VTECPWR

It is time to replace my tire pressure gauge. I am looking for the best tire pressure gauge for a reasonable price, would like to keep it below $100.

travis

This should help:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=715937
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=151639
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=145287
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=125290

VTECPWR

I should have done a search myself. Thanks for posting the links. I was hoping someone had found something different than what I was coming accross. I would really like a gauge like Griots used to carry -- displays within .1 increments, digital, and with a bleeder. I see a lot of people like the mechanical gauges, I am a bit hesitent as I have seen them knocked out of calibration by drops.

descartesfool

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Some people just have to stop relying so much on the search function. I personally like new info as well. So I searched, but outside this board. How about this price

http://www.q3wholesale.com/ms4720.htm

for this beauty. What more could you want, digital accuracy, bleeder valve, and stainless braided hose!!!



The manual says this gauge is accurate to within 1% of reading, from 0-99 psi.

I bought four of the MS-4000 series Accutire gauges when I saw them on sale at Sears for about $15. I don't really are for the nose on them, but the amazing thing is that they all read exactly the same, at say 33.5 psi on a given tire. Leads one to feel confident. My confidence in dial type gauges is much lower. I have had many and they mostly all read differently. I searched for a test or review of gauges, but I only found a reference on some board about someone who had seen a test, on the net or in Automobile mag, that said that virtually all digital gauges they tested were dead accurate within 0.5 psi, and dial gauges could easily be off by 5 psi. If anyone has seen such an article, post a link.

I think accuracy and not just consistency is important. What if you lose your gauge that was 2 psi too low and buy a new one that is 2 psi too high? What will that do to your setups? I think many statements on the links on this board seem to state that accuracy in a tire gauge is not important. I disagree. Last time I visited a Formula car shop, they used a very large face (5-6") dial 30 psi gauge from the karting world that they has calibrated regularly, and they set tire pressure to within 1/4 lb. The engineer said it was one of their major car tuning variables. He showed how the corner weights changed more than he would like by removing 1/4 psi from one tire due to a change in tire diameter. This was the engineer for the North American Fran-AM winning car in 2003. A little more accurate than I need, but it shows the trend required.

For something a little more high end, look at this one:





"The manufacturer's specification for a X2Pi used to read pressure is, +/- 0.02% of the reading from 0 to 20% of full scale and 0.1% of the reading from and 20 to100% of full scale. That's a phenomenally high level of accuracy for a tire gauge. Our gauge, serial number 402520, was tested on 1/28/04 and was well under the maximum tolerance for every temperature and every pressure level measured. The test results are printed on this calibration sheet which is tucked inside the X2Pi's case."

and read about it here:
http://www.corvetteforum.com/r...ID=19


Modified by descartesfool at 5:03 PM 4/24/2004

VTECPWR

I read the article on the Crystal Tire pressure gauge. It is a bad *** unit, just overkill for what I need/more than I am willing to pay. I considered the Accutire gauge you have posted, but in the end went with a longacre digital gauge. Griots garage used to build a gauge that would have been perfect, but it is no longer listed.

Thanks for the helpful post.