Thread: Do you use PSI or KPA for tyre pressures

I use psi for tyres, kpa for oxygen cylinders and bar for BA cylinders, go figure.

I use psi. Everything else I use metric. Not bad for an American, huh....

Psi because it is the usual on the servo pump , but I plead guilty to mixing systems, ex using mph for x kilometres to get to a destination.

Note quite psi, but in about 1985 we were heading north out of Mckinlay QLD for Burketown (more recently famous for Walkabout Creek pub) and the local cop was giving us directions (around a flooded stretch of track) in kilometers, miles and hours....as well as left, right and cardinal points of the compass.

We eventual made it to the Albert hotel and a few cold ones in Burketown.

Originally Posted by travelrover

Note quite psi, but in about 1985 we were heading north out of Mckinlay QLD for Burketown (more recently famous for Walkabout Creek pub) and the local cop was giving us directions (around a flooded stretch of track) in kilometers, miles and hours....as well as left, right and cardinal points of the compass.

We eventual made it to the Albert hotel and a few cold ones in Burketown.

I grew up with directions using compass bearings. For instance "take the Muttaburra road to the Wokingham Creek and turn north." "Turn west at Evesham school". This drove my missus mad when we were first married and living in a Brisbane inner suburb. "Turn west off Stanley St. at Mater Hill". These were perfectly plain to me.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

I grew up with directions using compass bearings. For instance "take the Muttaburra road to the Wokingham Creek and turn north." "Turn west at Evesham school". This drove my missus mad when we were first married and living in a Brisbane inner suburb. "Turn west off Stanley St. at Mater Hill". These were perfectly plain to me.

Makes perfect sense to me :-)

Like everybody else I use PSI for tyres.

Recently used one of those automated air stations. Dial in your pressure, hook up and stand back and wait till it beeps.

So I dial in 38, hook up and bide my time till I hear it beep and look down to see a flat tyre. Thinking WTF the thing must be broken, then the penny dropped. Last bloke that used it left it set on kPa.

Originally Posted by travelrover

Makes perfect sense to me :-)

Same here. That's the way I grew up too.