tyre pressure monitors

Personally I would not use that style.
1. I prefer the valve stems that I have.
2. Flat tyre = tyre sensor smashed?

Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 Motorhome

Hi Peter, but if the system worked as it was meant to, wouldn't you be alerted to a problem prior to the tyre going flat, unless of course you had a blow out?
Would you mind giving a bit more info on the system that you use. Thanks & cheers

I have a set of Kysonix screw on sensors Have saved me the cost of two tyres on the van so far so have payed their way.

Have a look at Dereks site www.sidewinder.com.au He sells smilar to mine at a good price.

I have 8 sensors with mine and the only trouble I have had is sometimes the

back l/h ones drop out due I think to the receiver mounted on the r/h side of

the dash which is as far away from them it can be.

The r/h ones have never dropped out so think that I have sorted the problem.

Too much metal between sensor and receiver.

They can be individually set for different pressures so the van and car are 15lb different.

Cheers

Sorry Zacc,
I cant comment on the TPMS you mentioned but I can certainly vouch for the "Air Aware" TPMS we got from Repco. 40,000km including Gibb etc and they worked a treat. Easy to operate and plenty of warning on the odd slow leaking tyre.
There are quite a few brands to consider.

Dan

We have sensatyre on both our van and 4x4 can't fault them have done over 30000ks with them, 20000k of that towing the van. You set the max temp, max and min Psi and if the tyres go out of these parameters an alarm sounds then you pull up and check the wheel that caused the alarm and before any major damage. Our Current van is a 24ft offroad Paradise Explorer XL no dramas.

Hi there. Just a quick comment: I use the valve stem type (Tyredog) and it is more to do with picking the change in pressure (or temperature) than in absolute accuracy. I saved a tyre on my first trip because of this.
I don't like the vulnerability of the valve stem type, but I do like the ability to easily put the sender on the spare wheel after a tyre change. I personally remove the senders in the dune country, since I don't want to lose them, and I don't think there's as much value in pressure senders when you're running 16 PSI anyway!
I don't much like the idea of having to remove the tyres to fit the senders, and I don't like the idea of risking damage when changing a tyre. With the valve stem type, I can remove the senders before I visit the tyre depot, and replace them afterwards.
My main bitch with these things is the constant stream of information that I would rather not know about (ignorance is bliss!) like rear tyres heating up when heavily loaded, or how you're supposed to heed the 4 PSI rule without pumping your tyres up to 60 PSI!

Everynew car sold in the USA now has a TPMS on the 4 wheels. What system do the manufacturers use i wonder? Michael

A friend of ours is towing a caravan from Cape Byron to Steep Point at the moment and phoned us from somewhere on the Plenty the other day.

He has a TPMS setup and this is what he did. He bought two of the 4 wheel sensor Tyredog kits. He puts one receiver on the steering wheel column for the vehicle and the other monitor in front of his wife for the caravan.

Strangely enough, and very fortunately, none of the sensors interfere with any of the sensors from the other kit.

One of the van tyres started to leak and he was able to stop and apply two plugs before it totally deflated and incurred any damage.

That's a pretty good arrangement I thought.

You dont need two expensive Tyredog sets

Go to www.kysonix.com and pick the one you want.

I have an 8 wheel set and with 2 learnable spares only cost half the price of a Tyredog set.

The guy to email is Justin Liu.

He will set them up to the pressures you want and you can also alter them on the screen.

I have my car set at 45lb and the van at 55lb

Has already saved 2 tyres.

They supply them for up to about 44 wheels with extra boosters for the trailers