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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
We rented a car for a mad dash to Dallas and back in rush hour traffic. On the way to my house I noticed the ride was awful. The tire pressure system indicated all normal. It was a Fiat as I remember. It was just a cheap rental.
I whipped out my gauge and it just pegged the gauge. I let a lot of air out, and still bang, pegged out. It took forever to get to the proper pressure. Evidently the car rental place uses that pressure monitoring system to check tire pressure. I bet that tire had triple the max inflation. I was happy to turn it back in.
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More likely the Yahoo at the rental car place just put as much air in the tires as the compressor would produce...in an effort to not have to mess with the TPM light and he wanted it to last 6 months or more before he'd have to look at it again.