Product Review - Accutire Digital Tyre Gauge

[blkmav]

I just received my new tyre gauge. I dropped my old VDO and broke it. This gauge is excellent. Dial gauges really suck, this thing has +/- 0.5 PSI tolerance. Only problem is that there is no zero button and you have to wait 10 seconds for it to reset.

http://www.msiusa.com/consumers/tire_gauge_detail.asp?ID=132

[bazzle]

My VDO is working real well. I happen to like Dial gauges.
Your digital one sucks.. fancy having to wait 10 seconds to read again... blimey

Bazzle

[Utemad]

problem is that there is no zero button and you have to wait 10 seconds for it to reset.

yeah sounds great

[fightara]

Have you checked its pressure against a guage that you trust yet? A mate has a digital one (granted it's a cheapie) and it is out ~10% on my VDO dial.

[muppet_man67]

whats the point in a bling pressure gauge? How accurate do you need to know the pressure of your tires?

[blkmav]

Have you checked its pressure against a guage that you trust yet? A mate has a digital one (granted it's a cheapie) and it is out ~10% on my VDO dial.

That's this weekends job

[fightara]

whats the point in a bling pressure gauge? How accurate do you need to know the pressure of your tires?

I guess it's not so much accuracy (though it is still pretty important) but consistency, which is why I'm happier with a dial guage than a digi one.

Then again, I may just be being a grumpy old stick-in-the-mud.

[Utemad]

I have had both digital and analogue but I prefer my VDO analogue gauge.

Just my opinion though as there was nothing wrong with the digital one. Although it reset when I put it on the tye stem not after 10 seconds.

[murcod]

I've got an earlier model Accutire digital and found it really good and easy to use. Mine's got a zero reset button and only takes around 3 secs to take a measurement- you can then immediately take another reading. I've found it accurate compared to other gauges too.

The new Michelin digital gauge I just bought is another story.... It's a PITA to use.

[Shorty40]

Have you checked its pressure against a guage that you trust yet? A mate has a digital one (granted it's a cheapie) and it is out ~10% on my VDO dial.

I would take your VDO back if it is that far out

The only thing I don't like about dial gauges is that they usually read to about 60psi. Which doesn't make them terribly easy to read when you are trying to get 5 or 6 psi

I have a semi-decent Kinchrome digi gauge and it has done the job for me. It reads in 0.5psi increments (also reads in bar). I am not sure if it is 100% accurate, but as long as it is consistent I will be happy. All I know is, when it reads 6psi my tyres are good for wheeling. Whether they are really 3psi or 9psi is irrelevant.

[fightara]

Have you checked its pressure against a guage that you trust yet? A mate has a digital one (granted it's a cheapie) and it is out ~10% on my VDO dial.

I would take your VDO back if it is that far out

The only thing I don't like about dial gauges is that they usually read to about 60psi. Which doesn't make them terribly easy to read when you are trying to get 5 or 6 psi

I have a semi-decent Kinchrome digi gauge and it has done the job for me. It reads in 0.5psi increments (also reads in bar). I am not sure if it is 100% accurate, but as long as it is consistent I will be happy. All I know is, when it reads 6psi my tyres are good for wheeling. Whether they are really 3psi or 9psi is irrelevant.

Agreed. By the way, we've got a dial gauge we use for our quadrunner which only reads up to 20psi, so they do exist. Buggered if I know where it came from though

[Ben]

My POS VDO guage has never been right, its out by a mile. I use an el cheapo pencil guage and its been spot on every time.

[Utemad]

My POS VDO guage has never been right, its out by a mile. I use an el cheapo pencil guage and its been spot on every time.

I read somewhere that you can adjust a VDO gauge yourself. Can't remember how exactly.

How do you know it is spot on 'every time'?

I wonder where you can have tyre gauges calibrated as who is to say what gauge is actually right? I have noticed servo gauges to be wildly inaccurate at places. I always check with my own gauge so at least I know I am reasonanly consistent in pressures.

[twinnie]

mate $20 at super cheap, 0.5 acuracy and flexi hose. it's cheap and it works nuff said

Matt

[stumped]

i've got the old pencil guage, isn't any good below 10psi tho... so i gotta get around to finding something better

[berazafi]

I happen to work in a lab, which has the facilities to calibrate(check) a pressure guage, We have a low pressure calibrator that will read down to 3 decimal places in psi, so if anyone wants a check done on there guage pm me and i may be able to help you out (cheaply)

Dave