What Tire Monitoring System to get?

TST makes great systems and has top notch customer service.

I have a TPMS system from Tire- Safeguard. I like this because I don’t need a booster to receive signals from my toad as others do. 6 flow through sensors on the motorhome and 4 cap sensors on the car. Works well for me.

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TireMinder is my favorite. Great customer service.

Having just done this, I will offer the following: price..? Queries seem to indicate that they all work as described. Warranty..? 1 year, 3 year, lifetime. Features..? Some you set the high AND low psi alarm, some are Factory set within the “box” , seems that most have a hard set temp alarm. Better ones come with a separate repeater booster. I went with the Tire Traker. With it you set your base psi and it alarms at 15% under and 25% over your base setting. It will sense rapid or slow psi drops and will alarm. It was easy to program. 7 day a week support, I tested this with a question last Sunday, and they did answer the phone! Make sure that the Xmitters have replaceable batteries. Flow through seem to stick out too far, and to me anyhow just present another place for leaks.

ncrowley wrote:
TireMinder is my favorite. Great customer service.

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bobkatmsu wrote:

ncrowley wrote:
TireMinder is my favorite. Great customer service.

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I have it on the coach and the toad.

I have been using the TST 507 for about 18 months. It is very reliable and I have had no problems with it. I use the repeater and even with a 42 foot coach, it reads my toad tires without problems.

The advantages in my opinion are:

• Replaceable batteries
• flow thru sensors
• senses temperature
• easily programmable limits and alarms for pressure and temperature
• Automatically disables toad tires when out of range (i.e. using toad)
• monitors sensor battery levels
• clear and easy to read display

I bought my system with flow-thru sensors (12) which works great. If I was going to do it again, I would stay with the flow-thru sensors for the coach, but use the smaller and lighter sensor caps for the toad.

VMSpc is working to integrate the TST system into their program.

P.S. I read a few times where people have said the flow-thru sensors are slow to fill, but personally, I have not observed this to be true. Certainly for the few times I have needed to adjust air pressures, it has not been the case.

Not sure how accurate the temperatures are, but they seem realistic. I use a hand held thermometer to check them when stopped.