nick205
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| posted on 28/4/17 at 08:01 AM |
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Recommend a car tyre pressure guage
Morning all,
I've been checking (and inflating when necessary) SWMBO's car tyres using my bicycle track pump. Suggested pressures are between 2.3 and
3.0 bar for light and heavy loads. This is working OK, but I'm hoping one of you can recommend a tyre pressure guage in the sub £10 price
range. I'm also not averse to a foot pump with a guage either to make tyre inflation easier.
Thanks,
Nick
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cliftyhanger
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| posted on 28/4/17 at 08:08 AM |
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xsykes+tyre+pressure+gauge.TRS0&_nkw=sykes+tyre+pressure+ga
uge&_sacat=0
Had one for years. Decent quality and easy to use.
I think it is accurate, but other gauges are always within a couple of psi, some more, some less. Not sure how to check calibration on a pressure
gauge.
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peter030371
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| posted on 28/4/17 at 09:07 AM |
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Manual tyre pressure gauges are known to 'drift' if knocked about to much. As such I would only ever go for a better quality digital gauge
as the manual ones could arrive in the post 'knocked about' and thus in-accurate from day one even if you look after it 
You can get gauges checked very easily but it will cost £50-£100 a go 
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 28/4/17 at 10:04 AM |
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some of the tiny electric compressors have a digital gauge, and can be set to pump up to a pre-set pressure
ie
http://www.halfords.com/workshop-tools/garage-equipment/tyre-inflators-pressure-gauges/halfords-digital-tyre-inflator
there are cheaper ones too
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 28/4/17 at 07:30 PM |
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see also, this current thread
https://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=208681
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 29/4/17 at 08:18 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by peter030371
Manual tyre pressure gauges are known to 'drift' if knocked about to much. As such I would only ever go for a better quality digital gauge
as the manual ones could arrive in the post 'knocked about' and thus in-accurate from day one even if you look after it
"Digital" does not mean "Accurate"; some of the cheap digital gauges can be very inaccurate right out of the box.
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motivforz
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| posted on 29/4/17 at 10:05 AM |
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I've got two mechanical tyre pressure gauges that read within 1psi of each other, and compare within 3psi of an old footpump.
My bicycle pump however underreads by around 20psi! So that's never used for measuring, only inflating.
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peter030371
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| posted on 29/4/17 at 11:54 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ[/i
"Digital" does not mean "Accurate"; some of the cheap digital gauges can be very inaccurate right out of the box.
Which is why I said a quality gauge
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nick205
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| posted on 2/5/17 at 12:02 PM |
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Thank you chaps, I'll take a look at the suggestions.
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