lazarus870
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I don't know whether to bring this up with the dealership or with Ford.
My buddy is driving my GT PP, first time I've ever ridden passenger. He tells me that my tire pressure warning light came on and is telling me I have 24 PSI. We're in the middle of nowhere with no shoulders to pull off and one gas station coming up for a few minutes.
Pull into the station, the one air pump costs money. Ok fine, whatever, but this woman is parked across it and she is spending several dollars vacuuming her car for literally 30 minutes, wiping it down, etc.
Somebody asks her to move but she refuses. So I say fuck it, pull out the air compressor in the trunk and screw it onto the tire, plug the end into the AC outlet. I turn it on and somehow it's not going up in PSI. (I don't know WTF I am doing wrong, maybe it's something blatantly obvious to people here but I've filled tires with tiny AC compressors a lot of times in my day and this one was screwed on tight for sure).
After a few seconds or so, my buddy puts his hand down and says he feels air coming out of the hose from the compressor!
So now the car TPMS reads 10 PSI and the tire is FLAT. After trying to fill it with air, I lose another 15 PSI. I have no choice but to wait for this woman to basically detail her stupid daycare babysitting business minivan thing. Pull up to the coin operated air compressor at the gas station when she's done detailing her vehicle at a busy gas station, fill the tire and it's been holding air ever since without losing any.
So either I'm an idiot and doing something very stupid with the air compressor that came with my GT or the damn thing is defective and could've been a lot worse if there wasn't a gas station nearby.
Poor guy beside me in the Explorer though at the gas station, his hood is steaming and coolant is pouring out his front grill! Bad heater core? Smelled sweet.
My buddy is driving my GT PP, first time I've ever ridden passenger. He tells me that my tire pressure warning light came on and is telling me I have 24 PSI. We're in the middle of nowhere with no shoulders to pull off and one gas station coming up for a few minutes.
Pull into the station, the one air pump costs money. Ok fine, whatever, but this woman is parked across it and she is spending several dollars vacuuming her car for literally 30 minutes, wiping it down, etc.
Somebody asks her to move but she refuses. So I say fuck it, pull out the air compressor in the trunk and screw it onto the tire, plug the end into the AC outlet. I turn it on and somehow it's not going up in PSI. (I don't know WTF I am doing wrong, maybe it's something blatantly obvious to people here but I've filled tires with tiny AC compressors a lot of times in my day and this one was screwed on tight for sure).
After a few seconds or so, my buddy puts his hand down and says he feels air coming out of the hose from the compressor!
So now the car TPMS reads 10 PSI and the tire is FLAT. After trying to fill it with air, I lose another 15 PSI. I have no choice but to wait for this woman to basically detail her stupid daycare babysitting business minivan thing. Pull up to the coin operated air compressor at the gas station when she's done detailing her vehicle at a busy gas station, fill the tire and it's been holding air ever since without losing any.
So either I'm an idiot and doing something very stupid with the air compressor that came with my GT or the damn thing is defective and could've been a lot worse if there wasn't a gas station nearby.
Poor guy beside me in the Explorer though at the gas station, his hood is steaming and coolant is pouring out his front grill! Bad heater core? Smelled sweet.
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