lanerd wrote:
Photomike wrote:
wildtoad wrote:
My toad ( also daily driver) has one and find it mostly worthless as I check pressures regularly. I don't think I would have paid extra for one. However, it may be helpful should a tire go flat while being towed. I do not have one on my mh.
My question is how will you know if it goes flat when being towed? Does it communicate with the motor home or is it just on the vehicle?
Photomike's reply above is confusing. The built-in TPMS installed on cars by their manufactures do not communicate with any other TPMS. Therefore, you have to get an aftermarket TPMS that will have sufficient amount of sensors for all the tires including the toad. Case in point, my Pressure Pro TPMS has provisions for 16 tires, but I only have sensors on 13.....8 on the mh and 5 (one for the spare) on the toad.
Once disconnected from the motor home, I then rely on the car's built in TPMS to alert me to any problems with the tires on the car (toad) except for the spare.
Hope this helps clear up the confusion.
Ron
Cannot see how this would be confusing, the OP was mentioning that they had a TPS in there toad but not in the motor home but also mentioned that "
However, it may be helpful should a tire go flat while being towed.". So how will they know if they are towing the vehicle if only the toad has TPS? There is no way to know what the system is doing in the toad unless it is hooked up to the MH.
My point is that this will not work and if someone thinks that it will alert them then they are missing something.
