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Accutire MS-5510B Racing Tire Gauge | 
| Brand: Accutire
Category: Automotive Parts And Accessories
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $38.41
You Save: $21.58 (36%)
New (4) from $34.95
Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 73
Color: Black
Media: Misc.
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 18 x 3 x 1
MPN: MS5510B
Model: MS-5510B
UPC: 015507105080
EAN: 0015507105080
ASIN: B000BNS7Y2
Release Date: October 4, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| | The most accurate tire gauge available | | | Reads tire pressures from 0-60PSI in 01 increments | | | The quick disconnect insures a positive attachment | | | Easy to read blue back-lit display | | | Bleed valve to drop tire pressure to desired pressure |
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Product Description
Accutire Racing Gauge for peak precision. SAVE BIG! How many pounds of pressure? Here's the most accurate Air Gauge around for any tire with low pressure performance. 0-60 psi readouts in 1-lb. units; Extra large, easy-to-see blue backlit LCD; Bleed valve for precise accuracy; Quick disconnect; Shockproof rubberized housing; Installed lithium batteries (included); Screen: 1 1/2", Tube: 12 1/2", weighs 13 ozs.; Zipper storage pouch included; 5-year limited mfr. warranty. Act Now! Accutire Racing Gauge
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| Customer Reviews: Read 33 more reviews...
 Nice Gauge but misunderstood February 14, 2007
F. Copeland (Flower Mound, TX USA)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
This gauge works well and is easy to read. It seats well and does mostly what it should.
There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding from what I have read in other reviews. Let's clear a few things up.
First of all, you do NOT have to wait ten seconds between readings. You DO have to hit the recall button on the bottom between readings.
Secondly, you DO NOT have to send the unit back to replace the batteries. The instructions VERY clearly state the model number of user replaceable batteries (if you were to read the instructions).
The hose was flexible for me in 30 degree weather contrary to what I have read elsewhere. Maybe it gets stiff in really cold weather but then I use mine in the garage.
Very Nice Gauge
Perfect! May 20, 2008
Andrew Skow (CA USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After reading the other reviews here on Amazon I was a little apprehensive. It did appear that the more negative reviews were the older ones. The company that makes the gauge itself has also switched hands so I took a chance.
The gauge is fast and accurate. You have both a digital readout and a bar readout around the circumference that is reminiscent of an analog gauge. The digital readout gives you a reading to a tenth of a pound and is MUCH larger and easier to read than the bar around the outside edge. The readout changes on the fly even while bleeding air. The hose is very soft and flexible. The connection on the end is awesome. The seal is great. Not ONCE have I bleed air unintentionally while trying to make a seal. The clip is solid. You can clip it on to the stem and let go and it holds on tight. The blue backlighting is bright and even.
I have no idea why you would want to clip it on and monitor the pressure for more than a second but you can if you like. The hose also remains pressurized after you disconnect it from the tire. This permits you to stare at the reading for up to one full minute. You can tap the bleed valve to reset the gauge or just plug it into the next tire and the pressure equalizes with the tire to give you the new reading. You do not have to hit a reset button (The reset button picture in the product image is now just the ON button. There is no reset button). The only time you have to press the bleed valve to get a reading is if you leave pressure in the hose and let the device go into standby while still pressurized. When you turn it on with pressure in the hose the display reads "BL" prompting you to press the bleed valve before taking a reading.
The bleed valve button is easily usable while holding the gauge in the left hand. It does not bleed air terribly fast but you are apparently considering the purchase of a tire pressure gauge with a decimal point; you are obviously are O-C-D enough to want to do it right. Of course the readout is not accurate while it is bleeding. Is an analog gauge? No. You have to let the bleed valve close to get an accurate reading.
The flexible hose is a blessing and a nuisance. It's great because it allows you hold the gauge comfortably and easily see the readout when the tire stem is in an awkward position. On the downside it means you have to use two hands to take a reading. My old gauge was a little one piece analog number that allowed me to press it to the tire stem while holding the compressor hose in the other. On the whole the benefit outweighs the disadvantage for me.
The gauge is larger than I expected. Including the rubber grip/padding around the outside it is about 2 and 5/8 inches across and 1 and 3/8 inches deep. I'm a six foot tall guy and it fits very comfortably in my hand. It may be too large to hold solidly if you have small hands. The hose is 12 inches long which sounds unnecessary but it's actually just right.
Lastly... It's an LCD display. This means that it's polarized. It is viewable from all normal angles. It is not visible when viewing from a steep angle above or from very steep angles on the sides or from below. You can't see it if you're wearing polarized sunglasses. It's far from a problem. You will not have trouble reading the display under any normal circumstances.
Final thoughts: It's a quality product. Buy it.
Great tire gauge !!! January 21, 2008
cj (Outside Philly, PA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
To be honest I had second thoughts of getting this gauge because of a lot of negative reviews, glad I discounted them, either because some seem not to know how to operate the gauge or some earlier units had some battery troubles, maybe the fault lays of listing the "oldest reviews" before the newest.
