Thread: D4 Tyre Pressure Sensors?

I highly recommend Tyredog having done minimum 10,000kms serious off road driving with them and twice (only a week ago) them warning me of blown GGAT2's on the Dalhousie Springs road.

mix reviews.... hmmmm

Dorko

Not sure the reviews are that closely mixed so far..6 punters have no issues, 1 had 2 sensors fail.
I've also got a system installed on my motorbike which has been issue free so far as well. I can now monitor the slow leak I know I have on the front easily and add a few PSI every couple of weeks.

The things I really liked about the car system - TD2000 in my case was
- it caters for more than 4 wheels. You can setup a trailer and the spare tyres if you wish.
- has replaceable batteries
- locking mechanism (would probably take these off when I expect to air up and down a few times a day on a offroad trip)
- can leave the unit on in the car, it powers down after 15 minutes and wakes up on any movement
- sensors should be easy to replace if they fail or get lost
- easily tranferable between vehicles if needed

I've been looking at these for a bit before reading this post, i came accross the tyredogs on the "electronic-bay" (i'm an addict) and then came accross a (possibly better looking) system made or sold by a mob called Orange. looks like the sensors have to be fitted to the rim from the inside.
this would mean you'd have to take it to your tyre shop and get them to take all your tyres off and fit the valve/sensors. - ?

the system looks and sounds real good, and all parts are supposedly replaceable if broken, valve, sensor seperate.

the display looks modern and small. but only caters for 4 sensors by the look of it.

but here's the really nice sounding thing - 7 year battery life!

anyone got this system? any comments?

http://www.orange-electronic.com/eng...duct/main.html

Not too fussed about battery life - they only cost $4 and mine lasted well over 12 months. I did have an issue with my Tyre Dog - I lost a sensor (my fault) and as mine was an early model (TD1000A) I had to send the whole unit back to them to have them reset it and "link in" a new sensor; this is only an issue on early models - later models you can do yourself.

Thanks everybody for your comments. I still haven't made my mind up. While I would like tyre sensors for the D4 and caravan (eight sensors in all) I'm still wrestling with my caravan reversing camera screen and nav system dilemma. Once I work out what how much I am going to have to shell out for the Nav'Screen combo I can deal with the tyre sensors.

Cheers

George

I looked at inside vs outside systems as well. Inner rim systems have the advantage of not getting lost or stolen but as gmeddy said, you need to remove tyres to fit or maintain sensors. On motorbikes there were quite a few reports of sensors being damaged by fitters. Bike tyres also get changed a lot more frequently though. Anywhere from 5k to max 25k.

I've only used the tyredog system so can't compare in real life against other systems. As long as it saves you a tyre or accident, any system is a good one!