Re: Linux-hating Dimdows concern trolls, listen up

On 12/21/24 8:43 AM, chrisv wrote:

rbowman wrote:
 

chrisv wrote:

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s/TPMS/TPM/
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Can you tell that I recently bought some new tires for my car?

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Great feature! The wheels my winter tires are mounted on don't have
sensors so I learn to live with the little orange icon.

 My orange icon is off for now, but I also live with it being on, much
of the time.  I swap tires and wheels myself, Spring and Fall, and
don't have the tool to move the car to the alternate set of sensors.
The fscking assholes who made my car thought that it wasn't important
for the computer to be able to remember two sets of sensors and allow
switching between them.  They must have saved an entire dollar.
Assholes.

I've never heard of OEMs requiring a special tool for (re)learning TPMS's, but its apparently a common-enough thing.  I've only had to use some dashboard buttons to push to relearn, but it does look like there's some cheap 'relearn' tools these days; this example's under $10:
<https://www.walmart.com/ip/Universal-Tire-Pressure-Monitor-Activation-Relearn-Assistant-Car-TPMS-Reset-Tool/7740856280>
Of course, the TPMS sensors themselves aren't that cheap...

I read somewhere that newer cars are smart enough to just lock onto
the four sensors that are usually the closest and spinning in unison.
I don't know if that's universal, though.

I've not seen that solution (yet?).  It can be interesting to have 8 sensors active when one paid a tire shop to do the swap and there's the old set in the trunk & new set on the wheels.

My daughter's Accord
doesn't use sensors at all, comparing wheel speeds to determine loss
of pressure.

A clever approach, although it still needs some degree of calibration input in order to know what's "too low", etc.

I learned to use a pressure gauge a long time ago although I finally went
digital. It was hard to get 35.3 psi exactly with the old stick gauges :)

 Mine's analog, but it is a good-quality dial gage that holds peak
pressure.  So, unlike a stick gage, you don't need to be good at that
initial push onto the valve.

These days, the challenge is in remembering to periodically check, as reliability performance makes it easy to go months between actually needing a top-up.
-hh