Tire pressure monitoring systems

MarcW wrote:

the silverback wrote:
Haveing read the above comments I will stay with my hand held tire pressure gauge. However, be sure to get a good one. Not a $9.99 special. I am luckly that I can have mine checked at least once a year at lab that is tracable to the national standards.

And when you run over something in the road that starts a leak down of one of your front tires, resulting in heat build-up, that in turn results in a sudden blow-out, that tire guage will be one of the items flying about as you leave the road. Be sure to grab it as it goes by because it's a good one.

And as you read the posts on this topic, there are people that say how their sensors have gone bad and their TPMS was junk. So if one of YOUR sensors goes bad on your front tire, and you go off of the road when the tire goes flat, be sure to send that sensor back and wait for a replacement. That is the problem with putting too much faith in an electronic gadget. They are operating in a harsh environment and they do occasionally fail.