Tire pressure monitors

packnrat wrote:
yes i can understand "insurance". just as a life long commercial driver. i am always checking things like tires, drips, things hanging, etc. even stop every couple hrs to check on them. legs enjoy the stretch. and get to do a couple other things.
yes new truck has them, are they even on the correct corrner of the truck? ( second owner) i do not even know how to bring up that display.

What happens if right after stopping and checking the tires with a gauge and while pulling out you pick up some road debris and the tire starts leaking. Enough of a leak that the tire is going be flat in less than an hour? How well you know it till it shreds the tire and tears the side of the trailer up before you notice.

I had a tire going down on me after a stop and I checked the pressure. Down the road a ways my alarm went off and I pulled over and the 80 PSI tire was down to 50 # and it alarmed me when it dropped to 70 #.

I always get a kick out people say they check them with a gauge and it pops into my mind like a cartoon of a guy running down the road with a tire gauge in his hand trying to catch up to his valve so he can check his pressure.

I'm just joking because it is no skin off me one way or the if you choose to not run a TPMS but I have ran them for years. My first one was a Doran (this the same time frame as the first Pressure Pro came out) and I would not be without a system.

The system that came on the Jeep I use to have saved a flat on the freeway, as I was driving down the road just about 20 miles from our home and had an alarm I could see by the monitor the tire was losing pressure. I made it off the freeway to a Walmart. They took it right in and proceeded to show me what I had ran over. It was the metal shank of a screwdriver that fell off from somebodies rig. The metal shank was around 10" long. The plastic part of the handle was gone. I remember hearing a sound when I was changing lanes only 6 miles from home. The TPMS saved me again.

This is IMO