Hi,
I have an '04 Liberty Limited Edition and the only complaint that I have are with those @#!%$# radio transmittors in the valve stems (Tire Pressure Monitoring Display) which are too sensitive to temperature change and produce annoying alarms.
Definitely not for cold climates!
I have a solution for that which involves some manual labor, a pair of pliers and a knife...
Does it also involve the engineer who came up with design? :)
-- Michael White "To protect people from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer
I have 18% oxygen in mine! But, then, I always was a nonconformist...
Dan
What pressure are you trying to run?
In the WJ the Lo/Hi warnings come on at 25 and 45 psi.
Are you checking your spare tire too?
You know, our Cherokee insists on 'winter air' in it's tires come cold weather for some strange reason.
Every winter, the 'summer air' or the old 'stale' last winter's air just lets itself out. We have to take it in to the tire shop and they have to let the air totally out, break down the tire and then clean it to be sure 'all' of it comes out and then fill it with new 'winter air'.
At least they are under warranty for flats....
Maybe his new one has the same type of tires and rims? ;-)
Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail >I've mentioned this before and to some it's ludicrous. I've got plain ol' air in my tires O.K.!!! :-)
A lot of tire shops are now recommending putting nitrogen in the tires instead of plain ol' air. Apparently the nitrogen has a bigger molecule which leaks less and doesn't change pressure as much from temperature as plain ol' air does.
I've seen a brochure from a tire shop recommending the above but they were charging 14 dollars for it ......LOL
Mike Roma> You know, our Cherokee insists on 'winter air' in it's tires come cold
Are you still buying that Metric Air from Canadian Tire?
You know that French stuff doesn't fit in American Tires quite right..
Yup, that metric air comes in decimals and just won't stay mixed with that fractional air we get in the U.S.
Yup, they have the warranty going so it goes back to them for the air change out.
I have pure homegrown air here now to top them up. I have a compressor now.
Mike
billy ray wrote:
I have 78% nitrogen in my tires.
I'm not sure that's legal.
K.
Me too - plain 'ol air.
Don't worry, I've considered the pliers and knife solution :)
Outatime wrote:
It's the spare that has the flakey sensor. It sometimes gives a tamper alarm, but usually a Lo-Pressure alarm. I have it inflated now to 235 kp which is about 32 psi to those who hold out on the metric system.
Kate wrote:
What pressure does it show when the alarm is going off?
They've got a pretty wide range of pressure before they trigger the alarm. Is it THAT big a deal to just keep your tires properly inflated?
He 'really' might have to go and have the tire broken down, cleaned and have 'winter' air put in it.
I wasn't kidding about ours needing that every winter as soon as it turns cold.
The Jeep aluminum rims are garbage in my opinion.
They will be fine all summer then come the first frost, one, or this year 3 of the damn things were flat.
Oops, jut went and checked our other Cherokee with those same freaking rims and you can add 4 more tires that need winter air...
7 flats with one cold snap!Funny enough, the steel rimmed 'silly spares' are both holding air just fine, so are my 1986 chrome Laredo CJ7 rims...
Mike
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