Snowbird tire shredding today
DW and I were driving our mini MH today on I-75S, from Macon to I-10. Wall to wall snowbirds. We saw 4 or 5 trailers pulled over with blowouts. One was a horse trailer, one was a smallish utility/ ca...
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powderman426 wrote:Me Again wrote:
TPMS only catch about 50 percent of the tire problems before it is to late. The other fifth percent is just an alarm that the tire is in a million pieces.
Could you please give us a link to those statistics??
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811681.pdf Look at section:
6. Discission
In reading a bit about TPMS to respond to you, it is seem there are a few issues the industry is dealing with. Proper maintenance is being over looked and components are failing due to corrosion. Valve cores must be a special nickle plated ones. Aluminum parts are corroding in area where roads are treated with chemicals in the winter.
http://www.tirereview.com/Article/106844/reader_comments_tpms_sensor_corrosion_a_big_issue.aspx
I have seen posts by and talked to people that said they gave up on their system do due to sensor leaking issues.
The theory of TPMS is good, it is just a young child not fully developed. For car and trucks there is not yet standardization of sensor components and batteries.
People have to understand it is just one tool among many. Step one in a lot of cases is to switch to the best tires available for your trailer, and in a very high number of cases that is not the OEM low bid bean counter ones the manufacturer installed.
I would much rather run really high quality tires that have very low failure rates reported without a TPMS, than run cheap OEM tires with a TPMS. We all have to decide where to spend your hard earned dollars. I put mine first into tires. I was going to maybe buy a TPMS at my last trailer tire installation two years ago, however the tire shop did not have bolt in valve stems that would fix my aluminum wheels. Bad planning on my part!
Chris
