We just got a new suburban at work. I would have preferred an F150 Super Crew with a Fiberglass Shell, but I am not paying for it. Any way the new suburban has all kinds of neat digital readouts on the dash, including tire pressure for each tire. Is this something that could be added to our F150s? If this is like the last suburban, at 60,000 miles it will be a clanking old truck needint lots of work.

 

Companies that offer run flat tires have add on modules that monitor tire pressure, since if a run flat goes flat, handling at first might not make any drastic changes.

Ford's tire pressure monitor system is screwed up anyway IMO...weather changes, light comes on. Rotated your tires, light comes on. Tires are cold, light comes on...

 

Its pricey!

http://www.dakotadigital.com/

Dave

 

It's something that is coming soon on all vehicles. By law.

See - http://www.nhtsa.gov/portal/site/nht...36c1046108a0c/

 

Toyota's isn't much better. The wife has a highlander with it and it is a PITA. Turns on for 2psid and you have to finger f*ck the reset switch with one leg out the door, other hand waving in the air, planets in alignment...you get the picture.

 

weird...take a failing company and let THEM implement it right. The pressure monitor on our Mitsubishi Endeavor works great. They have a selection of sensors with a varying range of sensitivity. So if you like to run tires at the soft edge or the hard edge you won't always have the light on

 

All manufacturers will have to have tire pressure monitoring when the time comes, but they aren't required to display the actual pressure......which sucks. What some are doing is simply using the wheel speed sensors that are already there for ABS and monitoring them. For example, if one tire is spinning "X" amount faster than the other tires, then it must be lower than the rest by "X" amount and gives you a warning. Also if all 4 tires are spinning faster, then they all must be low, and you get a warning. The reason they can go by this is because when a tire is low on air, the overall diameter of the wheel/tire is reduced and therefore it spins faster than the rest, just like you had a smaller size tire on that wheel. So even if companies are required to have a tire pressure monitoring system, they all won't have a nice little digital readout of the pressures, this requires actual pressure sensors with individual codes inside each wheel that transmit the signal via radio frequency to the recievers at each wheel and costs a lot more.