Bow down to TPMS Sensors

[richnot]

Well I have to admit for the first time in my life my TPMS Sensors saved my butt.

Got in the truck to head out to a doctors appointment and the dash is lit up.

TPMS Panel showed that LR was at 15 psi. I check my tires once a week with a gauge so I knew something was up. I rolled it out of the garage, jacked up the tire and found the problem.

Long story short took wife’s Jeep to appointment then came home and took the off the wheel and had it patched from the inside and rebalanced and it was right on, no weights needed.

Remounted on truck and reading was at 36 psi. All is good !

looks like a mason nail to me.

I hared those sensors on my Jeep but I guess I’ll bow down and shut up now

 

[smurfslayer]

<knock wood> I’ve had to make 2 trips to the local dump and it’s an exercise in luck to avoid picking up nails. They’re everywhere. both times, once I was in I did a pre-walk on the way out to clean my path, found 3 nails on the way. Again, knock wood, TPMS showing steady.

The windshield did not fare as well, taking a huge hit on the passenger side, top. Sch’d for replacement tomorrow.

 

[The Car Stereo Company]

<knock wood>

quit hitting me in the head.....

 

[richnot]

Sorry to hear about the windshield, that would be a major upset. The last time I went to pick up my 18 Jeep JL for the steering issues, Service manager took it out for a test ride and ended up with a 3" rock coming through the windshield, literally! So it took 4 days to replace it and they destroyed the windshield gasket, scraped the paint off of both of the windshield hinges to bare metal and lastly drove the headlight switch through the dashboard with one of their knee caps. Service manager said everything was perfect. That was the last straw. I was done.......

 

[Aviator150]

Yup... Waaaaay back in 2010 with my Lariat 4x4 it saved me. I was literally pulling in for gas when it went off. Discount Tire was across the street.

 

[jimmyjamm]

I had a weird one too, I was doing field work on a remote site and driving out on a rough rock road with the bed loaded with ~800 lbs of rock & soil samples I drove thru a dip and it just felt funny, immediately clicked over to the real time TPMS screen and saw the right rear tire was already dropping a couple of psi...was a little more than an hour drive from a town and high tailed it as fast I felt comfortable, pulled into tire shop with 11 psi left on TPMPS screen. They were able to put it on a lift and swap the spare on, got the original patched the next day and switched it to be the permanent spare...ended up pushing a golf ball sized rock through the center of the OE KO2s (since truck was only about 1-year old, they only had ~12000 miles on them). I was glad to make it to town, as I don't think the stock jack would have worked to jack the rearend up with all the bed weight, and I would have had to unload it alone (onsite I had help from the equipment operators), change the tire and put it all back...and I needed to get home to take my son to baseball practice!

 

[SS308]

Well I have to admit for the first time in my life my TPMS Sensors saved my butt.

Got in the truck to head out to a doctors appointment and the dash is lit up.

TPMS Panel showed that LR was at 15 psi. I check my tires once a week with a gauge so I knew something was up. I rolled it out of the garage, jacked up the tire and found the problem.

Long story short took wife’s Jeep to appointment then came home and took the off the wheel and had it patched from the inside and rebalanced and it was right on, no weights needed.

Remounted on truck and reading was at 36 psi. All is good !

looks like a mason nail to me.

I hared those sensors on my Jeep but I guess I’ll bow down and shut up now

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I had an identical nail in my front driver side tire on Monday. Someone out there hates Raptor tires...

 

[Frank N]

I had a tpms light up doing 75 mph on the highway, Thinking it was probably BS but with my wife and one of my kids in the car I instantly went into the right right lane down to 50 mph as a precaution and I could soon feel a shimmy in the wife’s Honda. Quickly onto the shoulder watch the last of the air disappear from the left rear tire.