Check your lug nuts!
While traveling for the holidays I seen the wheel come flying off a fiver right in front of me! It went bouncing off the road and down an off ramp! I got up next to the guy and started flagging ...
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
I had a blowout/ wheel failure that threw the TPMS sensors off the wheel. The system alerted on a “lost signal”. Since that had happened many times before we didn’t see it as an urgent alarm. The manual doesn’t view lost signal as an urgent alarm. It can occur from interference from other devices on that frequency band.
My truck alerted me that I had lost the trailer brakes connection. That got me slowed down and off the road at a safe spot. One wheel had run about 2,000 ft on the rim by the gouged roadway asphalt. The other wheel was broken and no longer in contact with the road.
I consider a TPMS essential, but not fool proof.
Definitely not fool proof, but any aid is just that. An aid to help.
Do you have a signal booster? If not, you may want to look into one. I put one right off my battery case with a toggle switch. It's mid way between the trailer tires and the reader in my truck. The only time mine loses signal is when the battery is dead on the sensor.
