Thread: Tyre Pressure Monitors

You can also buy the SensaTyre system from Landybitz (a member on this forum).

Internal sensors, and you can run up to 14 of them on the one display - should cover most towing requirements. Measures both pressure and temperature in each wheel, and allows you to enter your own upper and lower set-points for alarms.

Very easy to re-program wheel positions etc on the screen if you rotate wheels or simply replace a flat tyre with your spare.

I've been running this system for more than 2 years now and very happy with it.

Link to product page is ...................... Safety

Speaking of tyre pressures. I've just finished the run up the Savanna Way, terribly corrugated, and had the tyres at 28 38 for the dirt, but when I hit the bitumen again I didn't pump up just maintained the same temperature by adjusting the speed. The question is, what is too high a temperature for safe running. Mine were at 40deg.

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Originally Posted by ytt105

Speaking of tyre pressures. I've just finished the run up the Savanna Way, terribly corrugated, and had the tyres at 28 38 for the dirt, but when I hit the bitumen again I didn't pump up just maintained the same temperature by adjusting the speed. The question is, what is too high a temperature for safe running. Mine were at 40deg.

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Our haul trucks at work run around 70 deg all day everyday. Generally I wouldn't get too concerned with temps under 80

I think Tyre Dog will be what I'll buy ... as I have 6 GOE wheels and tyres, use the factory 19" around town, and have a trailer with spare tyres, internal ones seem too much of a hassle.

Are there wheel balance issues with valve stem based devices such as the Tyre Dog ones?

The tyre dog cap sensors only weigh 10-11grams so personally I would get the wheels balanced with the sensors fitted.


I wounder how fiddly the locking ring is if you were to use a tyre deflator often? (the ones that remove the valve stem) I suppose it could be left off if a lot of bush work was planned and put back on for the city.

Originally Posted by Mungus

The tyre dog cap sensors only weigh 10-11grams so personally I would get the wheels balanced with the sensors fitted.


I wounder how fiddly the locking ring is if you were to use a tyre deflator often? (the ones that remove the valve stem) I suppose it could be left off if a lot of bush work was planned and put back on for the city.

I'm not going to fit the locking ring.

I doubt they'll be pinched. I'm not sure whether I'll fit them to my city wheels / tyres. Although I three hours with my van to a country town, and we went for a drive to see the sites atop a hill (on bitumen, without the van). There was a track beyond the view area, and we went down it ... it was rutted, rocky, steep in places and was being used by some walkers. If I'd punctured a tyre I doubt I'd have known about it until too late ... compared to my Landcruiser Prado experience, that bad track felt like a smooth road in the D4 - it was amazingly stable and smooth. I turned on the off road rock feature three times otherwise I just had in in low range.

I just returned from a 7000km trip from Brissie to Uluru and back, via Plenty Highway and towing a Bushtracker van and we were very impressed with the TyreDog (8wheel) system. Worked perfectly and really appreciated the ability to keep an eye on rear tyre temps given the weight we were towing (3t plus). I saw 40 degrees a few times on right rear (fridge in back that side) but mostly temps were in high 20's. We had 285/50/20 Cooper LTZ's on the car and much better LT 16 inch on the van of course.

Originally Posted by CSBrisie

I just returned from a 7000km trip from Brissie to Uluru and back, via Plenty Highway and towing a Bushtracker van and we were very impressed with the TyreDog (8wheel) system. Worked perfectly and really appreciated the ability to keep an eye on rear tyre temps given the weight we were towing (3t plus). I saw 40 degrees a few times on right rear (fridge in back that side) but mostly temps were in high 20's. We had 285/50/20 Cooper LTZ's on the car and much better LT 16 inch on the van of course.

We are planning to go to Uluru late August. Just going to stay a week and then drive back to Melbourne, maybe dropping into the Flinders Ranges on the way back. Not sure where to go from Alice to Uluru etc! ??? Advice would be welcome!

With your Bushtracker, I presume you have four wheels on the trailer, while my Australian Off Road Matrix has just two wheels, yet weighs typically 2300kg. But that is over 1,100kg per tyre. So the temps etc would be very useful indeed on the trailer! On the forum for the AOR brand and talking to owners, tyre failures are very rare indeed but if they happen they can come more than once. I suspect the gauges might remove the issue.