Tire pressure monitoring systems
how accurate are they? worth the 300 price tag? Yes I do realize one answer reflects the other.
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A couple years ago, driving home through Iowa, my TST started beeping.
Drivers side rear inner showed 75 psi, down from 95.
I pulled off the highway immediately. Before I could get out the cellphone to call coachnet it had gone to Zero. Coachnet got there within the hour, installed my unmounted spare, and I was on my way.
I had several tire problems with my first motorhome, an F53 pace arrow. A curb hit. A blowout. A wake up in the morning to find no air in a tire.
I fought the TPMS concept hard. It still bothers me that these things defeat the tire valve and rely on an o ring to seal all the air into the tire. I checked the pressures in that Pace Arrow every morning and then every stop. And said that was enough. And it was not enough.
When I bought the DP, I also got a 10 tire TST system, and when I got the rear tires replaced, kept the best as an onboard unmounted spare.
I had issues with the TST at install, they sent me 2 sensors free immediately. The issues turned out to be operator error programming the system. Last year my display went funky. I pulled the system off to test it, and now I cannot find it! one more look thru the RV tomorrow, and I'll be buying another system. At least I still have the 4 toad sensors...lol.
If only they made one that could read the factory sensors in the new jeep?
Drivers side rear inner showed 75 psi, down from 95.
I pulled off the highway immediately. Before I could get out the cellphone to call coachnet it had gone to Zero. Coachnet got there within the hour, installed my unmounted spare, and I was on my way.
I had several tire problems with my first motorhome, an F53 pace arrow. A curb hit. A blowout. A wake up in the morning to find no air in a tire.
I fought the TPMS concept hard. It still bothers me that these things defeat the tire valve and rely on an o ring to seal all the air into the tire. I checked the pressures in that Pace Arrow every morning and then every stop. And said that was enough. And it was not enough.
When I bought the DP, I also got a 10 tire TST system, and when I got the rear tires replaced, kept the best as an onboard unmounted spare.
I had issues with the TST at install, they sent me 2 sensors free immediately. The issues turned out to be operator error programming the system. Last year my display went funky. I pulled the system off to test it, and now I cannot find it! one more look thru the RV tomorrow, and I'll be buying another system. At least I still have the 4 toad sensors...lol.
If only they made one that could read the factory sensors in the new jeep?
