Car Tire Pressure Monitoring System

[ravip]

Was thinking of going in for a device mentioned above. Saw a couple of models advertised and offered by Lazada. Any recommendations, personal experiences in using these devices?

[transam]

Problem is if a sensor was faulty how would you know...Perhaps there is stuff in the system to monitor that, I don't know...I prefer to use my trusty thingy every week....????

[Pilotman]

5 minutes ago, transam said:

Problem is if a sensor was faulty how would you know...Perhaps there is stuff in the system to monitor that, I don't know...I prefer to use my trusty thingy every week....????

I try to use my 'thingy' two or three times a week, but sometimes I'm just too tired. Mine doesn't look like that mate? 

[ravip]

3 minutes ago, transam said:

Problem is if a sensor was faulty how would you know...Perhaps there is stuff in the system to monitor that, I don't know...I prefer to use my trusty thingy every week....????

Yes, you have a point there.

But, on the other hand as there are four independent sensors on the 4 wheels errors could be minimised or detected easily?

[fredob43]

I had one fitted to my old Tuna. Very handy. It would give you a read out every few seconds of Tyre pressure also temp: of each tyre. It also lets you know if you have a slow puncher/problem (Warning sound) enabling you to get it fixed before you buggered the tyre.

My one was fitted by Toyo when lump was new. As a freebee. I would have had one fitted on the new lump but forgot to ask them to fit it. Saves all that buggering about and getting your hands dirty with those hand held things.   

[worgeordie]

I bought one from Aliexpress, it lasted about 2 weeks,

the battery would no longer charge,so bought new battery

also from Aliexpress,waited over two months,did not arrive,

got my money back,ordered from another supplier on Aliexpress,

its nearly been 3 months now,a month ago the supplier said

the battery was in Thailand....has another 12 days and I will 

hopefully get my money back again, there is a problem with

Chinese shippers sending Lithium batteries,I have another

couple of products with rechargeable batteries that i cannot

get new batteries for.

regards worgeordie

[ravip]

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

I bought one from Aliexpress, it lasted about 2 weeks,

the battery would no longer charge,so bought new battery

also from Aliexpress,waited over two months,did not arrive,

got my money back,ordered from another supplier on Aliexpress,

its nearly been 3 months now,a month ago the supplier said

the battery was in Thailand....has another 12 days and I will 

hopefully get my money back again, there is a problem with

Chinese shippers sending Lithium batteries,I have another

couple of products with rechargeable batteries that i cannot

get new batteries for.

regards worgeordie

Yes, you are right. Sending Lithium batteries seems to be an issue. I too gave up after about 3 orders went missing via ebay. The problem is, when you order only the battery it seems. With the device its fine. (The current airline regulations, I guess)

[transam]

4 minutes ago, ravip said:

Yes, you have a point there.

But, on the other hand as there are four independent sensors on the 4 wheels errors could be minimised or detected easily?

But if advised the pressure was low on one and topped it up so all was OK and that one tyre now had 50 psi instead of 30 ....????

 

Of course one could pull out their trusty tyre gauge just to check...

[fredob43]

1 minute ago, worgeordie said:

I bought one from Aliexpress, it lasted about 2 weeks,

the battery would no longer charge,so bought new battery

also from Aliexpress,waited over two months,did not arrive,

got my money back,ordered from another supplier on Aliexpress,

its nearly been 3 months now,a month ago the supplier said

the battery was in Thailand....has another 12 days and I will 

hopefully get my money back again, there is a problem with

Chinese shippers sending Lithium batteries,I have another

couple of products with rechargeable batteries that i cannot

get new batteries for.

regards worgeordie

My one that was fitted by Toyo didn't have a problem with batteries in the sensors, they had a guarantee for over 5 years was working fine when I sold it some 8+ years later. Seems it depends on what and where you get one.

[worgeordie]

1 minute ago, fredob43 said:

My one that was fitted by Toyo didn't have a problem with batteries in the sensors, they had a guarantee for over 5 years was working fine when I sold it some 8+ years later. Seems it depends on what and where you get one.

It was not the batteries in sensors,they are just button batteries,

can buy anywhere,it was the battery in the unit.

regards worgeordie

[fredob43]

12 minutes ago, transam said:

But if advised the pressure was low on one and topped it up so all was OK and that one tyre now had 50 psi instead of 30 ....????

 

Of course one could pull out their trusty tyre gauge just to check...

Mine was very accurate when you had a low pressure one would top it up with your trusty pressure gauge as normal.  

Like to know how your trusty pressure gauge works when you are doing 100kph. Also does your P/G give you a read out every few seconds.

