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Re: Opinions wanted on tire monitors
After a blow out on a previous TT and considering the damage it caused I purchased a Tire Traker Tire Pressure Monitor system for my new trailers four tires. One trip to Canada from So. California and back sold me. The little added stress of not knowing how the tires were doing since one cannot see the rear two tires was eliminated. A quick press of the in cab monitor button and I could read each tires pressure. I was alerted only once when a tire went below the threshold for the plus and minus allowed from the set pressure. I did in fact have a small tack in the tire which was fixed at a convenient tire shop later in the day. A second trip to New Hampshire a year later, I found that due to some erroneous readings I needed to replace the battery in the each of the sensors. Also desert heat had deteriorated the "O" Ring seals and I replaced them. Our 8000 mile trip went like a champ and the tire pressures were monitored continuously. I will not be without them again.386Views0likes0CommentsRe: Opinions wanted on tire monitors
I've been using the Tire Traker tire monitoring system on the four wheels of our 26 foot travel trailer for two trips, one 5500 miles and the second 7600 miles and one year apart. Two things I found was that the 1632 batteries need to be changed each year and the cost of those batteries is super high if purchased at Home Depot (as an example) and cheaper if you get them Techno RV. The second item is the O-Rings on the sensors that screw onto the tire valve stem. My latest trip had the system working OK but the monitor kept indicating that a sensors had problem's. It turned out to be old cracked O-Ring seals. After I replaced the seals with ones I purchased at a hardware store, the sensors worked great for the last 4000 miles of our trip across country. So keep in mind Batteries and O-ring seals.326Views0likes0Comments
