Tyre Gauge - which one

Hi Prickle...
Bob Jane sells a Digital one. They gave me one when I purchased my last set of tyres.

Steve. B...

A Really good one is the Longacre liquid filled dial with needle $150.00

You can buy them at Revolution race gear , i think they have stores in S.A as well AS Melb.

Colin

How much do you want to spend?

The ARB EZ Deflator is a good one, the DrAir equivalent is half the price.

FWIW I have a digital one which I got on special at Jaycar. It seems accurate enough and has an inbuilt light which is useful. Was only a few $$$.

I think it's very hard to find a super accurate gauge without spending a lot of $$$. It's more important to have consistent readings.

I got a good one from tyrepower years ago.

It is the Jamec-Pem Brand and has been very reliable.

$25 I paid

Have you looked at thread 73681? Discusses accuracy of gauges.

I have a digital tyre gauge I got it from a John Deer tractor agent it's about 12 years old, fits in the glove box . No bolky hoses just a small black plastic animal 40mm wide by about150mm long.

I got it when I use to race speedway the pits were always dark and it was hard to see a normal dail gauge this one beeps when it has taken the tyre pressure, so you can walk over to the light and read it or just stand up and read it.

I would recomend it.

Cheers Scoof .

As with above, if you want a really good one go the places where pressure means the most.

I would go to a motorcyle store, if the tyres aren't round or over inflated then it makes a big difference to a bike.

I still find my Michelin dial gauge accurate and it is 20 years old now, bought the best I could at the time for my motorcycle years.

The bushranger 3:1 is probably the best all round device at a resonable price ($30), and used by others on this site following reccomendation.

It is widely available from camping / 4wd stores.

Reasons for its long success are that it has linear dial gauge with a max of 60psi
which allows a good reading at down to below 10 psi , and allows repeatable results.

It uses a screw on fitting , not push on.

Its also a deflator.

For Higher PSI readings I carry an ARB digital item, and its good practise to carry
2 guages.

Note digital ones usually need batteries at the wrong time.

Note - Push on guages often end up damaged as a result of excessive push on force.

One source of many is

http://www.downundercamping.com.au/home.php?cat=312

I purchased a Bushranger digital from TJM, and it fell apart. The free replacement also fell apart.
I no longer have a Bushranger digital gauge, just a $25 Supercheap old fashioned dial that seems to work fine.
Cheers

Hi Russ

Email me your address and I will send you one for free.







Regards

Derek from ABR

Best one is the one that works when you want it to work.

Had a few digitals including a Michelin. Got rather frustrated with finicky nature of them. Made up my mind to go retro and get an analogue gauge. Got a VDO. It has been great. It just works great for me.

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From the photo you can see it has kilopascal reading around the outside and psi around the inside of the dial. It holds the reading until the reset button is depressed. It is just visible in the photo on the body not far from the 20 cent piece. You can feel the click of it having taken a reading. Very positive and consistent in operation.

It comes with a protective cover and from memory was somewhere between $30 and $40 earlier this year from New England Instrument Company Tamworth.

Highly recommended.

Thanks to everyone for your responses and to Derek for his offer.

RB

I bought a $24 Lumen about 5 years ago after reading a gauge testing article in a major motoring magazine. About 15 gauges ranging from dial to the pencil types were checked. One test consisted of dropping them onto concrete 10 times from a height of 1 metre.

Only two passed all tests. One was the Lumen and another was one with a name starting with S but I can not remember what it was. Both sold for about the same price.

I have checked it many times over the years against service station gauges that looked new and so far it has always read the same.