Hi , my buddy is going to move his shop over the next year , about 75 miles away from the present shop.
there are about 50-75 cars he will need to move over a years time , probably on the weekends.
He has a few trailers , one flat utility trailer and 2 box trailers , and a few tow vehicles , a 20 ft box truck , pretty new Full size Ford truck and an old ramp truck ,
So how do you add TPMS sensors that will work with any combo of trailer / tow vehicle
How do Fleets do it ?
Thanks for your ideas
Back in 2017 I bought a kit with sensors that mount on the tire stem. Ten sensors for the MH and trailer.
never did get them communicating, so not sure how well the system worked, but it would have been portable enough.
Might be a more modern version, today?
We have a couple of sets of those tire stem mounted TPMS setups. The receiver plugs into the lighter socket. I used it on my last trip to CA and back. This was a Dodge 2500 and a 28' trailer. The socket is fairly low in the dash, down near the transmission tunnel.
The good: it alerted me to a slow leak, ~5 psi/hour. I spotted the problem and was monitoring it ("yup, looks like I can make it to SLC") when it triggered an alarm. Good info. Swapped in the spare and transferred the valve cap.
The bad: That spare exploded a few hours later as I was going through Elko. Like shrapnel all over the interstate and the whole rig jumped a little exploded. The tire pressure never updated. That particular sensor (the furthest one from the receiver) was not consistent in reading. I then dropped the trailer so I could go get a new tire mounted, and the receiver didn't seem terribly concerned about the fact that no sensors were registering. On the way home, one of the sensors (that same wheel) didn't update in the morning, so it was showing the previous night's (hot) tire temps when I started out.
So, no false positives. But the system definitely had a problem with false negatives. It gave me good warning when something was going wrong, but it also failed to detect other problems. It would be easy to transfer from one vehicle to another, which is exactly why we use it.
The idea is to have sensors on each trailer ,
The problem is whats pulling that trailer that weekend and how to match the truck to the trailer sensors ,
Can you Zero out the sensors and then have them reconnect to the trailer each time ?
There will be times when all 3 trailers are in the same yard and I assume they transmit all the time.
We have two trailers. You just stick the receiver for the appropriate trailer in your truck.
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