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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Atom Ant wrote:powderman426 wrote:
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.
Where did carbon monoxide (CO) come into this? If you were trying to say combustible gas detector - wrong detector.
TPMS is detection - just like any other detection. It is only effective if you have done everything to eliminate the hazard first. Smoke detectors give early warning of fire, but the way to prevent fire is minimize the fire hazard. TPMS is great tire trouble detector, but to first minimize tire trouble, get a quality tire.
The CO alarm had nothing to do with this thread, but I felt the need to mention it as most RV's come with a cheap unit while having a decent one with a readout on it cost very little and may save your life.
Now as for the need for a TPMS vs good tires, I said and will reiterate it is best to get the best tires you can. But having the best tires does nothing for you when you pickup a piece of road debris like I did. So the bottom line is you don't have to take my advise but trust me when I say that if you travel long enough it will happen to you and then you can come back and say " Gee I should have listened to the old man."
