recommendations on tire pressure monitors
Hi, I was planning on a long trip next week. The tires needed to be rotated. During that process one of my three year old Toyo tires (inside driver's rear) was found to have a tread separation and ...
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My new tire monitor got a work out this week. Went to a horse camp back in the wilderness that has no electric. It's about 7 miles back on dirt road. I took the wrong dirt road and had a couple of close calls when the dirt road ran through a stream of water which had torn up the road.
As I pulled into the entry way of the camp a loud beeping rang out. Initially, I didn't know what it was... thought it was my buddies cell phone. finally looked down and moved some stuff out of the way and saw my tire traker red light blinking and saying rapid loss of air on a trailer tire. Let it sit overnight then changed the tire the next morning. Then on the return trip about 12 miles from home it started beeping and the red light started blinking. Another trailer tire with was loosing air. I run my trailer tires at 75 psi and the when the alarm came on the pressure was 35 psi. I went ahead and drove home since it was midnight. Next morning the tire pressure read 19 psi.
The first flat was probably due to being on a dirt road I should not have been on and it was a triangle shaped rock still wedged in the tire. The second flat was caused by I believe clipping a curb when pulling into a convience store late at night. The leak was on the sidewall. Both tires were not repairable... :( Had to replace. My trailer is a 3 horse living quarter trailer and I had 2 horses onboard, so quite a bit of weight. Anyway, the tire monitor did do it's job :)
As I pulled into the entry way of the camp a loud beeping rang out. Initially, I didn't know what it was... thought it was my buddies cell phone. finally looked down and moved some stuff out of the way and saw my tire traker red light blinking and saying rapid loss of air on a trailer tire. Let it sit overnight then changed the tire the next morning. Then on the return trip about 12 miles from home it started beeping and the red light started blinking. Another trailer tire with was loosing air. I run my trailer tires at 75 psi and the when the alarm came on the pressure was 35 psi. I went ahead and drove home since it was midnight. Next morning the tire pressure read 19 psi.
The first flat was probably due to being on a dirt road I should not have been on and it was a triangle shaped rock still wedged in the tire. The second flat was caused by I believe clipping a curb when pulling into a convience store late at night. The leak was on the sidewall. Both tires were not repairable... :( Had to replace. My trailer is a 3 horse living quarter trailer and I had 2 horses onboard, so quite a bit of weight. Anyway, the tire monitor did do it's job :)
