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burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

rmorrison1116 wrote:

I'd think the best way to turn the TPMS light off would be, add air to the tires.

There’s a reset button under my dash. Once I adjust air to the tires, I hold that button down until the dash light for tire pressure blinks three times. That registers the individual tire pressures as normal for each tire. If any of them loses 5 PSI air, the light goes on. And if the TPMS light can’t be reset, the battery in that wheel is dead. It’s not replaceable, so the whole TPMS transmitter gets replaced.

Dannj

rmorrison1116 wrote:

I'd think the best way to turn the TPMS light off would be, add air to the tires.

What page did you find that on?

Bill_de Loc: US

burkphoto wrote:

There’s a reset button under my dash. Once I adjust air to the tires, I hold that button down until the dash light for tire pressure blinks three times. That registers the individual tire pressures as normal for each tire. If any of them loses 5 PSI air, the light goes on. And if the TPMS light can’t be reset, the battery in that wheel is dead. It’s not replaceable, so the whole TPMS transmitter gets replaced.

My Jeep shows the tire pressure for each tire, except the spare. But just in case I forget to look on the dash I get an email once a month showing the tire pressures and a few other things. It indicates the date and time of the readings.

Who said Big Brother isn't watching?

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joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

latebloomer wrote:

I just purchased a new Olympus E-M1-II. As my Pen F it had no include a full manual with it. My Nikons do.

Why can't a manufacture produce an included manual with such an expensive product? I know there manuals are not perfect; yet, they are very useful and can't cost that much to produce. Are the makers just that greedy and selfish? I find it absurd.

Nothing can be more frustrating or boring than to thumb through a 500 page manual. I much prefer a quick reference guide or a well written PDF file with search capability.

Dannj

[quote=joer]Nothing can be more frustrating or boring than to thumb through a 500 page manual. I much prefer a quick reference guide or a well written PDF file with search capability.[/quote

Gotta disagree, here. I’ve learned some amazing things just thumbing thru manuals. Guess you’ve never picked up a random volume of an encyclopedia just for the hell of it😊

Beenthere

Bill_de wrote:

You don't need a computer, just a tablet. With a tablet you can have the manuals for all your devices, including your car, together in the space of one printed manual. You can set bookmarks for flipping back and forth.
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Not sure if you're aware, but a tablet, or mobile, phone IS a computer.., albeit a dubbed down version. They all have micro processors, and if you've noticed, the manufacturers continue to add and include more computer-like features. But I will agree with you about the convenient size, which is where laptops used to live. Everything old, is new again.

Bill P

But, even if you are using a computer there is an advantage. Instead of flipping back and forth between 2 pages you can view them side by side on the monitor.

I never have to worry that I grabbed the right manual for the camera or flash I pack for the day. I have them all on a small Kindle Fire.

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Certainly the tablet would be lighter, but what about the microscope you need to read all that in your photo?

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

burkphoto wrote:

There’s a reset button under my dash. Once I adjust air to the tires, I hold that button down until the dash light for tire pressure blinks three times. That registers the individual tire pressures as normal for each tire. If any of them loses 5 PSI air, the light goes on. And if the TPMS light can’t be reset, the battery in that wheel is dead. It’s not replaceable, so the whole TPMS transmitter gets replaced.

My response was meant to be more humorous than serious, but, it is a result of personal experience. My car tells you the pressure in each tire. If one or more is low, On Star sends me an email. Kind of a friendly reminder I need to put air in one or more tires. The TPMS will also automatically show me the pressure in all four tires if one is low, but all I need to do to clear the screen is press the virtual clear screen button supplied with the warning.

One of the reasons I traded my 2013 Honda Goldwing in on a 2018 Goldwing was the TPMS. No matter what they did, at two different Honda shops and one independent motorcycle repair shop, they couldn't get the TPMS to work correctly. They, the Honda dealership, even replaced the control module, or at least they said they did, after determining there was nothing wrong with the sensors. Another motorcycle dealership, not where I bought the 2013 Goldwing, replaced the sensors. After having replaced the four main elements that made up the TPMS, the control module, the two wheel units, and the air, the TPMS still didn't want to work correctly. After five years, I bought the 2013 new in 2015, a crated leftover, I decided the Goldwing was haunted or had a mind of its own, and since the bike was female, I named her GWyn, I decided it was best to let someone else enjoy her as much as I had. The Honda Dealership I bought the 2013 from gave me the best trade-in value of the 4 dealers I checked with so I bought my 3rd Goldwing from them.
My first Goldwing, a 1998 GL1500 was white so I named it GWEN. The obvious, GW, GoldWing. The subtle; Gwen is a Welsh Celtic word for White. A variant on the Welsh language theme and GWen; in certain cases GWYN may mean silver and my 2nd Goldwing, the haunted one, was silver.
If you can't have fun there's no sense in having.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Beenthere wrote:

Not sure if you're aware, but a tablet, or mobile, phone IS a computer.., albeit a dubbed down version. They all have micro processors, and if you've noticed, the manufacturers continue to add and include more computer-like features. But I will agree with you about the convenient size, which is where laptops used to live. Everything old, is new again.

My refrigerator has micro processors, does that make it a computer? But siriusly (woof) tablets are the best thing since lap top's. I use my tablet way more than either lap top, and forget about the desk top, I rarely turn it on anymore. Curious, what are computer-like features?

Beenthere

rmorrison1116 wrote:

My refrigerator has micro processors, does that make it a computer? I use my tablet way more than either lap top, and forget about the desk top, I rarely turn it on anymore. Curious, what are computer-like features?

The frig, itself, is not a computer, but it's run by one (micro processor). Your tablet, on the other hand, IS a simple mini computer. All I can say is that the tablet manufacturers have succeeded in their hype in convincing you that it is not. Doesn't really matter.., have fun.

I use my desktop all the time for professional reasons, and my tablet for portable fun things mostly. My cell phone is just that.., a freakin' phone.

fantom Loc: Colorado

latebloomer wrote:

I just purchased a new Olympus E-M1-II. As my Pen F it had no include a full manual with it. My Nikons do.

Why can't a manufacture produce an included manual with such an expensive product? I know there manuals are not perfect; yet, they are very useful and can't cost that much to produce. Are the makers just that greedy and selfish? I find it absurd.

If they provided a manual the cost of the camera would be higher and I'm sure you can download one from their site for free.

Bill P

fantom wrote:

If they provided a manual the cost of the camera would be higher and I'm sure you can download one from their site for free.

Free but not ink on paper. Welcome to the 21st century.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

fantom wrote:

If they provided a manual the cost of the camera would be higher and I'm sure you can download one from their site for free.

When you pay $3000 for a camera an extra $1 for a manual is chickenfeed.
It will be more about the extra time taken for the handling of a manual, perhaps making the box slightly larger to accommodate the manual etc. But taking all this into account I doubt it would cost them $5. However to an accountant 100,000 copies x $5 is significant change. What isn't taken into account is how much time it might save all (or some) of their customers. So they don't care because it isn't them paying.
Welcome to capitalism.