old school observation.... tire whacker
Observed this weekend...18 wheeler operator using a metal rod , strolled around his rig... whacked each tire. No TPMS, no digital tire pressure gauge. The man makes a living driving big rigs. Hm...
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K3WE wrote:
Me: TPMS is good to monitor pressure on the go...Bobbo wrote:
In which case, the tire thumping at the next stop will detect it.
You stop every 30 min??? Hour??? I easily go three to four hours between bio-breaks.
It's anything but rare to loose all your air between stops- and then the tire is trashed, and maybe comes apart and tears up the relatively thin walls of your camper or the tarp material underneath.
A TPMS will give you a warning well before the tire starts deforming, flopping and self-destructing...
Nice try, thanks for playing.
Now that's funny. The vast majority of RVers don't have TPMS systems, so tire whacking beats what they have now. And for what its worth, I, personally, have a TPMS system on my RV. However, I still understand the value of tire whacking as a detection device.
