RE: Tire Monitoring System

["Dupree, Jim" <dupree@alldata.com>]

I think it is a neat idea but I can live without it. I see it as helpful
for someone that does not check the tire pressures regularly and is not
likely to stop if it "feels odd". I can usually feel the difference if a
tire is low (significantly low) and I will stop and do something about
it. My wife will tell me "It has felt funny for a couple of days now"
right after I look at it and determine the side wall has been destroyed.
A friend of mine just had this set up installed on his F-40. This is
probable a good application since he does not drive the car regularly
but drives it hard and fast often enough. With tires as wide as the F-40
uses it is hard to visually detect if the tire is a little low from a
slow leak but a little low at 150mph could be more than a little
dangerous. I have not seen the system in action yet , I haven driven the
F-40 in a while :-( , but he is real happy with it and may add it to his
list of toys for the other cars. I was skeptical about the 10 year
battery life but the sensors don't turn on until the car is moving.
Jim Dupree
1984 4ksq
1984 4ks

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>From: 	Rudy Consolacion[SMTP:rconsolacion@kumhotech.com]
>Sent: 	Wednesday, December 17, 1997 1:44 AM
>To: 	quattro@coimbra.ans.net
>Subject: 	Tire Monitoring System
>
>I've come across a Wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring System here at 
work and was wondering what Q-listers thought about it. 
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