Milton S-921 Pencil Tire Pressure Gauge, Passenger Car, With Built-in Deflator Valve, Durable Plated Brass, Pressure Measured In PSI & kPa

I've had a Milton Tire pressure gauge in the glove box of my car pretty much since I started driving. It has been accurate, reliable, quick to read, and easily makes a good air seal with the valve stem. After decades of use, and banging around in the glove box and the heat of the car it finally started working unreliably. I was very glad to find that same, made in USA model was available, and at a price competitive with cheap Chinese made junk.I also just bought an AstroAI digital gauge with a tire inflator for my air compressor that is claimed to be very accurate. That gauge and this Milton read about the same, to the level of accuracy that can be read with this gauge they read the same, confirming the accuracy.If this gauge lasts anywhere near as long as the first one I had it will outlive me.I have an older digital tire gauge in the glove box of another vehicle that has lasted for years. That gauge is very accurate, but it requires several seconds to get a reading, and doesn't seal to the valve stem particularly well making it a bit of a pain to get an accurate reading. This Milton is much faster to read.Just buy this tire gauge!

Quality, accurate, easy to use, solid performer and reliable. Skip the plastic ones that do not last and break too easily.

Well made, high quality, very accurate and repeatable. Just what I was looking for.

Old reliable. Great product

This is a well-built tire gauge with an all-metal housing. It is made in the USA. It is easy to use and accurate. As long as you don't intentionally abuse it, it should last for years. It's about the size of a pen so it is easily stored and if you drop it, just pick it up because it will still work. You should regularly check your tires and not assume the sensor in your car works perfectly or you eye-balling your tires is an accurate gauge.To be fair, you could easily get two for the same price or less (and with free plastic valve stem caps!) but they would be made of cheap, scratched, chrome-looking plastic made in China. They probably won't be accurate and they will fall apart after a few uses. If you drop it, forget it because it just snapped in two or parts flew everywhere. So, in the end you will end up paying more because you probably broke the back-up gauge already. Save yourself the drama and just get this first.

I’ve used Milton pneumatic tools all my life. I sold them for 15 years at the auto supply store I worked at. This Milton air pressure tire gauge is easy to use. It’s very quick and holds pressure well. Fits in your shirt pocket, glove box or console. Pressures are 5 to 50lb. Perfect for cars, trucks, lawn mowers, tractors. If it ever fails Milton also has the prongs and parts to repair it. You do’nt have to believe me, ask any mechanic what the best air products.

-- Im old enough to remember when finding a (reliable) (accurate) (U.S. made) tire guage in auto parts stores was the norm -- not anymore. -- I live in the capital of Illinois and not one out of four auto parts store chains or any department store anywhere stocked even one example of a US made quality tire guage of any kind. The stores are full of nothing but cheap plastic inaccurate Chinese made pretenders -- and its a Shame, tires and fuel cost a lot of money and underinflated tires affect both adversely. My most recent set of tires cost $700, and the last thing I want is an inaccurate tire guage to ruin them with. What concerns me is these Milton gauges cost little more than the junk ones, so why do auto parts stores refuse to stock them-??!! Milton is one of the old school American quality names from way back when I was wrenching on cars for a living and I was so glad to see "Made In USA" stamped on the head of these gauges and on the package -- and better yet the accuracy is still there -- Ive bought four of the 5-50 pound guages and one of the 10 to 70 pound guages and all have been well within a pound or two of each other -- by the way the acceptable industry accuracy standard for non- professional gauges is within two to three pounds, and all of mine have met that standard within two pounds or less, some were identical - keep in mind these are still pencil gauges, if you require more accuracy (say at the track) you have to go to more expensive alternatives as anyone in that group knows - but even a few of those (imports) fall short on accuracy so be careful. For everyday glovebox type spaces these are handy and provide decent accuracy. I don't care for digitals as the batteries go dead and accuracy slowly falls off as the batteries die. Digitals are also temperature sensitive. I had three, my first one ($13.00) was not accurate under any conditions and on my last two $15.00 digitals the LCD display would not work correctly in the winter. A good analog guage will work accurately in any weather and does not depend on batteries to function - a good tire guage does not require a rocket science design to do the job correctly, it needs good build quality and a manufacturer that cares about quality more than large overseas profit margins. I should add I also own high quality dial type gauges and these inexpensive Milton pencil gauges are very close in accuracy, surprising even to me.---- People-! - we need to start demanding more good quality US made products, the world used to want our well made merchandise, now US made quality is almost unobtainable and were forced to buy lousy quality low budget import junk --- BRING BACK QUALITY U.S. PRODUCTS & MANUFACTURING !!!

Very good and easy to read pressure gauge.