Tyredog TPMS

Haven't had a chance to get to it yet Graham - unfortunately I'm still one of those people that goes to work before the sun's up and gets home when it's gone out. Saturdays a bit different - only half a day there.

I got a reply back from Tyredog. Their suggestion is to mount the relay up on the cargo barrier or on the rear roof rack - I don't have a roof rack so that ones out. It's interesting that their website says to mount the relay under the vehicle - that's why I put it there.

I'm thinking that up high on the inside of the rear window might also be worth a try.

Your idea of putting it in the boot won't work with the Tyredogs because all sensors rely on the relay to get the signal to the monitor. I want to be able to use the system with or without the van attached.

I'll have another go tomorrow afternoon.

regards

John

Work is a dirty word after 53 years of it.

Interesting, as my set didnt have a relay box even for the van.

My Roadstar seemed to lose signal on L/h side wheels so got the relay to pick them up.
Did make a difference but sold the van.

Have installed it in the front of the battery box in the Coromal but noticed they all worked on the day I didnt turn it on.

I first tried shifting the screen from extreme right of dash to in the centre.
Interestingly it made ALL wheels worse.
Can only think that the amount of metal between senders and receiver is fairly critical.

Maybe in the back bumper in the plastic part rather than under the metal floor will help. As I said most sensors go to sleep and require movement to wake them up.

Cheers Lets know what happens Several on here have Tyredogs.

Thanks for the reply Ian

On the weekend I moved the relay up to the top of the rear window, and then hardwired the relay and the monitor.

I've had intermittent success. Some times all four sensors work (I haven't tried the ones on the van yet), at other times one or two of the sensors don't respond.

I'm starting to suspect the sensor batteries are dodgy. I'll get some new ones I think.

regards

John

Hi Graham

Having an issue with one of my sensor similar to jdbb , first thought was to change battery , but battery measured ok - changed anyway and made no difference -but point of this followup is that I just brought the batteries from nearset Battery place at $4.95 each which I thought was steep.


If I come up with an answer I will post, but best way to test is to take unit off the wheel , the action causes them to both wake up and then transmit a 0 psi signal which should cause an immediate 3 beep warning sequence.

Your hand/body acting as a aerial also causes a stronger radio signal to be sent
and even if they register this way , they may not when returned to wheel.

Solution here is to move the recieving aerial (assuming sender is not stuffed).