:39 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 6
Views: 1,146
Posted By [email protected]
Torque Wrench Safety Question

Are you "computer" Paul?

If so, thanks for your advice in that newsgroup, and glad to see you away from the IT room,
lol and out in the garage! :)

Still waiting on some thought about my concern...
Forum: Technology June 23rd 20, 11:32 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 6
Views: 1,146
Posted By [email protected]
Torque Wrench Safety Question

Paul wrote:
When you'd been fiddling like that, you're supposed to
drive 50 miles, then recheck them. Apply torque wrench
and see if any have come loose.

If they're fine after the 50 miles, and...
Forum: Technology June 7th 20, 06:58 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 24
Views: 2,484
Posted By [email protected]
Adjust headlight

Mark Olson wrote:

>All the cars I have rented _in Europe_ have headlight
>adjustment dials in the cockpit, but none of the cars
>I've driven _in America_ have them, whether Japanese,
>European or...
Forum: Technology June 7th 20, 06:41 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 24
Views: 2,484
Posted By [email protected]
Adjust headlight

Xeno wrote:
>You need to look a little harder. Such adjustments are not
>uncommon. I have owned at least two cars with such things
>and they are by no means up market models.
_________
Years,...
Forum: Technology June 7th 20, 01:32 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 4
Views: 1,288
Posted By [email protected]
Stop AC vent from changing positions

Andy: Stick a Nickel- or Quarter-sized piece of cardboard between one side of the
moving part of the vent and the enclosure.

Problem solved.
Forum: Technology June 7th 20, 01:30 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 24
Views: 2,484
Posted By [email protected]
Adjust headlight

Xeno:

I've driven plenty of domestic and foreign post-2000 cars, and I have yet to see any with
dashboard controls for the aim of headlights. Everything from Impalas to Accords, Optimas
to...
Forum: Technology June 7th 20, 01:26 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 6
Views: 1,146
Posted By [email protected]
Forum: Technology June 6th 20, 01:14 AM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 24
Views: 2,484
Posted By [email protected]
Adjust headlight

Steve W:

Provision of X and Y adjustment of motor vehicle
headlights is common sense. I think even as recent
as my 2008 Kia Optima had both.
Forum: Technology June 5th 20, 02:35 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 24
Views: 2,484
Posted By [email protected]
Adjust headlight

Steve W. wrote:
>Nothing but a vertical adjuster on that vehicle.

Cheaping out on such a simple, basic adjustment, for how much
profit? smh...
Forum: Technology June 4th 20, 08:02 PM Posted to rec.autos.tech
Replies: 24
Views: 2,484
Posted By [email protected]
Adjust headlight

Year/Make/Model?

Basic info to help us guide you.

Sometimes the adjustment for one axis or the other is just in a really weird location
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