Monday, Jan 15, 2007 at 16:05
A minute a tyre is still slower when you can only do one tyre at a time.
The advantage the Stauns have over all the other methods is that they do four tyres at the same time - six if you have a set for your camper.
They may be fractionally slower in a 1 on 1 race against the ARB gadget - which looks really good by the way, I was looking at one in the 4wd
shop here the other day - but in a 4 tyre to 4tyre or 6 to 6 challenge I'll put my money on the Stauns.
It's a horses for courses thing.
There's very little need to have the ability to drop tyres to a huge variety of pressures which is the percieved advantage of the ARB device.
If I'm going off road on fire trails or high country tracks I run 22 in the front 26 in the rear (loaded usually for a weekend or more) and that's it. I don't have to change them unless I get stuck and that's not usually an issue.
If I'm playing sand it's 18 front and 22 rear.
Match the pressure on the camper to the front tyres and thats all. I'm not going to haggle about 2 psi here or there. There's no point.
I've generally found the Stauns stop +/- 1 psi of their setting each time if I run a
test on one Staun over several deflations.
If I didn't have Stauns I'd probably try the ARB one out but it won't fit in the glove box, where the two packs of Stauns take up hardly any space at all.
Dave
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