Tire pressure
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4wd Low
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Tire pressure
Why would the tire pressure be listed only in kilopascals and not include psi? Personally, I never studied kilopascals in that bull**** they called college algebra! Took several minutes to convert as my phone kept telling me my tire pressure should be 200 psi!
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From: Topsail Beach
I have no earthly idea. If you don't mind being very slightly off, just divide the kilopascals by 7 to get psi. If you're a little pickier, divide the kilopascals by 6.9. The difference is a fraction of a psi.
If you have kilopascals given, divide. If you have psi given, multiply.
To give you examples, 30 psi is actually 206.842719 kpa. If you use 6.9 as the conversion factor, 30 psi=207 kpa. If you use 7, 30 psi=210 kpa. Not enough to make any practical difference. I'd just use 7 and be done with it.
Make sense?
If you have kilopascals given, divide. If you have psi given, multiply.
To give you examples, 30 psi is actually 206.842719 kpa. If you use 6.9 as the conversion factor, 30 psi=207 kpa. If you use 7, 30 psi=210 kpa. Not enough to make any practical difference. I'd just use 7 and be done with it.
Make sense?
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From: Virginia
Your proper tire pressure is listed on the frame of the driver's door or B-pilar & in your manual.
The information on the sidewall of the tire is a reference for pressure @ max load.
In every instance (unless you have completely the wrong tires installed), you will exceed the truck's capacity before you get close to the max load of the tire.
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4wd Low
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Both the manual and the B pillar. I get that the tires, if stock, might be of European make but, they usually have psi or kilograms. Which is how my gauge, an old fashion sliding type is marked. Again, I have no idea what a kilopascal actually is.
Fleet Mechanic
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From: Virginia
If that is whats listed in both places, do you know where your truck came from?
Also, do they have them listed as tyres?
I wonder if you got a truck that was intended to be sold outside the US but never left for whatever reason.
Also, do they have them listed as tyres?
I wonder if you got a truck that was intended to be sold outside the US but never left for whatever reason.
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From: Calgary Canada
A good unit conversion trick is to put it into google. You can write "200 kpa in psi" in the search box and it'll handle it for you. Saves having to remember any conversion factors.
Works with celcius, kilograms, all sorts of stuff.
Works with celcius, kilograms, all sorts of stuff.
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I have no idea, as I bought it used. I just thought it was odd!
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The alert pops up under messages in the app {top right corner in app} Both trucks show good tire pressure in app and there is nothing showing in alerts for each truck.
Neither truck shows anything on dash and tire pressures are good on both trucks.
Only thing is the alert that pops up under messages in app
Neither truck shows anything on dash and tire pressures are good on both trucks.
Only thing is the alert that pops up under messages in app
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