aftermarket tire montoriong system?

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i have several 60s muscle cars that go on a ciuple road trips each summer. is there a montoring system that works and can moved car to car?
 
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That style of system has a lot of faith in the seal of what's effectively a heavy valve cap. In other words it can cause more problems than it solves.
 
Either you have a sensor reading pressure inside the tire or outside. The only other system measures the difference in wheel speeds caused by the change in diameter of a tire with low pressure, but that would require wheel speed sensors like on ABS systems and still won't tell you actual PSI.
 
You want this. Used on travel trailers, I used it this past year and it works as advertised. Good rep in the RV world and $199 is a good price. The sensors replace the valve caps. The monitor is nothing fancy and it included a transmitter to extend the range you wouldn't need for a car. You would just move the caps to different cars putting them on the same location. You get pressure and temperature and can program high/low warning points.

https://www.tiretraker.com/proddetail.php?prod=TT600-4
 
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You want this. Used on travel trailers, I used it this past year and it works as advertised. Good rep in the RV world and $199 is a good price. The sensors replace the valve caps. The monitor is nothing fancy and it included a transmitter to extend the range you wouldn't need for a car. You would just move the caps to different cars putting them on the same location. You get pressure and temperature and can program high/low warning points.

https://www.tiretraker.com/proddetail.php?prod=TT600-4
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My friend has this has this and uses it on 2 different trailers. He marked the caps LF, LR, RF, RR so he knows if it pops up on screen. Caps aren't too big. It has saved him issues when he caught a nail on a trip.

There was one story that the guy bought a setup like that after he had an issue. He felt a "thump" but didn't notice anything until the second tire went flat and he saw sparks. The first thump was him loosing a tire due to sheared studs. The readout would have flagged a lost sensor.
 
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My friend has this has this and uses it on 2 different trailers. He marked the caps LF, LR, RF, RR so he knows if it pops up on screen. Caps aren't too big. It has saved him issues when he caught a nail on a trip.

There was one story that the guy bought a setup like that after he had an issue. He felt a "thump" but didn't notice anything until the second tire went flat and he saw sparks. The first thump was him loosing a tire due to sheared studs. The readout would have flagged a lost sensor.
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I marked the sensors as well. If you leave then on the valves the sensors are active and the batteries run down faster. Having a tire go down on a trailer can be a big disaster, you really can't feel it while driving and the first clue is when the tire finally shreds and tears up the side of the trailer and underneath.
 
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