Tyre pressure/temp monitor cheap

Find something not made in China today?

umm my 4 kids.............. hahahaha

Any idea how they go if you have to put in a tube. Rubbing on clamps, etc.

Dunno mate, my guess is that it will damage the tube somehow. So it's probably not a good idea.

Beware they are poor quality!

ACDC are you talking about the ebay one or the US one?

The one's on ebay are in the USA but made in China i know of a company that tested them and they reported they were very poor quality and very short battery life, i think they are not even made anymore this is just old stock being flogged off so be careful and ask questions first!

Crazie,
You go first hey?? ;-)
Matt

As far as I know and can work out the alarm will just go off and the warnings will go on and I assime you can just silent it by pressing a button or something.

I'd be tempted, but reading through blurb, says nothing about alarm. Maybe when you hear flump, flump, wablle, bang, you press the button for relevant tyre and it tells you it's flat. If that is the case, a bit pointless really.

Hello Roachie,
I contacted Ballina Tyre and 4WD BT&4wd a few months ago about the Sensa Tyre units.
Through them I swapped a few emails with their supplier. The gist of it is they'll have a six tyre unit any time now.
When they can source a suitable display the next is a ten tyre unit.
Their supplier did come up with a valid comment. He's prepared to do a deal on the four and six input units if you buy two sets. He'll also throw in a remote antenna for the trailer units.
His thoughts on this are you can switch off/remove the second system when you're not towing.
If you're interested I'll dig out and MM you the correspondence.

Geoff.

Roachie

I am pretty sure you can just buy extra sensors. They only activate once the tyre starts moving

Hi Troll81,
You can buy extra sensors and according to the man from Sensa Tyre they each have a unique serial number. As you say they do not transmit until you reach 5km/h.
Only flaw with the four tyre unit is they will only monitor the four programed wheels but in Roachies case will ignore the other two wheels (Say the trailer) unless you buy two of the four wheel displays.
When you fit a spare you have to know the sender serial number of the wheel you are fitting to "tell" the display about it or that wheel will be ignored and the removed one will still be monitored. Or at least that channel of the display will sit there waiting for the removed wheel to exceed 5km/h.
Around the same time I sent some questions to a couple of EBay sellers about buying extra wheel sensors. They to a man (woman) came back with the same answer, "I dunno, doesn't say anything about that on the box"

Geoff.

HI Geoff

Thanks for the info. I am going to email these guys in the US and see what they say. Will let you know

Thanks Troll 81 that'd be much appreciated.

Geoff.

Found this. You have to read down to second type of display unit. Does up to 20 tyres (might be enough)

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Just copy & paste

http://www.autron.com.au/newweb/index1280.htm

Hi PK,
I've looked at the Autron.
For me at least the user interface was clunky and "industrial" it lacked the finish and professional look of the LC Display units.
Others may and probably will have a different opinion.

Thanks for the links,

Geoff.

Don't know if it helps, but if you look further, they have a new 52mm standard display guage now. Look under new product releases.

Hi Geoff

I got a email back from the guys. You get 4 in the setup and you can buy extra sensors, but they only sell them in pairs and that's $169 US for the pair....it's getting a bit expensive for me I think.

Yep, gotta agree.....sounding kinda expensive to do it the way I'd be happy with...(ie: separate sensor in each tyre....and I've got 9 to do; or 11 if I include the other 2 interchangable ones on the 7x4 box trailer). When I consider the fact that to date I have NEVER lost a tyre through blow-out (I've probably just jinxed myself!!! hahaha) and a new tyre is around $300-, why would anybody want to spend over $1,000- getting a system like this all set-up? Great idea, but too many $$$$$$$$$ for my liking.

Agree. Good idea, but too expensive.

I am going to keep searching till I find something I like. I found this site but I don't like the display and the sensors screw onto the valve's
another link

'Tis better. Works out at c.AUD$500 + freight for 4 tyre system. The valve stem system has some
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If tyre (sorry, tire) has to be changed, easy to put sensor over to spare.
Faulty sensor, easy to replace.
You don't have to pull tyres apart to alter things.

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Maybe susceptible to damaged.

Although some sort of anti-pilfer collar, can be stolen. Perhaps unlikely unless they can get to unit as well. Would also need to know what it is.

assume they would balance up alright with sensor on, but if you removed them when say in possible theft areas or damage likely areas may affect balance.

Possible, but keep looking LOL

I was concerned about the possibility of them being flogged too....mongrels will steal the eye out of a needle these days, even if they don't know what something is good for!!!

However, you wouldn't really need to have them on the vehicle around town I'd say,.....just screw them on when you head off on highway and bush trips. Probably remove them when you air down to go on sand or other rough terrain (to avoid them being ripped off and they'd only give you false warnings at those times anyway.

Looks like the sensor is a throw-away item once battery goes flat. I couldn't see how much the replacement sensors are to buy?

Still gunna work out expensive, but you'd only need as many as the number of tyres you have on the ground.....unlike the other system where you have have enough to put on your spare tyres too.

Could be a goer.