Which tyre pressure guage?

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Boring question, and I know this comes up infrequently, but I could do with some current advice on which tyre pressure guage to buy...

After whinging about my front tyre feel it turns out I'd, embarassingly, under-inflated it by about 8PSI (despite checking it three times) so it's time to buy a new pressure guage, and very soon a new tyre as I've taken about 2,000 miles off the life of this one.

Any suggestions for something reliable would be appreciated. I've googled it, but there's a lot of rubbish out there and I'm after something that will last.

Cheers,
PP

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Thanks chaps, Venhill I think it is.

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stew-STR160 said:

Last year Ride magazine done a test on a whole bunch of them. All the gauges were tested to strict standards using a freshly calibrated tester.

I think the Halfords cheapo digital was close to top. Along with an Oxford digital one.
https://www.ride.co.uk/ride-reader-offers/ride-pro...

The test was actually performed at my work by a colleague and I have my personal gauge tested. Found it to read about 1psi high between 15 and 40psi.

I guess my only concern is how long it's accurate for. Mine was spot on for about three years or so (I think!). I'm not sure about other brands but I've certainly had a number of Halfords cheap guages fail over time, so would rather try someone else, and Venhill comes well recommended.

Shame there's not a cost effective way to buy one and have it calibrated regularly like we do with work stuff.

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Whilst I am happy to have a cheap digital gauge in my toolkit, for home DIY purposes I'd rather have an analogue one. I don't want the faff of batteries, and I find the mechanical ones easier to read, quicker to use as you can usually bleed at a touch as well, and whilst my current one failed, they seem to last longer.

To be honest though, accuracy within a few PSI is probably fine. Tyre temperatures vary so much on the roads it's not something I want to get anally retentive about.