TPMS Delete (3 Viewers)

[Heckraiser]

What liability? You're an anonymous nobody on the internet. Post it up!

 

[FJ73Texas]

What liability? You're an anonymous nobody on the internet. Post it up!

Google it, plenty of ways to find out that way also. I like being nobody and prefer to stay that way. lol

 

[bloc]

Yep...thats what most people revert to. The seatbelt argument.

Apples and oranges.

The automakers were making a few 'tippy' SUVs in the 80s and 90s as the craze was booming while new testing methods and anti-rollover tech was just hitting the scene. Uncharted territory. People were trying to drive these new SUVs at full highway speed and didn't expect or understand the new handling characteristics of their higher COG family vehicle. Also, tire manufacturers were constantly learning new tire tech and trying to meet the demands of these new heavier, faster, taller vehicles.

Sure, there were a few TPMS systems out in the 80s, but were a novelty, expensive, not required and helped people with the new fangled 'run flat tires' know when the tire was slowly losing air. But here comes Ford and Firestone. Firestone has a bad time trying to maximize ride comfort and durability on these new SUVs. The general dumb masses don't yet understand that their new Ranger-based Explorer isn't a Mustang when it comes to handling.

And the rest is history. Congress gets involved, and in common fashion, comes to a over reacting knee jerk ruling and starts mandating things in a law making 'Act' that they don't understand. However, as is usually the case for most clueless people, they are calmed because mr. goverment man has warmed them with the illusion of safety.

Explorers were rolling over because they were a top heavy leaf sprung truck carrying the overloaded family on vacation and the tire exploded. Not gradually losing air.....catastrophically failing at 75 mph. No TPMS system could fix that.

But yet here we are with a MANDATED to buy and put up with system that while yes, may help you notice a nail in your tire a day sooner, should not be required.

That's what they said about ABS brakes.

Govt is getting crazy -- Family can sue Jeep because it failed to install available braking devices, Arizona court says -- for an optional equipment item.

Family can sue Jeep because it failed to install available braking devices, Arizona court says

The court rejected arguments from lawyers for Jeep's parent company that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration’s decision not to require the devices pre-empted the state lawsuit. A child died in the crash.

www.pennlive.com

Being allowed to sue doesn't necessarily mean they will win.

Besides, this is chit-chat.