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Checking the Tires

Using a tire gauge, which only costs a few bucks at any supermarket or automotive store, I walk around my vehicle and do a quick check to see what the tire pressure is on each tire.

When checking your tire pressure, you should try to keep a tire pressure gauge in your car at all times. It will come in handy whenever you are out. A great time to perform a tire check is whenever you stop to fuel up on gasoline. This is the most obvious and convenient time to do a pressure check because in the event hat your tires are low on air, most gas stations have an area where you can fill your tires up with air if you need to. This is usually the area by the vacuum, to the side of the main area where the gasoline pumps are.

In the mornings or before you first drive anywhere for the day, do a quick walk around to survey your vehicle. If there is something wrong with your tire or tires, it is best to try to catch it prior to getting in your car and driving away versus not knowing that something is wrong until it is too late (I.e. when you're already on the road and stuck in the middle of rush hour traffic.

It seems that most of us have some sort of woe-be-gotten story involving our tires. This is usually a story in which the predicament involving our tires could have been easily prevented had we only known that there was a problem sooner. For instance, when I worked for the police department, I had a twenty to thirty minute drive in the mornings. Each morning (or every so often), I would make it a point to check my tires on my Jeep. On one particular morning, I did not check my tires and simply got into my car and drove to work. While driving to work, I noticed that something didn't feel right. It almost felt like my car was dragging. I turned down the music so that I could pay attention to what was going on with my car. However, everything seemed normal to me. I had never gotten a flat tire with the Jeep before, but had had plenty of flat tires with cars before. I figured that if it was a flat tire, I would certainly know about it.

I kept driving, doing approximately 70 mph on the highway, and when I got to work, I went around to the back of my Jeep to retrieve my police gear from the trunk area. It was only after I shut the gate to the back of my Jeep and backed away that I saw that one of my rear tires was completely flat. I couldn't believe it. I was both shocked and horrified- shocked that I didn't know that I had a flat tire while I was driving and horrified at the fact that I only discovered this problem AFTER I had been pushing upwards of 70 mph on the highway.

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