Hi, just bought a great piece of kit, it monitors your tyres and tells you if your tyres are losing pressure so you can stop and check things out. Just type in 'TYREPAL' on your search engine, if you contact them tell them Arthur put you on to them, fellas name is John.
you might consider it too much, but just think of the piece of mind it gives you, the idea is that it pre-warns you if you are losing pressure or your tyre is overheating which normally indicates you have a puncture, your next indication is when your tyre disintegrates and causes all sorts of problems, believe me you will wish you had fitted this piece of kit, my van cost me a lot of money and as an ex tyre man i've seen the damage a disintegrating tyre can do to body work, so for me £195 is money well spent.
Well ok if you got money to waste thats no problem, but i have had camper vans and motorhomes since 1974 and been all round Europe and in all these years only once i have had a problem and was caused by Michelin tyres that at the time had produced a very bad batch of tyres ie, the walls used to blow up like little ballons all around them, and they were replaced under warranty and if i recall there was a recall on all those tyres. By all means yours is a good gadget but if you inspect the tyres as you should then you will have nothing to worry about, ok the chances that you can have a puncture are always there but these vehicles are not meant to get on the motorway and do 80/90 miles an hour, that is way they are called LEISURE VEHICLES.
You have just reminded me to sort out a new tyre gauge for myself. In July before setting off to France, went to check caravan tyre pressure (62psi) with my trusty pen type car gauge - big shock it only went up to about 50psi !!! like you I want a replacement for £10
I am amazed, but when I bought my Toyota Grand Hiace. 3.4 with overdrive no one warned me that it was not meant to be driven on Motorways because it is a 'LEISURE VEHICLE', I must write to Toyota and warn them about this,you learn something new every day. Can you also tell me how you can test your tyre pressures with your £10 guage when you are bowling happily along at 35mph ( having avoided those nasty motorways ). If you are afraid to recognise new technology and use it, then that's your choice and if I want to 'Waste' £195 then that's my choice.
thinking of getting myself artc. have twin wheels on rear axle of van, and therefore with 6 wheels, would be even more expensive. However, I have to remove a central 'hub'cap' with an allen key, and before I had extensions fitted, would have had to remove the one wheel, to test the pressure on the innermost wheel.....try doing that before every journey.
Had Ultraseal put in tyres of previous van, which only had 4 wheels, and also 'rated' pressure caps, so could see at a glance if they were still on 'green' or were losing air.......they never did lose any air!
Had a form of Ultraseal put in the tyres on this different van, for a degreee of peace of mind, though know full well, punctures or issues with sidewalls are not solved.
However..............will the tyrepal thingee work with 'Ultrseal', think maybe not?
Also they don't work with extensions, as have to be within the peramater of the tyre, so would have to abandon extensions, meaning the outer wheel would have to come off to pump up the inner wheel tyre.
.......................brain overload.............don't know the answer
As far as i know they do operate on extentions as they screw directly on to valve top as each sensor is dedicated to a particular wheel, are you aware that once you put any sort of sealent into your tyre that the tyre is unrepairable as tyre depots won't touch them as it's impossible to clean out the sealent.
Its a case of where to stop when it comes to gizmos. Im sure a shredding tyre can do some damage. But you have to weigh it against the probability of it happening. Modern tyres are less inclined to puncture or shred nowadays. You only have to witness the lack of folk with flats, or bits of tyre on the roads and motorways nowadays, to know how rare the occurences are, given the number of vehicles and tyres on the highways.
On the one hand £195 doesnt sound a lot to save you from 'disaster', but im guessing there are no guarantees of this anyway. After weighing up the odds, id opt to keep the money in my pocket, personally.
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