Prius tire pressure

It don't take much to use the tyre gauge. I check mine regular.becsuse I cannot trust folks these days for what ever reason. I don't care what the issues are but I have to know so I have to check yeah I don't care if I'm 80 and I have to bend down and check or stand over the person who's pushing the gauge to the tire and look down there at the same time because he may have had a bad day could be tired and wants to go home whatever the reasons it doesn't matter it's too easy for me to just check to make certain rather than somebody telling me these are at 20 and this is a 35 I'm going to know no language barrier no any barriers until I'm in a hoveround

 

hard to know. sometimes it is difficult to tell with radial tires. never trust a dealer to do anything, most of those inspections never get done.
some here mark their tires and oil filter tosee if they actually get changed.

are there any local mechanics that can help you? tires pressure should be checked regularly

 

chalk number on the inside wall.

if they do free air, i would stop in more often.

 

Practice helps. Place the gauge on the valve stem lightly, then rock it, try to ensure it’s square to the valve. Then press down quickly and firmly.

that said, some gauges are more difficult to use. I have about 3 pencil gauges, and one is very prone to leak air; I never use it.

the readings can vary too: if you have several compare. If one’s an outlier it’s likely off.

I use a simple bicycle pump to air up ours, a floor standing model with built-in gauge. Don’t rely on that gauge, but it helps.

a pump like that frees you up, not that hard to use. Nitrogen is a bit of a con game too.

 

To be honest, 20psi air in tires may or may not look any different from tires with 35psi of air on the same car. But more importantly, did they find anything wrong with the tires that lost air? Good tires do not lose 15psi of air in 8 days. Maybe, they did not put enough air in the tires when they did the service?

 

Perhaps since the air loss was on one side someone let your tyres down.

 

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Perhaps since the air loss was on one side someone let your tyres down.

 

Perhaps since the air loss was on one side someone let your tyres down

 

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That’s British for let air out of the tires.

 

Thank you for the translation. Lol.

 

In America when I was a kid we call that cooling the tires we used to go out at night and do that to unsuspecting people and yeah I know

 

All true. For some gauges, regardless of gauge type, you have to be careful to angle it perfectly. That's because the sealing gasket in the gauge is firmer or thinner than others. Mostly out of curiosity, I bought the least expensive tire gauge at Walmart. Not only does it agree closely with my older, pricier gauge, it is much less finicky about orientation.

 

I've got a couple of decent quality stick gauges:

PCL brand (made in England) with 10~120 psi range, quite accurate, but with metal inner barrel the range it can be a little hard to read. Still, the barrel numbers/increments are embossed, very durable.

Milton brand (made in the US), with 10~70 psi range. It has a white-plastic inner barrel, easy to read. It is my go-to gauge, but a couple of quibbles:

1. It's consistently reading 3 pounds high. So for example if I want 33 psi I want to see 36 psi on the gauge. I put a piece of tape on it indicating the error.
2. Minor: the plastic barrel both kPa and psi: the latter is printed-on black lettering and stable so far, but the former are red lettering and almost immediately smeared like crazy.

 

It probably will be easier for you to install some solar wireless TPMS. You can see the tire pressure values whenever you are in the car. No need to worry about tire pressure anymore.

 

Get those higher quality ones that has a analog needle gauge, no air gushes out insert or removal.

Chalk L anywhere on the front left tire. R for front right tire.

 

I wouldn't know about "higher quality ones,," but when I tested a large group of ordinary quality tire pressure gauges a few years ago, analog needle ones generally tended to be worse than the pencil-style ones.
Fit of the gauge chuck on the valve stem has very little to do with whether the gauge is analog needle, pencil, or electronic digital type.

 

If you are going to get new tires, you can get the TMPS sensors replaced at the same time. This will save you tire mounting fees, which is about $60 at Costco for 4 tires.

I purchased batteries and replaced them in the stock TPMS sensors by myself. But that is probably too much work for you.

Regarding the solar wireless TPMS, I bought some no-name from AliExpress for $20+. It has been a few months and I really like it. They are universal, read the reviews on Amazon and get a set you like.