TPMS recommendations needed

4Fielders wrote:
New tires are most certainly on my horizon. However, as has been said, new rubber won't prevent nails and other debris from causing a flat. I'd always assumed I'd feel a flat. I learned otherwise on the ND/MT border on our last trip. Pulled off for fuel and discovered one of the trailer tires wasn't just flat, it was gone. All that was left was two beads of rubber around the rim. Thankfully there wasn't damage to the trailer. God only knows how far we'd driven like that.

TST is the brand I'm leaning towards. Thanks for the replies.

I have the TST 507 system and like it. I have had it one year now. I have converted to LT tires already, (that is another topic...) and I have metal valve stems which I would recommend you have. There have been several reported cases of fatiguing the rubber stems. Why risk it. That is as bad as the tire issue.

My truck in the sig, crew cab short bed and 32 foot TT and it did not need the booster antenna. At least yet anyway, I did buy it and have not mounted it yet. A buddy of mine has his on his 5er (41 foot) and he needed it. Some rigs need the booster and others don't.

I did not get the flow through 507 which has a nice feature as you can add/let out air without removing the sensor. That feature is a nice option but in my case it would stick out a lot (approx 3/4 to 1") beyond the tire side wall. I was concerned if I came close to or brushed the tire with something I would prune off the sensor and then have a bigger problem. So far using the "non" flow through have not been an issue.

Since the TST also reads temperature if you end up with a brake problem and that heats the whole rim and all after enough time, it can pick that up too.

I feel the TST was a good investment. Like you, I had to deal with 3 tread detachments inside the tire on the same 1,500 mile trip. All of those I found just by looking before they let go. The first one I found in my yard before we left. The 2nd at a gas stop and the 3rd one when we just came home. And by the way, they where not made in China either, in the Denmen plant in Mexico. I'm always looking at the rig and hitch at every stop, but I still got the TPM. A tire failure out on the road can really mess up a good trip. If you lived it only once.... that was one time too many.

Good luck with yours

John