Snowbird tire shredding today

Me Again wrote:

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

Nice Try, but no cigar.

That information is about passenger cars and light trucks equiped with a factory system and not the TPMS that we use on RV's. In reading the information I see that about 2/3 of all units only report with a warning light after a tire has lost more than 25% of proper pressure, does not indicate which tire has a problem, or give any indication of the tire overheating while a TPMS that we use gives a warning at 15% underinflation, which tire, and tire temperature. I fully argree on buying the best tires for your situation and that is why I bought Maxxis tires and moved up a load range at the same time. Will a TPMS save you every time?? I can't answer that but probably not. It can and has notified me of a problem after I picked up a 3/8" bolt in a tire and the only damage I had was to the tire unlike the time before that when a tire blew and took out all of my propane lines as well as a portion of the siding near the bottom. I fixed that damage myself, but I am sure if I were to take it into a repair facility it would have been well over $1000 so I am money ahead already. So the bottom line is I am a firm believer in a TPMS and also in favor of a quality CO detector as either of them may save you more than money. They may save your life.