You're right. I am going to irrational extremes in my complaint over a dash warning light that is functioning as designed. My issue isn't with the light or the single ding that accompanies it when I start the truck. It's not the poor ride if I decide to follow the recommendation.
The only reason I decided to bother is that there are many dozens of complaints all over the internet. There have been reports submitted to safercar.gov from quite a lot people about poor ice traction, poor wet road traction, and even poor dry road cornering, dating back to 2014. These complaints represents only a small number of the owners who are even aware of the issue. I would suppose that those who know enough about the issue are a minority of truck owners, the rest of whom are bouncing about the highways on over inflated tires. Now, sometimes I'm sharing the road with them in a 7,000 pound truck that's fairly capable of surviving an unfortunately timed slip of the tire and most ensuing accidents. Some of the time I'm tooling around in a 2,000 pound Mazda Miata that's 25 years old and utterly ill equipped against an assault from 7,000 pounds of RAM driven by an uniformed truck owner who knows no better.
Again, you're right, I'm over reacting. But at least now I'm 100% certain that there is at least some small record in place if ever a lawsuit is required to win justice in a wrongful death suit when one of the monsters rolls into a smart car in an easily avoidable accident. Improper tire inflation is is a leading cause of traffic accidents resulting in untold waste of both lives and wealth... simply and easily avoidable but for the recommendations of a corporation that really doesn't seem to give a ****.
The light doesn't bother me. The tire wear doesn't bother me. The facts of the whole bloody affair is what bothers me, and regarding the facts I'm not sure that I really am over reacting. But at least I did indeed react, and there is a record of it.
