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Keeping tires properly inflated is critical to vehicle safety and vital to ensuring optimal tire wear. Additional benefits from maintaining proper air pressure in tires are increased fuel mileage, more uptime and fewer costs associated with tire-related road service calls. With so many costs riding on proper tire inflation, this basic maintenance is easier to advocate than implement. There is a solution, however, tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS).
Some systems monitor the air pressure in tires and alert drivers to changes; others--automatic tire inflation systems (ATIS)--maintain air pressure automatically. Some devices attach to the wheel; a few are mounted on a patch on the tire inner liner, while others are mounted on either the exterior or the interior...
