Tyrepal sale

[TonyG]

Hi
Tyrepal have a great offer on at the moment £165 unit reduced to £99 bargin, excellent product
http://www.tyrepal.co.uk/offers

 

[Surfer]

Hi
Tyrepal have a great offer on at the moment £165 unit reduced to £99 bargin, excellent product
http://www.tyrepal.co.uk/offers

Surely if you check your pressures before each journey, there would be no need to spend £100 on a facny gadget that tells you the same? Can't really see a benefit at present unless you are lazy or forgetful. Almost like the £45 gadget to blow all water out of your system.

 

[Sproket]

Hi
Tyrepal have a great offer on at the moment £165 unit reduced to £99 bargin, excellent product
http://www.tyrepal.co.uk/offers

Surely if you check your pressures before each journey, there would be no need to spend £100 on a facny gadget that tells you the same? Can't really see a benefit at present unless you are lazy or forgetful. Almost like the £45 gadget to blow all water out of your system.

Here we go again the same old put down.......

Well i must have money to burn cos i bought one

And after just fitting it to the truck & monitoring the tyre pressure whilst driving on the motorway, you can see the pressure increase as the tyre gets warm, in fact in just over 6 miles it had gone up 2psi all round After 10 miles up another, & when i came off of the motorway as the tyres cooled the pressure dropped back down, ..........

After a friend of mine recently had a snake & wrote his disco & the caravan off after checking all of the tyre pressures before setting off, he was only about half an hour into there journey when the accident happened.......

So i recon it is worth my £99.00 for peace of mind.......
You can see in real time what is happening........
Is it getting too warm ???
Is it going down ???

When i want to use it on my van i will just re-calibrate two of the sensors to the van tyre pressure & use them on the van

Get a life & spend some money it might save you an insurance claim...........
Or even your life..........

 

[MichaelE]

Hi always look around my tyres before i set off, but never check pressures unless the tyre looks low, im sure others are the same.
I think this is ok and to be honest the earliest warning that you have a punture might save the tyre, this doesnt compare with the water drain now kit, now that i think why?

 

[DeliDave_]

Just ordered a set it cant do any harm and as sproket said it might save an accident one day

 

[Stephen1956]

My concern on these is the sensors which weigh 11grams about the same weight as a 17mm spanner size nut having one of those on the end of a valve may cause flex and to crack and break off at the base, because if some of you think manufacturers use cheap tyres I reckon they use cheap valves too I have had a van where valves have had to be changed on the first service due to cracking around the base.

 

[GrahamDerby]

If you are adding weight to one side of the wheel surley the wheel needs ballancing ?

 

[Gagakev]

Hi always look around my tyres before i set off, but never check pressures unless the tyre looks low, im sure others are the same.
I think this is ok and to be honest the earliest warning that you have a punture might save the tyre, this doesnt compare with the water drain now kit, now that i think why?

Hi Michael, think you seriously need to re-consider, most responsible caravanners check there tyre pressure's before the off. Certainly before leaving home on the journey to the site.
You should also read your towcar manual/handbook and check if there are different tyre pressure's for solo and towing, I know mine has.

 

[Surfer]

Hi
Tyrepal have a great offer on at the moment £165 unit reduced to £99 bargin, excellent product
http://www.tyrepal.co.uk/offers

Surely if you check your pressures before each journey, there would be no need to spend £100 on a facny gadget that tells you the same? Can't really see a benefit at present unless you are lazy or forgetful. Almost like the £45 gadget to blow all water out of your system.

Here we go again the same old put down.......

Well i must have money to burn cos i bought one

And after just fitting it to the truck & monitoring the tyre pressure whilst driving on the motorway, you can see the pressure increase as the tyre gets warm, in fact in just over 6 miles it had gone up 2psi all round After 10 miles up another, & when i came off of the motorway as the tyres cooled the pressure dropped back down, ..........

After a friend of mine recently had a snake & wrote his disco & the caravan off after checking all of the tyre pressures before setting off, he was only about half an hour into there journey when the accident happened.......

So i recon it is worth my £99.00 for peace of mind.......
You can see in real time what is happening........
Is it getting too warm ???
Is it going down ???

When i want to use it on my van i will just re-calibrate two of the sensors to the van tyre pressure & use them on the van

Get a life & spend some money it might save you an insurance claim...........
Or even your life..........

Please explain how the tyre monitor would have prevented the accident? Also not sure why you should be concerned about pressure increasing and decreasing. BTW I thought you were supposed to looking at the road while driving not the pressure monitor?

 

[GeorgeandAde]

I wouldnt imagine it would help in the event of an immediate blowout,but a slow puncture whilst towing would alert you to pull over and check the tyre before the pressure drops too much.
Adrian

 

[xtrailman]

Hi
Tyrepal have a great offer on at the moment £165 unit reduced to £99 bargin, excellent product
http://www.tyrepal.co.uk/offers

Surely if you check your pressures before each journey, there would be no need to spend £100 on a facny gadget that tells you the same? Can't really see a benefit at present unless you are lazy or forgetful. Almost like the £45 gadget to blow all water out of your system.

Here we go again the same old put down.......

