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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RCMAN46 wrote: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.
I also have the rubber coated brass valve stems, and I think the weight of the sensor may have contributed to the failure. The valve stem did not come out, it just started leaking around where it seats against the wheel. The Pressure Pro immediately alerted me to the issue and I was able to get off the road before the tire went completely flat. There is still air in the tire (15 psi), but when you wiggle the valve stem you can hear air leaking around where it seats. I will be swapping them all out for the steel valve stems.
