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To: Twotone

Active TPMS stinks.

You have a transmitter with a battery that’s typically part of the valve stem. Every so often you have to have the tire shop replace the batteries, if not the whole TMPS transmitters, at considerable expense, as it involves removing and remounting the tires.

You can do effective tire pressure monitoring with just the sensing used for anti-lock brakes. The car’s computer(s) monitor tire rotation, and if one gets low, its rotations can be determined to be out of whack and BAM!, you get a warning. No stupid active transmitter and battery involved. Don’t care that it doesn’t tell you the pressure, that’s what a good tire gauge is for.


18 posted on 10/25/2025 7:39:16 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

See my post 10.

Anybody that can’t keep up with the pressure in their tires might not ought to be driving in the first place.


20 posted on 10/25/2025 7:47:34 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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