Is Tire Pressure Monitoring Important?

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07/30/25 12:15am
Tire pressure monitoring is important, and its functions are: to provide timely alerts for high tire pressure, low tire pressure, and high temperature, avoiding traffic accidents caused by tire failures and ensuring driving safety. There are three types of tire pressure monitoring: 1. Indirect tire pressure monitoring, which works by monitoring the number of rotations of the left and right wheels and requires driving more than 5 kilometers to display the rotation count; 2. Composite tire pressure monitoring, which can directly indicate which tire has a problem; 3. Direct tire pressure monitoring, which involves installing four tire pressure monitoring sensors inside the tires to automatically monitor tire pressure and temperature in real time, whether the vehicle is stationary or in motion.
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