I’m rather new to this forum, but I also have years of automotive experience...everything from pursuit driving in law enforcement to my dad racing stock cars and turning wrenches since I was a kid.
Like LokiWolf, i also appreciate TPMS. If I hit a nail while driving, it doesn’t matter how many laps around my Expy i did looking at the tires BEFORE I started driving...what matters is...am I going to slow down and see if there’s a problem or potentially not realize it until it’s not safe to take a corner or worse yet has a blow out? Technology that potentially keeps me and others safer is wonderful. (Or maybe you’re ok with one of us losers lacking TPMS potentially slamming into your vehicle?)
Criticizing people who have a different opinion than you whom you know nothing about is ignorant and uncalled for. I don’t have to be condescending and call you names because you don’t like TPMS. Neither do you have to be condescending and call names do to those who do.
I know how to start my lawnmower and I like my TPMS system.
I was raised to look people in the eye if i disagree with them and do it respectfully. Quit doing it from behind a computer screen...it’s a cheap ass move and it shows your true character.
2007 Ford Expedition Limited
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Law enforcement? That makes two of us, then. So in your career as a patrol officer, you never drove a police pack without TPMS? No Crown Vic, Caprice or Taurus, ever? If so, how did you ever manage to survive a pursuit without it? Could it be that
you can actually feel a low tire on a car or truck by the way it drives?
I've had nails, bolts and other stuff in the tires on more than one occasion, on and off the job. Some were accidental, some were due to a bunch of dipsh*ts leaving nails under tires in our parking lot on purpose. As soon as the car takes off, you can hear it right away. If it's already in motion when you hit the nail, you will hear it too as you slow down. It's akin to having a piece of gravel stuck in the thread of the tire. Ever driven on a gravel road and then back onto asphalt? Yeah, just like that.
As for being "condescending", he better back off calling me a liar. I drove my old truck with a rock-solid PSI for YEARS, without ever adding any air.
According to our friend here, I should've been driving on 4 flats after 6 to 8 months.
Sorry bud, but I've spent he last 20 years dealing with people who attempt to feed me bullsh*t on a daily basis. If not entertaining their b.s. and calling them out on it is considered "condescending" in your book, so be it. I'm no politician and I don't pretend to be.
For what it's worth, you and me have no problem.