Originally Posted by Kira
Hello, GOOD ADVICE except
1) People are frequently sooooooo lazy
2) "I can't be baaaaaathuurd"
3) "I never did that before!"
4) "I'm a brain surgeon, my tires don't loose air."
A British survey from decades ago, indicated that a billion gallons of fuel per year are wasted in the UK because of low inflated tires. Got to be a lot more wasted fuel due to low tires in america..... the king of waste. I was able to tell a driver of a large tractor, temporarily on a farm road, that one of his tires was really low. That brings up another problem with low tires. Some people are so negligent(or a tire suddenly increased its leak rate), that their tires have de-rimmed. 25% of auto accidents site low pressure in tires as a causative factor. The car lurching down the road, might NOT be a drunk driver, but a driver with a low tire.
OK, OK! I'm going to check my tires right now.............. OK, my tires are up(I checked them a week ago). But, once my son-in-law saw one of my tires very low, when I would have just taken off without checking tires. Pumped the tire up & took it to my mechanic. Turned out a nail had started a not-so-slow leak. The safest method should include a pre-drive tire check, like a pilot pre-flight checklist.