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Your TPMS has an electronic embolism! Wednesday it was 15 below. Thursday was 22 below and dipped to 29 below during the night. Had the truck parked outside. Front tire pressure were in the 40's. Rears showed upper 50's. My drive to work is only a couple miles so tires don't get a chance to heat up. So, I just get to look at the lights and TPMS messages until I can take a longer drive. Ugh....what a PITA..:banghead: Ok...end of rant.

One nice thing, the remote start fires the truck right up in those low temps...no preheating necessary!:party018::thumbsup:

Temps warmed up to 12 as a high yesterday. Went to the mountains looking for elk and ended up helping to bust through 20 miles of snow drifts as I was the second guy up the road in the morning. 4 wheel high, 30 mph to keep momentum and filled up when we got back to town. Right at 9 mpg. Love the fully boxed frame...stays really straight and just keeps the truck from being thrown around. :thumbsup:
 

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That's damn cold! I sure don't miss it... Miss everything else but not that!
 

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It has been zero here in Iowa where I live for a low and teens for the highs. Not as cold as you but I still hate it. I wish I could talk my wife into moving south where it is warm all the time. I really like the seat and steering wheel warmers on this laramie package and the hemi sure warms up better than the cummins. Makes living with these colder temps easier to deal with.
 

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Your TPMS has an electronic embolism! Wednesday it was 15 below. Thursday was 22 below and dipped to 29 below during the night. Had the truck parked outside. Front tire pressure were in the 40's. Rears showed upper 50's. My drive to work is only a couple miles so tires don't get a chance to heat up. So, I just get to look at the lights and TPMS messages until I can take a longer drive. Ugh....what a PITA..:banghead: Ok...end of rant.

One nice thing, the remote start fires the truck right up in those low temps...no preheating necessary!:party018::thumbsup:

Temps warmed up to 12 as a high yesterday. Went to the mountains looking for elk and ended up helping to bust through 20 miles of snow drifts as I was the second guy up the road in the morning. 4 wheel high, 30 mph to keep momentum and filled up when we got back to town. Right at 9 mpg. Love the fully boxed frame...stays really straight and just keeps the truck from being thrown around. :thumbsup:

I have been driving around with the light on the dash for about a month, don't really even notice it anymore, so I would not worry about it too much. I also switch the EVIC setting to get rid of the warning there before I head out. I figure this is a small price to pay to not have to have max pressure in the tires all the time.
 

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It has been zero here in Iowa where I live for a low and teens for the highs. Not as cold as you but I still hate it. I wish I could talk my wife into moving south where it is warm all the time. I really like the seat and steering wheel warmers on this laramie package and the hemi sure warms up better than the cummins. Makes living with these colder temps easier to deal with.
AGREED! The steering wheel warmer is, simply put....AWESOME!:thumbsup: Always loved them on my snowmachine. I find myself using the seat warmers and heated steering wheel more and turning down the heater when not needed.

I have been driving around with the light on the dash for about a month, don't really even notice it anymore, so I would not worry about it too much. I also switch the EVIC setting to get rid of the warning there before I head out. I figure this is a small price to pay to not have to have max pressure in the tires all the time.
:agree2:Yeah, your right. Just a quick press of a button and the screen is gone. I still wish RAM would have programmed a low pressure threshold of 40 or 45. With a slow leak in a tire, you'd tend to believe the system more than how it is set up now. A catastrophic blowout isn't going to matter. Just my opinion. I'm just going to have to live with the light during the winter time. I'm airing down my rear tires to 60-65 for better winter traction or I'm going to have to load up 500lbs in the back. This 75-80 psi really tends to make the truck start axle hopping when there is a couple inches of loose snow trying to get packed under the tires when you're trying to get going in a foot of snow.
 
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