Tire Pressure Monitor system

artguys wrote:
Eyes on...hands on, with a professional guage/Dill or Schrader, is the best approach to maintaining proper tires pressures. These systems work when properly installed and maintained, that being a requirement by the owner. But the average user treats these as fail safe units.
Iv'e tested these types of systems and have found they require as much attention as just checking the tires one at a time manually. They are subject to failure as any mechanical device would be. Contact your nearest Meyers Tire Supply and buy a professional tire guage. And while traveling check tires at each stop. On this site and many others blow outs are a too often mentioned theme. Most blow outs are a consequence of neglect rather that product failure or road hazard issues.

I disagree with the above...I agree that you have to get down and use a tire guage...but these systems do give you instant info....I never had them but this last unit came with them..so I used them..then decided to buy four for my Jeep..and a repeater...now on the road at high speed..i will see that every now and again I will lose the signal....but it comes back
awhile back, we had unhooked the Jeep and went shopping.....came back to the Rv..pulled up behind it and started to unload what we bought...wife said to me as she went inside RV..there is an alarm going off...went and checked..it said right front tire on jeep was losing air.....went and checked...sure enough , we picked up a nail in the jeep...had time to go to tire shop and get it fixed before was totally flat......Now, that is where it works...Chuck