Anybody check their tyre pressure after delivery?
09-10-2003, 07:44 AM
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Anybody check their tyre pressure after delivery?
I guess it must be my trusting nature for my car dealer (Grand Prix Mazda, Aspley, Brisbane) to do the right thing, because I confess to not having checked my tyre pressures for a month after taking delivery and after my 1000km service. Before I drove off this morning, the tyres cold in the garage overnight, I checked the pressures: 42, 38, 38, 38, 39psi or 290, 262, 262, 269kPa(recommended is 32 psi - 220kPa all round). Even though the tyre gauge is only cheap, it has checked out in the past, but just to make sure I drove to the nearest service station and re-checked. Exactly the same results!
It suggests to me that pre-delivery is a crock, and they couldn't care less.
I have dropped the pressure back to 34psi -234kPa until I get some better advice on whether to take it back to the Mazda recommended pressure.
It suggests to me that pre-delivery is a crock, and they couldn't care less.
I have dropped the pressure back to 34psi -234kPa until I get some better advice on whether to take it back to the Mazda recommended pressure.
09-10-2003, 08:14 AM
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Just checked the tyre pressures in my car after reading this and they are all on or near 32psi. When I picked up the car last Wednesday the dealer told me they had 34psi in them.
I only asked the service guy if he had checked them because I once bought an imported car that I found had over 50psi in each tyre !! So it does pay to check - get those gauges out !
Dealers are getting large sums of money to do this kind of checking so let's hope they actually do more often than not.
jeffneil
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I only asked the service guy if he had checked them because I once bought an imported car that I found had over 50psi in each tyre !! So it does pay to check - get those gauges out !
Dealers are getting large sums of money to do this kind of checking so let's hope they actually do more often than not.
jeffneil
winning blue auto - and loving it !
) and mine were 38psi all around...
09-10-2003, 08:06 PM
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Mine were 45psi at delivery. dropped to around 35-36psi.
Apparently the best tyre guage is the PCL pen type tyre gauge. Beat all others when tested by Choice magazine(including a VDO one). it is cheap at $9.95 from K-Marts when I bought it a couple of years ago.
Donald
Apparently the best tyre guage is the PCL pen type tyre gauge. Beat all others when tested by Choice magazine(including a VDO one). it is cheap at $9.95 from K-Marts when I bought it a couple of years ago.
Donald
09-11-2003, 02:39 AM
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Mine were 34 all round when I picked mine up. I'm running them 38 all round. Just checked them today after 2 weeks since I pumped up to 38 and they are 37 all round.
Glad I checked the fuel level when I picked mine up ... it was $10 short.
Glad I checked the fuel level when I picked mine up ... it was $10 short.
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