get this, '19 jeep

rustycowll69 said
well, after the Ford explorer/Firestone tire failures, and probably going the extra mile, so to speak, for optimizing fuel economy, the feds mandated the tire pressure monitoring. So if you have the tpms already, and you have the computers anyway, I imagine it's just a little programming to make it do that, so I don't know how much of a gimmick it is.

I understand the TPMS deal and when well implemented, they don't provide any aggravation. Although early on they caused headaches for owners of some vehicle because when you wanted to swap on a set of snow tires or even rotated tires, you'd have to reprogram them all. The blowing the horn thing is what would annoy me though.

rustycowll69 said
I was certainly unaware of it, and it had no influence on my wife and I buying the car.

And that's really what I'm talking about. I bought a used '14 Grand Cherokee last year and I'm still finding things out that I can't stand. I was trying to back up the trailer and I couldn't see so well, so I opened the door to get it just where I wanted it, but NOOOOO! If you have the door open when in gear it shifts into Park for you. Now I've since found out if I would have left my seat belt on it would have let me backup, but not knowing that at the time I had some very choice words for the marketing people who thought that feature was a good idea. But we're told it's for our own safety, so I gues we should be okay with it.