Your car's tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) can fail, but you can still drive. Learn why sensors break and what to do ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

A TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) sensor is a device that is installed in a vehicle's tires to monitor the air pressure and temperature of the tires. The primary function of the TPMS sensor is ...

Tire air pressures that keep changing can be normal, or a sign something is wrong. Here’s how to tell the difference and what to check.

Taking care of your tires can prevent unnecessary problems. Tire pressure monitors have been around for many years, mostly in higher priced vehicles. After the Firestone recall in the late 1990s, ...

General Motors is recalling more than 36,000 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain crossover SUVs to fix tire pressure monitors that don't work right. The company says the systems in the 2012 vehicles ...

You probably think the check engine light is the most confusing symbol on your dash, and you are not alone. Yet the warning that trips up drivers even more often is the tire pressure icon, the little ...

Oct. 17, 2002 – More than 88 deaths were attributed to problems with Firestone tires on vehicles made by Ford Motor Co. Whether the accidents involving the Ford Explorer were due to underinflated ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. When it last studied the danger posed by underinflated tires in passenger cars and light trucks, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...