Tyredog TPMS

[OldGreyFart Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close OldGreyFart]

Have installed a Tyredog tyre pressure monitoring system. Works well.

However find it readings a bit disconcerting. Following discussion I tyre pressures decided that I would use 36psi around town. Went to local garage and set pressure. TPMS however - without driving anywhere - shows 2 tyres at 36psi 1 at 38 and 1 at 33.

Is this a Tyredog monitoring problem or the pump I used?

[Trevc Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Trevc]

Terry
Get yourself a tyre gauge and test with that. You'll still need one as a back-up for the TPMS anyway so buy a decent one.
Trev

[D4D Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close D4D]

Welcome to the world of too much information and being OCD about getting all the pressures matching. Don't worry it will wear off after a week or so.

[mjrandom Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close mjrandom]

OGF use the Tyredogs as a guide only. Get a decent tyre pressure gauge and use that whether you fill up at a service station or your own compressor. Learn the variation that your Tyredogs display.

[OldGreyFart Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close OldGreyFart]

Thanks - I have two very good tyre gauges - just haven't used them yet.

Will check them out.

[FC_Holden Member Find all posts View Profile Close FC_Holden]

Tyredog problem as sensors are not accurate enough, they seem to provide more of a guide as to when something is changing

[vk2ss55 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vk2ss55]

Hey Oldgreyfart do you have the internal sensors or external ?
Cheers Ross

[RanJ Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close RanJ]

Welcome to the world of too much information and being OCD about getting all the pressures matching. Don't worry it will wear off after a week or so.

Amen to that brother.

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

Hey Oldgreyfart do you have the internal sensors or external ?
Cheers Ross

Tyre dogs have the external sensors. Mine are fairly accurate but I really only use them as a guide, I still use a gauge to check pressures.

The one thing you will learn is just how much tyre pressures can vary depending on ambient temperature and heat from driving, it's a lot more than most people might suspect.

Cheers Andrew

[D4D Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close D4D]

You they're a guide only as they have a +/- 0.5 PSI accuracy.

[Guest Close Guest]

Mine's pretty accurate to ±0.5psi on both sets that I have.

[OldGreyFart Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close OldGreyFart]

External.

Hey Oldgreyfart do you have the internal sensors or external ?
Cheers Ross

[vk2ss55 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close vk2ss55]

Tyre monitor would've stopped me ruining a Cooper AT3 recently due to low pressure I suspect . A guy on the trip had the ext sensor type and I reckon it's a bloody hassle having to undo the tiny allen screw to take the sensor off when a pressure change is required . I'd only go with the internal sensor .
Cheers Ross

[mjrandom Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close mjrandom]

Unless you don't do the tamper proof thing in which case they just unscrew like a normal valve cap. I have both systems on different vehicles and they both have advantages and disadvantages. The external sensors work fine for my purposes.

[craigm Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close craigm]

I'm presently not using the tamper proof locks and as mjr stated, they just unscrew like a normal valve. I guess you could install the tamper proof locks for day to day driving and then remove them prior to going off road for quicker inflation/deflation times.