Why check temp on tires? Really necessary?
So I have read a few times now on this forum that people will check the temp of the tires with a laser infrared. I'm guessing this is to prevent blowouts due to rubbing brakes? Is this really ne...
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I hand check tire temps at stops when highway driving, to see if they are even. Also look for bulges. Been doing so since moving to the hot midwest 30 some years ago. It helped me catch a set of defective Coopers before they actually came apart.
Not just RV, anything I'm driving. A tire losing pressure will quickly get warmer than the others at highway speed, before it is noticable by shape. High pressure tires, you can also check them quickly by how the ring when you hammer on them. Temp or sound oddity, time to put the pressure gauge on all of them. Which is before each days drive on the RV, in any case (car and truck are new enough to have DOT mandated TPMS, which will catch something dangerously low).
Not just RV, anything I'm driving. A tire losing pressure will quickly get warmer than the others at highway speed, before it is noticable by shape. High pressure tires, you can also check them quickly by how the ring when you hammer on them. Temp or sound oddity, time to put the pressure gauge on all of them. Which is before each days drive on the RV, in any case (car and truck are new enough to have DOT mandated TPMS, which will catch something dangerously low).