I will admit I am somewhat anal about pressure in my tires maybe because being a motorcycle rider for the last 30 years or because I just brought new tires for my car for $120 a piece filled with free nitrogen, I wanted to see if the nitrogen pressure did hold until the next tire rotation, (8,000 miles) see if it drops any less than plain air, it holds way better than regular air, less than 1/2 lb.
This gauge is really made well, works flawlessly, so easy to read with that blue digital screen, seems accurate I mean reading in tenths of a pound !
One of the best things about it ? the only tire pressure gauge I ever owned that doesn't lose air from the tire as you set the valve on the stem of the tire, this is a first for me, all gauges leak a bit when setting on valve, not this one, I just hold it on a read the gauge, one might hear the tiniest of a hiss when releasing the valve and hose off the tire valve, truly amazing, I love this gauge I would have paid $50 for it !
The only gauge one needs, remember up to 60 lbs, psi, if one has to measure tire pressure of 61 or higher forget this gauge it's made to read up to 60 lbs, anything more which I tried, the screen doesn't even light up over 60 lbs. (they should make a different model to read above 60 lbs, for large work vans and large suv's) check your air pressure "plate" mounted in all cars, trucks, driver side door frame, this is what you need to put in the tires on your model car, if you have the same type tires, never use the MAX air pressure, stamped on the tire side wall your checking.
Remember this gauge has a timer on it, if one takes too long going from the front to the rear of the car, unscrewing the tire valves, bleeding out the air from the last tire you checed, it will "time-out" the unit will turn off, you must turn on the gauge, button at top of gauge, at this point make sure your reading 0.0, if your not press on the "bleeder valve" to make sure all the air is out ! if you hold or push it too long it switches from psi to metric, easy to flip back, just hold it a little longer, one other tip, again make sure you "bleed - out" all the air of the tire you just got a reading on, before you test the next tire, tire gauge must read "0.0" lbs to check pressure, pretty simple enough !
I ordered this in early Nov, sticker on back of unit stated 09/2007, nice and freshly made.
Forget the "bad old reviews", this is a great gauge !!!!! or I hope your model is ?? : - )))
A first-rate gauge January 7, 2007
M. Barto (Santa Monica, CA USA)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
May 12 update: I have had some occurrences of the fitting not sealing completely when attached to the valve stem, but removing the gauge, turning it about a quarter turn, and reconnecting it to the valve stem allowed the fitting to make a good seal, and I could still read the gauge easily (the hose is flexible enough to allow the gauge face to be turned so it can be read).
The company that manufactures and services the gauge has changed from the one mentioned in my original post (my 2nd gauge has the new company, Measurement Specialties, Inc.), but it seems to be a company at least comparable to the first one, specializing in pressure sensors, and they have contact info. printed with the gauge instructions.
After some months of use, I still feel this is the best gauge for the money and the easiest to use. Also, this gauge is now offered by Tire Rack and Proper Auto Care (both for more $ than it sells for here), which are two well-respected sites re high-quality automotive products.
Jan. 21 update: I got the low-battery indication while using the gauge, and it turns out that the LR1130 batteries are alkaline, not lithium as both the product packaging and instructions say they are. The batteries are indeed very easily replaced, and I'm replacing them with the silver oxide equivalent (SR1130W), as the original batteries apparently weren't the freshest (although they were Hitachi-Maxell). I continue to like this gauge very much.
I think this is a great product at a great price (currently $35 total), and I just bought a 2nd one to lend so others can see for themselves (don't want to be without mine in case it doesn't come back).
Very simple to connect and take a reading, and when bleeding air the numbers drop with the drop in air pressure, so I can reach the exact pressure I want quickly. The batteries are user replaceable, but they are lithium (LR1130) and are expected to last more than several years (the packaging suggests they will last the life of the gauge, as "permanent power"). The gauge can be zeroed (recalibrated) simply by turning it on without any air pressure in the hose, confirming that the display reads "0.0," and waiting until the display goes off (20 sec. when no pressure is present and 60 sec. when there is pressure present).
While the gauge display reads to a tenth of a pound, the actual stated accuracy in the instructions is plus or minus 1 percent plus 0.5 PSI, which suggests that the real accuracy is within about 0.2 to 0.8 pound, which is still better than any other gauge I've seen or used.
The instructions explain things well enough (they read as though they were translated into English, but still completely understandable), and the listed Web site for the actual manufacturer, Measurement Ltd., Inc. (in New Jersey), provides contact info. for user inquiries.
I like using this gauge (it's quick and easy), and that makes maintaining my tire pressure at the proper level simple to do consistently (along with a good portable air compressor, like the TyphoonMax TX-500, which I also really like).
New Tires July 30, 2007
Roger P. Baker
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just purchased new tires from a local tire store. When I check the air pressure each tire,they where all different. Two tires where off more than 2 lbs. With my new Accutire Tire Gauge I could add the right pressure for each tire right now the a 1/10th. I works GREAT.
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