Opinions wanted on tire monitors

NMDriver wrote:
TMS are fine to let you know if you have a leak, but I find them just about useless for a blowout or bearing overheating. I still check the temp of my tires and hubs at every stop.

By the time TMS registers a tire pressure is up due to heat the tire is wasted and needs to be changed anyway. I have pulled over due to the tire pressure being high and found chunks of my tread missing. So maybe it saved the actual blowout but it did not keep me from rolling around in the sand and cockle burrs at 110 degree to change a tire.

I check my tires each morning before I roll and, as stated, feel for temp changes on hubs and tires at each stop.

A TPMS that measures temp and pressure will let you know if your tire is heating up. Nothing prevents you from still manually checking your hubs and tires at the gas station... this system allow you to check on the 400 miles driven between gas stations. Your pressure could be perfect in the gas station... then you pick up a nail in your tire on the way out. Your lose a pound of pressure per mile... I'd rather know 10 miles out that I lost 10 lbs of pressure as opposed to suddenly have a blow out in the worst possible location.