Tyre Pressure Monitoring

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Originally Posted by 130man

Hi All, I just looked up Tyredog on E-bay and there is a set from Taiwan at $170 for four sensors but the same thing for six sensors is twice the price. I run two spares so the set of six would be of interest. Anyone suggest why an extra two sensors should double the price? Cheers, 130man.

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Lower sales volume, extra sensors, different display for 6 wheel positions.
The sensors just screw on to the valves, just swap them over when you change the tyre. That what I do.

The 6 sensor unit is aimed at trailers

Tony

Hi TonyC, thanks for that reply. Good points. Cheers, 130man.

I should add the the sensors come with locking rings. I don't use them because
A ) It makes it fiddly to get them off to adjust the tyre pressures.
B ) The 130 is rarely any where I get very concerned about bits being knocked off, that said I did take them off whilst we where doing the tourist thing in Alice Springs.

Tony

I purchased a tyredog 4 sensor system for our Simpson / Hay River trip this year. Cost was ~$180 from Ebay out of Taiwan. I permanantly removed the locking rings on the sensors the first time we aired up/down.
On the bad corrugations between Dalhousie and Purni bore all my mags were scored by the sensor bouncing around on the rubber valve stem and one of the retainers on the battery holder broke. Easily fixed with some gaffa tape on the valve stems to restrain them but it would have been nice to have taped them before the corrugations. Oddly enough not a problem on a cruiser where the sensor couldnt hit the rim due to the design of the wheel :(

I don't bother putting the sensors on around town which solves the issue of them being stolen and apart from no backlight I ran the head unit on one set of batteries for the whole trip to save having another power cord going to the dash.

The unit did alert me to a staked tyre and has probably paid for itself on this one occasion alone as we stopped and plugged the tyre after it had lost about 10 PSI.

Regards,
Tote

I replaced my tyre valves with solids after a few chips in the rim...

Working just fine...

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Originally Posted by Tombie

I replaced my tyre valves with solids after a few chips in the rim...

Working just fine...

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Solid tyre Valves - can you please explain?

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Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

Solid tyre Valves - can you please explain?

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Solid tyre valves are all steel valve bodies, much used in motorsport, as seen in the second and third pic. These are the short ones, there are long ones as well.

Jeff

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