Well i must have money to burn cos i bought one

And after just fitting it to the truck & monitoring the tyre pressure whilst driving on the motorway, you can see the pressure increase as the tyre gets warm, in fact in just over 6 miles it had gone up 2psi all round After 10 miles up another, & when i came off of the motorway as the tyres cooled the pressure dropped back down, ..........

After a friend of mine recently had a snake & wrote his disco & the caravan off after checking all of the tyre pressures before setting off, he was only about half an hour into there journey when the accident happened.......

So i recon it is worth my £99.00 for peace of mind.......
You can see in real time what is happening........
Is it getting too warm ???
Is it going down ???

When i want to use it on my van i will just re-calibrate two of the sensors to the van tyre pressure & use them on the van

Get a life & spend some money it might save you an insurance claim...........
Or even your life..........

Please explain how the tyre monitor would have prevented the accident? Also not sure why you should be concerned about pressure increasing and decreasing. BTW I thought you were supposed to looking at the road while driving not the pressure monitor?

I have only ever had one caravan puncture, a slow puncture.
These gadgets sound an alert if the pressures move outside set parameters, so you can concentrate on the road.
I would buy one today, but for the wheel balance issue.
My wheels required 130 grams on one wheel and 135g on the other, so for that reason only i haven't bought any.
I believe they are standard fit on cars with run flat tyres.

 

[DeliDave_]

On the makers site it says that they will stay within normal balance tolerance and as many caravan tyres arent balanced anyway I cant see it making it any worse.Could fit them and then have the wheels balanced to check,thats what I intend to do anyway.

 

[MichaelE]

So i presume that your comment "responsible caravanners" you as a responsible driver you always check your car tyre pressures on every trip?
Hands up who checks every trip?
I always check pressures when i go on a long journey, but when we are out 2-3 times a month for short journeys i just carry out a visual check.
Yes i have read my towcar manual and my car tyre pressures for my car are adjusted for towing but i dont change them for when i am solo.

 

[Sproket]

I have only ever had one caravan puncture, a slow puncture.
These gadgets sound an alert if the pressures move outside set parameters, so you can concentrate on the road.
I would buy one today, but for the wheel balance issue.
My wheels required 130 grams on one wheel and 135g on the other, so for that reason only i haven't bought any.
I believe they are standard fit on cars with run flat tyres.

Ray
My tyres on the truck are 245 -70 -16
I have just been to work & returned home, via normal roads & the motorway.
There are no balance issues with my wheels as they are all ready balanced.
( maybe it would have more of an effect on smaller wheels ? )

You will often here of people discussing tyre ‘blow-outs’. A tyre blow-out, to give it a definition, is the sudden and total deflation of a tyre due to the collapse of its structure. There is a tremendous amount of rubbish talked of when it comes to blowouts and it is something that is severely misunderstood amongst the motoring population. Blowouts do not just happen, they are caused and that cause 99.9% of the time is negligence coupled with a lack of awareness.
The air pressure within a tyre is put there to maintain the integrity of that tyre. That means it is there to maintain the shape and profile of the tyre, and therefore its structure. If you steadily reduce the pressure of a tyre you will reach a point, long before it is flat, where the tyre walls begin to bulge outward. The reason for this distortion is that there is insufficient air pressure within the tyre to maintain the integrity of its shape.
If that car is then driven with the soft tyre the bulging tyre wall, now less rigid due to lost pressure, will begin to distort even more and begin to ripple as it rotates. This rippling effect causes friction and, as you know, friction causes heat. All the time a car is being driven along the road with a tyre in this condition, that tyre is generating heat within itself and the level of heat will be rising all the time. Eventually there will come a point when the tyre will say to itself, “I’ve had just about enough of this!” and will suddenly let go with a bang. They have even been known to ignite!
The tyre monitor would have prevented the accident or the fire...........
A friend at work was telling me today about when he had his old van & travelling north on the A1 near to Leeming Bar, as he passed a hgv , the driver flashed him in, then a short while later started flashing him to get his attention, he looked at his inside mirror & smoke was coming from the caravan near side tyre, lucky escape ?
Oh yes, if that HGV had not seen what was happening, there may have been a different ending to this story.........

 

[xtrailman]

Cheers sproket,
unfortunately checking out the offer the max range is 60 psi, my caravan wheels take 62 psi, 64 if i up grade the MTPLM.

 

[Sproket]

Cheers sproket,
unfortunately checking out the offer the max range is 60 psi, my caravan wheels take 62 psi, 64 if i up grade the MTPLM.

Have a read at the bottom of this link .............
Then ask yourself what damage would have been caused ?

Keep an eye on the link there might be another sale as it gets near xmas / new year............

 

[xtrailman]

Cheers sproket,
unfortunately checking out the offer the max range is 60 psi, my caravan wheels take 62 psi, 64 if i up grade the MTPLM.

Have a read at the bottom of this link .............
Then ask yourself what damage would have been caused ?

Keep an eye on the link there might be another sale as it gets near xmas / new year............

Yes I've looked at that link, as you say wait for a deal to come up.

 

[graham_somersham]

I seem to remember some talk a while back about all cars requiring the remote sensors as part of type approval in the near future. I wonder if this will also apply to caravans