What's a good tire gauge?


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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.153.24] on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at 19:55:15 :

Getting ready to head out so I checked the tires in my car. First the dial-type gauge on the air filler hose read 42 psi. I thought that was mighty high so I checked with the stick-type gauge in the glove box. It read 20. So, I got my good gauge, a large US-made instrumentation-quality gauge I've attached with a tee to a clip-on air chuck and with a ball valve between it and the compressor, for filling split-rims from a distance. It read 28 psi. I trust it. But with a chinese dial gauge reading 42 and a chinese stick gauge reading 20, I'd have done as well just to eyeball the tires.

Anybody know who still makes a tire filler with a built-in gauge that's reasonably accurate? I don't obsess over tire pressure like the government's been telling us to do ever since all those Ford Firestone tires blew out, but +/- 10 psi out of 30 psi just isn't good enough. I'm not interested in the "digital" gauges either. If the mechanism is as bad as in my other chinese gauges, all they'll do is give me the wrong answer to 3 decimal places.



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