Edited April 9, 2019 by fredob43

[fredob43]

Just now, worgeordie said:

It was not the batteries in sensors,they are just button batteries,

can buy anywhere,it was the battery in the unit.

regards worgeordie

Mine didn't have a battery in the read out it was wired to the 12v. Seems as I have said depends on what set up you have.

[transam]

5 minutes ago, fredob43 said:

Like to know how your trusty pressure gauge works when you are doing 100kph. Also does it give you a read out every few seconds.

If you have a blow out at 100kmh you will NOT be checking you gizmo for advice...????

Every few seconds....Try keeping your eyes on the road...????

[Golden Triangle]

I just wander around my motor, kick the tyres, if I hurt my big toe then I'm good to go ????

[fredob43]

17 minutes ago, transam said:

If you have a blow out at 100kmh you will NOT be checking you gizmo for advice...????

Every few seconds....Try keeping your eyes on the road...????

I know you know lots about Cars but seems you have no idea about how these systems work. It would advise you if you have a problem with your tyre so you don't get things like a blow out.

 

As far as looking at it every few minutes, no need you just checked for any problems when you turned on your lump in the morning before setting off. After that you relied on the audible warning it would give you if you had a problem. My one was so good. When I did have a problem and my pressure dropped by 1lb one morning it gave me an audible warning when I first turned on.

Checked and could find anything wrong. But took it to the local tyre shop just in case they checked and found a small nail in one tyre. Does your Trusty tyre pressure gauge do that.  

Edited April 9, 2019 by fredob43

[transam]

1 minute ago, fredob43 said:

I know you know lots about Cars but seems you have no idea about how these systems work. It would advise you if you have a problem with your tyre so you don't get a blow out.

 

As far as looking at it every few minutes, no need you just checked for any problems when you turned on your lump in the morning before setting off. After that you relied on the audible warning it would give you if you had a problem. My one was so good. When I did have a problem and my pressure dropped by 1lb one morning it gave me an audible warning when I first turn on.

Checked and could find anything wrong. But took it to the local tyre shop just in case they checked and found a small nail in one tyre. Does your Trusty tyre pressure gauge do that.  

You obviously have never had a blow out.....Tyre pressures could be perfect yet the thing could and can disintegrate without notice...I have the T-shirt for that in an HGV.......

[fredob43]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

You obviously have never had a blow out.....Tyre pressures could be perfect yet the thing could and can disintegrate without notice...I have the T-shirt for that in an HGV.......

As I have said you don't know how these things work. Any problem with a tyre overheating/pressure. ANYTHING and you get an audible warning so you wouldn't get things like a blow out.

[ravip]

56 minutes ago, fredob43 said:

My one that was fitted by Toyo didn't have a problem with batteries in the sensors, they had a guarantee for over 5 years was working fine when I sold it some 8+ years later. Seems it depends on what and where you get one.

By any chance do you remember the make and model?

[ravip]

59 minutes ago, fredob43 said:

My one that was fitted by Toyo didn't have a problem with batteries in the sensors, they had a guarantee for over 5 years was working fine when I sold it some 8+ years later. Seems it depends on what and where you get one.

By any chance, do you remember the make and model?

[Anythingleft?]

As I have said you don't know how these things work. Any problem with a tyre overheating/pressure. ANYTHING and you get an audible warning so you wouldn't get things like a blow out.

Provided you have the temp part installed, not all are a combined system and most blow outs are caused purely from low pressure which creates the heat to destroy the tyre

Seemingly a not needed add on to the system

Even direct systems being more accurate than indirect are not as accurate as 1lb by the way.....

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[Fruit Trader]

1 hour ago, transam said:

Problem is if a sensor was faulty how would you know...Perhaps there is stuff in the system to monitor that, I don't know...I prefer to use my trusty thingy every week....????

With a Lazada purchase, your tyre ('tire' in the old world) pressure and life will depend upon how much Shenzhen build quality, engineering and fault detection went into a 700 Baht remote monitoring system.

[ravip]

14 minutes ago, Fruit Trader said:

With a Lazada purchase, your tyre ('tire' in the old world) pressure and life will depend upon how much Shenzhen build quality, engineering and fault detection went into a 700 Baht remote monitoring system.

REALLY? You never use or used 'Shenzhen' products?

Please let me know a brand that has quality. Yes, I am interested.

Thank you very much!

[transam]

4 minutes ago, ravip said:

REALLY? You never use or used 'Shenzhen' products?

Please let me know a brand that has quality. Yes, I am interested.

