Customer Reviews

Accutire MS-4650 Key Chain Digital Tire Gauge with Flashlight

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1 star:		(5)

 

 

It does the job right and has a nice blue backlight. I have compared it with analog (mechanical) tire pressure gauge and the measurements are the same.
It looks nice (when new), feels nice (when new), and is compact enough to sit on the car key chain (just a little bigger than a car remote). LED light is weak but enough to see the valve in the dark.

UPDATED May 17, 2007: It got scratched easily, the battery was replaced once while it was barely used. It does not look nice anymore and is not carried everyday. It's more a gadget than a tool but still does the work when needed.

Final rate: 2 stars.

It's too small to try and hold for car tires. Takes too long to register. You have to first push the ready button to "wake it up". The gauge is fickle about how you press it against the tire nozzle. Hard to read in bright sunlight. I plan on abandoning this thing at the air station at the gas station. It's better than guessing, but I won't keep it.

The Accutire MS-4021 would be the way to go. I bought this one a few years ago for another car and it works fast, automatically lights & has no buttons. Another good gauge is something like the Milton Dial Type Tire Gauge.

so i received this as a christmas present and i am experiencing the same problems as the other person about how the display doesnt read anything, the flashlight comes on inconsistently. i am going to have to send it back!

This is a throwaway piece of trash. It did not work well when it worked at all. It quit working altogether within a few months. Look elsewhere.

When I recived this item the batteries were death, so I can not even used 1 time, I have to buy batteries.
Why they send a tire gauge without batteries??

The product is really good, I have two, the other one, isn't have a flashlight, but both work nice.

It is very light in weight.There is a LED light with seperate switch to point and find Key-holes which is very handy.

The Digital pressure guage most of the times shows error.You have to hold this in a specific position for it to read and give results.And finding this correct angle each time is a big task.

Reading on the guage is not very exact but some where nearby.Instead of 29, it shows 27 or 27.5

I would suggest you go in for more quality(expensive models) so that you don't end up buying similar items over and over educating yourself which brand/model really serves the purpose and is durable.

THIS IS AN AVERAGE PRODUCT !

First unit arrived broken, nothing at all on the LCD display and only inconsistent flashlight operation.

Amazon immediately shipped another, but it too is faulty, and in very similar way.

Not sure what's up - I had a simpler accutire gauge before that worked great, and it only failed after getting wet and corroding.

Accutire has a good reputation - is there just a bad batch at Amazon right now?

accurate and easy to use; however, it should turn on automatically and reset between tires. you have to push the button each time and wait for it to zero

The tire gauge that I received didn't work. It looked good but didn't work. I returned it to the company (UPS w/paid shipping to return a working gauge to me) almost 3 weeks ago but haven't heard anything from them. Not good! Certainly not happy! Amazon - do you check out your vendors?
Matthew