Are All Digital Thermometers Created Equal?
Looking for the best digital thermometer for the money...will be using on our Ford car and Dodge truck. Appreciate all comments!
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mikeleblanc413 wrote:
THANKS to everyone who took the time to respond! I'm looking for a digital tire thermometer to read tire pressure on our 2018 Ford.
Are you looking for a thermometer or a pressure gauge? A thermometer of course can't measure pressure, just temperature--and while you can reasonably conclude that a tire may be low if it's excessively hot after driving, it's not reading the pressure in any way.
Anyhow, for this, IMHO pretty much any laser aimed non-contact thermometer will work fine. The Harbor Freight model is readily available and pretty inexpensive and mine, at least, seems to be pretty accurate (certainly close enough for checking tire temperatures).
For measuring pressure, pretty much any digital tire gauge will be quite accurate, likely more so (and more liable to stay accurate) than nearly any mechanical gauge that doesn't cost a king's ransom. I'd go by what seems convenient to use.