Thank you very much!

Fink all the Chinese manufactured stuff is quality....

 

Must be...My chum bought an MG....

[fredob43]

47 minutes ago, ravip said:

By any chance, do you remember the make and model?

Sorry haven't a clue what name of Mod: I can only tell you it was fitted by Toyo when I obtained the new lump: They also supplied it. You might like to check with your local Toyo dealer. Shouldn't think they would turn a job down.

 

[ravip]

2 minutes ago, fredob43 said:

Sorry haven't a clue what name of Mod: I can only tell you it was fitted by Toyo when I obtained the new lump: They also supplied it. You might like to check with your local Toyo dealer. Shouldn't think they would turn a job down.

 

Thank you. Shall give it a try.

[fredob43]

1 hour ago, Anythingleft? said:

Provided you have the temp part installed, not all are a combined system and most blow outs are caused purely from low pressure which creates the heat to destroy the tyre

Seemingly a not needed add on to the system

Even direct systems being more accurate than indirect are not as accurate as 1lb by the way.....

Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk
 

My Toyo set up was very accurate. As said it lost 1lb over night and I received an audible warning telling me there was a problem. Checked what tyre it said and went and looked. Couldn't see that anything was amiss.

 

Thought it was playing up and was giving me an incorrect reading that was after I had used my trusty Tyre gauge. Whatever still took it in the next day to shop, as it was still telling me it had a problem. They found a "Very Small" nail in the tread so it wasn't telling porkies. Conclusion. Machine 1 human Zero:

 

My one also had a temp gauge fitted in it.  Quite a difference from cold to running temp: also a much higher pressure. But as long as everything was in order you would be fine.

 

Only one problem I found was it used to give you a read out starting from the front off side wheel going in a clockwise direction including the spare one. But would read incorrectly if you had your wheels changed round.

 

Would still start and finish from front off side but as you had changed the wheels around wouldn't let you know what wheel had the problem. Unless you kept a check what wheel was where. Not the end of the world to see as the valve had a different colour on it. A quick look in the book would tell you what should have been where where. Whatever a bit of a pain when you had had a 20th service.

 

N/B It did run a lot cooler when I changed my tyres and they filled them with Nitro.

Edited April 9, 2019 by fredob43

[Fruit Trader]

51 minutes ago, ravip said:

REALLY? You never use or used 'Shenzhen' products?

Please let me know a brand that has quality. Yes, I am interested.

Thank you very much!

How strange, cant find anything about my use or non use of Shenzhen products in previous post but I guess its between the lines somewhere. 

 

However, we do own a S-Pack form fill and seal packaging machine from Shenzhen which after a few minor tweaks has proved to be extremely reliable. I also have a brand X dough mixer from Shenzhen which mechanically is complete sack of crap.

[ravip]

1 minute ago, Fruit Trader said:

How strange, cant find anything about my use or non use of Shenzhen products in previous post but I guess its between the lines somewhere. 

 

However, we do own a S-Pack form fill and seal packaging machine from Shenzhen which after a few minor tweaks has proved to be extremely reliable. I also have a brand X dough mixer from Shenzhen which mechanically is complete sack of crap.

My primary interest is in a Car Tire Pressure Monitoring System. Can you recommend the best, as you mention that using Shenzhen products could jeopardise tire tyre and life?

Thank you very much.

[fredob43]

2 hours ago, ravip said:

My primary interest is in a Car Tire Pressure Monitoring System. Can you recommend the best, as you mention that using Shenzhen products could jeopardise tire tyre and life?

Thank you very much.

Whatever system you get check it out once it's in place. I never trust anything comp:/in car wise until I have done that. I checked and double checked my tyre thing for the first week or two to see if it kept a good accurate pressure reading, easy with the aid of one of those tyre pressure gauges. All seemed to be fine so I tended to believe it.

 

Confirmed when it told me I had a problem and I didn't believe it. As before it was correct I was wrong.

 

Had a similar problem with the in car comp: telling me what fuel I was using in the new lump: It was so good I thought it wasn't possible. Again after checking comp: correct me wrong.

 

Just buy one that gives you a temp reading as well as pressure, you should then be fine. Once you have checked it of cause.

 

Don't forget you pay Peanuts you get Monkeys.

 

 

Edited April 9, 2019 by fredob43

[canthai55]

If you want easy, and inexpensive ...

Work well. Different pressure ranges available

https://www.google.com/search?q=tire+pressure+monitor+valve+caps&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwij_77Dh8PhAhXWi54KHfwfCAQQ_AUIDygC&biw=1511&bih=698