TPMS saves the day!
I was towing my rig north bound on I-75, just north of Macon, GA when I heard that dreaded "beeping" sound. I looked at my Pressure Pro TPMS and it showed low air in the left front trailer tire. I p...
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dave17352 wrote:
I have pressure pro also. When I first got them almost ten years ago, I had a tire failure due to rubber stems. I feel the pressure pro's weight caused the problem. I have sense put on steel stems and haven't had the same problem again. It was funny I thought how I had bought these in a effort to prevent exactly what happened to me.
"PressurePro recommends the use of metal valve stems in conjunction with PressurePro Sensors. "
From page 10 of my Pressure Pro manual.
You state you had a tire failure. No low pressure warning? or did the sensor separate from the wheel when the valve stem failed.
Before I heeded the recommendation I had a rubber covered brass valve stem leak which gave a low pressure warning before I had tire damage.
