The first TPMS I tried was horrible! It was from a company called BellaCorp and it was nothing but trouble and a hassle from day one. I think I paid around $300 for it and regretted it the whole time. Stay far away from this one. I almost threw it out the window driving through CO on a trip... I didn't, but when I got back from that trip, I ordered a new one and gave the BellaCorp one away - with a warning to go ahead and just replace it with one that actually works! I was between the TST and the Tire Minder and went with the Tire Minder. Now, about 4 years later, all I can say about it is that it just works, and I have been very happy with it. Programing it is easy, it easily shows all 4 (and up to 10 I believe...) tires on one screen, and with the press of a button I can easily toggle between pressure or temperature. The only time it has not worked is when I didn't change out the battery and it died about 30 minutes into a trip... that was on me. This thing has been 100% trouble free, and that says a lot! Battery replacement is also easy (I have the caps) and Tire Minder will even send you 4 new batteries for nothing but the cost of shipping.

And yes, the Tire Minder does come with a repeater/booster. I simply connected into the 12V at the junction box at the front of the trailer, zip tied it under the tool box mounted up front, and I haven't messed with it since. My camper is only 26 feet long (tongue to bumper), and from the monitor to the furthest tire is probably only around 40 feet, however, the booster is almost right in the center of this, and I have never experienced a dropped or no connection with it. From the time I turn it on until I turn it off, it just works. As well, Tire Minder states that it updates the data every 6 seconds, so it should even work with slow leaks. Thankfully, I have never had to deal with a tire issue, but I will never run my camper without a good TPMS set up, and I can without hesitation, highly recommend the Tire Minder i10.

And no, a TPMS is not reason to slouch on routine tire maintenance or upkeep. Instead, a TPMS is a vital part of this system in that it is the one thing that can monitor the status of the tires when you can't... while you're driving down the road.

Anyway, I installed a BuiltRight mount in my center dash tray and use RAM mounts that hold this monitor. I used to also keep a GPS alongside it, but that thing is old so I don't use it any longer. I only put it up when I am towing, the rest of the time it lives in my glove box and the internal battery still holds up to more than a days use easy. I think I plugged it in twice on a recent 7 day trip from FL to CA.


An old picture from when I first installed the BuiltRight dash mount. Tire Minder on the left, old Garmin GPS on the right.

 

Had a little tent camper years ago. So dang small you couldn't see it out the mirror over the tailgate. Litterally couldn't tell it was behind a 99 f250. Tire shredded, don't know if it went flat first, took out a wheel well, inside cabinet, and destroyed the floor just inside the door. Less than a couple hundred in parts to fix, but time is also valuable.

 

Another great thing to have is a dash cam next to the TPMS

Bacon Saver.

Some Jackass made a u-turn while he was parked on the side of the road, and I had my snowmobile trailer with me. Was it my fault? The dash cam says no, it wasn’t! You should get one; they are really affordable! Look for one that allows you to add a memory card and can record for about two weeks. Just set it up and don’t worry about it until you need it.

 

But if it was your fault, then the answer would be 'Huh........the memory must of been corrupted....weird'.

 

Agree with the dash cam! Mine is a Blackvue and is mounted behind the rear view mirror. From the driver seat you can't even see it!

 

Trailer TPMS is important for me. I don't want a catastrophic tire failure taking out part of my trailer. The dashcam is CYA to prove that an accident wasn't my fault. There's lots of dishonest people out there that think they're excellent drivers.

The Ford trailer TPMS gave me an indication that one tire was having an issue (10 PSI higher than all the rest) so I stopped as soon as I could and swapped it out. Pretty sure it was going to fail soon. In another situation, I had to replace two tires (at the same time) during a trip. The observed PSI didn't provide any clue that the tires were having issues. It was how the rig felt that clued me in. There was a new vibration that didn't go away when I changed lanes. One tire had delaminated and the other had large chunks missing.

 

I use a Tire Minder I-10. Have for a lot of years. Many other systems cycle through the tires one at a time on a display and some even don’t display the actual pressure or temperature until you roll down the road some random distance. What a waste of time watching that slow-scroll. The Tire Minder displays all your tire pressures (or temperatures) at once after few minutes after being turn on.

geesh….. I sound like an advertisement. Anyway - it works great for me.

 

Definitely!

Better than monitoring the hard way and/or reacting too late.

 

I considered one after blowing a tire but didn't. I then lost an entire tire/wheel/drum/hub, and all after a bearing meltdown resulting in a 70MPH departure of tire assy. Never saw it happen, never knew it did until we got to campground. Obviously I never found it. Now I sport a TST, and PSI and TEMP are both important not only for tire health but bearings as well. It's cool because it can report up to 105 tires (fact) so when I need to pull the aircraft carrier out for a splash she's up to the job!

 

I've always questioned the Temp readings on my TST as I use the screw on caps so feel all it's really able to read is the valve stem temp..... I could be wrong.

Love my TST. I have the older monitor and it's a pain in the *** to see in bright light so I spent the 200.00 to upgrade to the 770 monitor and found it to be just too big and they got rid of the feature I was looking forward too (altitude). So I treed it and sent it back. I just put the older monitor in a small cubby in my dash where the light does not hit it. In reality you could just turn it on and put it in the glove box, you'll hear the alert when it sounds (Mine has triggered twice).

 

I use the TST 507 system. Agree about the monitor is hard to see in bright light. I even bought the shade for it, but that didn't help much.

The system saved me from a problem on a trip out west. Coming back the system warned me about a low tire. I pumped it up using my pancake compressor running off of my truck inverter at a rest stop. For the next several campgrounds, I would top off the pressure before leaving, and watched the pressure while traveling. When I got home, I took it to my tire shop, and there was a screw in that tire. Without the system, and maybe not seeing the low tire, that probable saved me from a “blowout” on the road.

I also question the accuracy of the temperature reading on this system.

Like chadstickpoindexter, I use a Built Right dash adapter with RAM mounts for my stuff. Some people say I am a gear junkie.

 

Dear god i would wreck within 10min with all that on my dash. When do you have time to look at the road after doing a guage scan

I don't even like seeing my small dash cam behind the rear view mirror.

 

I occasionally glance at the road to make sure everything is OK.

 

I have the factory OEM sensors. Work great and saved us 1 time so far when the left rear went down on the interstate. Alarm went off when I was going 65. By the time we got stopped, it was down to 10 psi and flat by the time I got out to look at it. Only thing is, it doesn't diplay tire temp. I need to look into that.

 

Weird. My 2022 truck tires only show pressure, but the OEM trailer sensors display pressure and temp. Thank goodness they do, because one of my trailers tires just got up to 150 F with normal pressure. Temp gun confirmed it was correct, hot on the tread only, sidewalls were normal. I'm not positive what happened but I'm leaning towards belt failure. We're traveling, couldn't find a quickly available Goodyear, so went ahead and replaced it with a Discount Tire "Hartland". I'll turn that into my spare when I get back home and probably buy four new Goodyears. I was going to replace them next spring anyway based on age, but realized I should have done it this spring because they're now 5-1/2 years old based on the code. But to your point, having temp readings is a good thing!