Please
note that this post is not sponsored in any way. I’m not affiliated with, recommending or
receiving payment from Truck System Technologies or any other companies that
manufacture Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems.
I simply wanted to share our experience, just in case any of you are
interested.
Alan and I log a LOT of road trip miles. Our first travel trailer had over 40,000
miles on it when it “retired.” Our
current travel trailer is closing in on 15,000 already. Earlier this year, Alan and I decided to
invest in a Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) so that we could monitor the
temperature and pressure of our travel trailer tires while we were on the road. Our reasoning and my very non-technical
research can be found in my post from February called “The Least Technical Post You’ll Ever Read About Tire Pressure
Monitoring Systems” (link HERE). We
decided against a flow through system and chose a cap sensor system instead. Our purchase was the 507 Series 4 Cap Sensor
system from a company called Truck System Technologies (TST). At the time we bought it, we still had snow
on the ground and limited access to the tires of our travel trailer. Alan ended up installing the system shortly
before our trip to the Florida Keys in May – a trip that provided a test of
more than 4,000 miles for the new system.
If you’re interested in our experience setting it up and a report based
on our road trip experience, read on. If
the thought of slogging through a post on a TPMS bores you to tears then, by
all means, please go read a post on another one of your favorite blogs – but please
be sure to come back another day! (We’ll
all miss you if you don’t!)
