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I haven't found this to be true...they come preset at 18psi and this is suitable for beach and even difficult firetrails if your vehicle isn't too heavy. Off the top-of-my-head each half a turn represents 3psi and this is also accurate. The key to them not going out of adjustment is to tighten the lock 'nut' with a pair of pliers rather than just finger tight...

All these people that reckon they don't use them should give them to someone who will...

Hi Chucky
I have had a set of Stauns for several years from when I ran a towing service which also covered beach recoveries. Having to take my cruiser to the beach sometimes a couple times a day they quickly paid for themselves in time saved deflating tyres. What I would do was drive to about 1 km from the beach access point then stop & fit the Stauns, then when arriving at the beach the tyres were already to go on the sand.
They are a breeze to set up, one turn of the Allen key = about 2psi I think from memory, it is so long since I needed to adjust them ;-).

One trick I learned for setting.....use a bicycle tyre, or wheelbarrow tyre maybe, much much quicker to deflate & re-inflate for checking settings.

Further to time saving, I mounted a 17 CFM Honda powered compressor to the 75 ute back - 40 seconds to go from 16 to 36psi in the 33's. Quicker than most service stations.

Picture this though....one night about 11pm, called to a beach to recover a bogged Jeep, owners first trip to the beach, he let his tyres down to around 6psi, AFTER getting bogged. Obviously a accountant/non mechanical type, on seeing & hearing the deafening Honda cranking away (at midnight by now) he innocently said "gosh that thing is efficient...does it run off your battery?"

I did refrain from laughing too.

Enough from me

Regards

Neil.

Chucky, I don't have any problems setting them, they're pretty accurate. If you don't tighten the lock nut you can accidentally adjust them when fitting/unfitting to tyre but you only do it once then make sure its tight. Nonchalantly offer to take them off your mates hands for $20-. if he doesn't use them he's in font & I'm pretty sure you won't regret it.

...no allen key hole on mine, jst a fiddly retaining ring. I gave up trying to set them to precise pressures...about 4 hours into trying to set them off the spare was enough for me. I reckon it is quicker and more accurate to use a stick and a tyre gauge IMHO.

I found them hard to set & quite inaccurate.
I put a lot of time into setting them to 28psi, resetting the pressure on the set up tyre after setting each one.
When I double checked them one at a time, I found they varied by almost 5 psi.
I have absolutely no idea how long it would take to set them all accurately, it would just be trial & error.
I think for once I might be with Truckster on this one!

Addendum to the above.

When I mentioned this to Staun at the Melbourne 4x4 Show, I was told to send them back for setting at the factory, & there would be a $10.00 charge!
I gathered from this, that my complaint is not uncommon, as he had no advice as to how to set them accurately, other than to return them for factory setting. I noticed when they demo them at the shows that they only set one, not 4.

You probably did this anyway, but cos you didn't say so, I'll just add that you shouldn't drive off after fitting the Stauns (IMHO).

They are quite heavy and can (apparently) cause the stem to break off, or they can deflate the tyre entirely.

Just use them to reduce pressures and then remove them before setting off again on your merry. Speaking of which; Merry Xmas

Yes, good point, I did remove them but I did leave it out of my description. Before I had them I was under the impression that you left them on, but after pulling them out of the packet you would'nt want to do that, not only the weight but the grit and crap getting into the what would seem delicate valves would be a problem.

But yeah, what a cool product, somthing I just couldn't justify to spend the dow on myself, but a great present for someone!