Tyre Pilot v Tyre Pal
I've been thinking about fitting a tyre pressure monitoring system and it looks as if it's between the Snooper Tyre Pilot system or the Tyre Pal one. The Snooper system is a little bit cheaper but gets poor reviews on Amazon whilst the Tyre Pal system
gets 5 five star ratings. Both samples are relatively small.
On paper this appears to be a no-brainer, but wondered if anyone had any experience of either system?
Thanks in advance.
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My Bailey came with Tyre Pal TPMS fitted and all I had to do was buy the monitor for £99. I think it's a good, reliable system, giving a constant readout of both pressure and temperature on all 4 caravan tyres. The monitor is easy to read and has a good battery life. No need to have a wire trailing across the dashboard to a plug when in use. I just plug it into a socket in the cubby box in my car and leave it there to charge up in between caravan trips.
Last year. I was unfortunate / stupid enough to clip a gritstone kerb at Hawes CC site and it ripped through the sidewall of the tyre. Instant deflation and a deafening alarm from the monitor - so it does work - but more to the point, it allows constant monitoring of temp and pressure so that you can forsee a problem developing. Having used it for over a year now, I wouldn't be without it.
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Just purchased a Tyre Pal and fitted today. Paid for next day delivery and they arrived by before 1pm Royal Mail Special Delivery, direct from TP. There is a code in CC offers that gets you £20 off, so works out cheaper than through Amazon. Set up the 4
sensors on the car, very straight forward and easy to follow instructions. Then drove across to the caravan storage to set those up and check they worked OK. Only the drive to storage with car only sensors but worked fine, with temps and pressures increasing
slightly. To test the system you just unscrew one of the sensors. Did this and the unit alarmed with a loud audible warning and red light and the offending wheel flashing on the display. Clearly early days but pleased so far.0 -
I have the Tyre-Pal TB99 system deployed looking at the tow vehicles rear wheels and the single axle caravan wheels.
It is not trouble free with signal drop outs, very predominantly but not exclusively with one channel.
However, it works initially on most journeys so I know the tyres are up to pressure without doing the physical check I used to do. Then on a journey we would lose contact but several miles later regain it for another twenty odd miles before losing it again.
I am still completely sold on the concept of monitoring caravan tyres just disappointed the kit is not in my application as consistent as I would like.
I concede I am not using it as intended, and towards the limit of its range, but both these aspects were inquired about and checked before purchase. A relay might help but as the sensor on the worse offending channel is not the one working at the longest
range I am reticent to invest further in hope that corrects things.I went though doing a reasignment process as Tyre-Pal suggested, but that has made no difference.
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Ocsid - it sounds to me as if there is a problem with the system somewhere - either with the monitor or sender units. I am towing a TA van behind a VW Touareg - so in terms of range, I would have thought that's getting about as extreme as you could get.(Perhaps
a Disco or similar might be slightly longer). The only problem I have ever had is if I forget to switch the monitor on before I move off. When that happens, it takes longer than usual for the signal to be picked up and sometimes it is necessary to slow down
before contact is established. On all other occasions, however, it's absolutely fine and the signal never drops out as you describe.0 -
Ocsid - it sounds to me as if there is a problem with the system somewhere - either with the monitor or sender units. I am towing a TA van behind a VW Touareg - so in terms of range, I would have thought that's getting about as extreme as you could get.(Perhaps a Disco or similar might be slightly longer). The only problem I have ever had is if I forget to switch the monitor on before I move off. When that happens, it takes longer than usual for the signal to be picked up and sometimes it is necessary to slow down before contact is established. On all other occasions, however, it's absolutely fine and the signal never drops out as you describe.
Thanks. I think one sensor simply has a weak output. If put on the front off side tow vehicle wheel, a metre and a half at the most from the monitor it is faultless. Put on the van's off side it plays up. Put a bit further away on the van's near side it is not prefect but is more reliable. Could be punching through my body is here part of the issue? I have yet to try seeing if the other two senors now on the tow vehicle perform any better if reallocated to the caravan. I will have to play with doing that before spending more money on a repeater or gamble on getting a different hopefully better performing sensor.
Application is a Disco 3 with very long "A" frame, 8 M LOA single axle German van, so we are pushing our luck range wise.
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