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One of the frustrating situations while driving on the road is having a flat tire. It could be avoided if there is a routine car maintenance task to check tire pressures and inflate them as necessary.

The tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) is every car owner's best friend. How the TPMS works is simple: every tire comes with a sensor that measures its air pressure. Once the volume becomes lower ...

Since September 2007, federal law has required that every new domestic passenger vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 10,000 pounds be factory-equipped with a tire-pressure-monitoring ...

Tire-pressure warning lights are typically located in the gauge cluster of an automobile's dashboard. Warning lights are usually yellow or amber and resemble a cross section of a tire with an ...

There’s a horseshoe-shaped warning light on your car's dashboard with an exclamation point in the middle. This is your tire pressure light, also known as the TPMS light. TPMS is short for Tire ...

CARS.COM — Tire pressure monitoring systems, or TPMS, have been required on all vehicles since the 2008 model year and can be found on many earlier cars, as well. They detect when the air pressure in ...

Recently, the low tire-pressure warning indicator on the console of my car—under two years old and with less than 15,000 miles—came on (Figure 1). It’s an indicator for a specific problem, so it is ...

I rendezvoused with a friend this past weekend at a farm that currently has a barn under construction. On the way home, both of our vehicles developed tire leaks, resulting in our low-tire-pressure ...

As product manager for tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) at Bendix, Jon Intagliata intimately knows how even a small difference in tire inflation pressures can reduce fuel economy and decrease ...

Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) have been standard equipment by federal law in all new cars for about six years now. Despite their very real safety benefits, the tire-pressure systems can be a ...