RV AND MOTORCYCLE SYSTEMS
The PressurePro motorcycle tire pressure monitor (TPM) has proven to me to be a clear winner and clearly the “Best of Breed” solution amongst many. We travel all over the country on our Honda Gold Wing touring motorcycle. While I am extremely safety conscious and like to monitor tire pressures every morning before we start out, it is not always easy to lie down in a gravel parking lot, etc in order to access the valve stems. For this reason, I have wanted a TPM system for years, but have been put off by the lack of appropriate sized systems coupled with the large number of bad reviews posted on various web sites from dissatisfied motorcycle TPM users.
I have used Pressure Pro TPM systems on my truck and RV (12 tires in all) for almost three years and have been entirely and highly satisfied with their performance. I have had zero problems with the systems and have been very impressed that I never have issues reading the wireless sensors, which on my tri-axle RV are almost 40 feet away from the dashboard receiver. On two occasions, the system has given me immediate alerts when a tire has lost air, saving us from possibly dangerous accidents with 30,000 pounds of vehicle out of control at highway speeds!
I’m a stickler for accurate tire pressure levels both for fuel economy and safety. I thus had a very expensive and accurate digital pressure gauge to check the tires. When I discovered that every single PressurePro sensor’s reading exactly matched my expensive gauge, I stored it away and have seldom used it since. After three years of use, all sensors are still accurate and still operating on the original batteries.
It was thus with excitement, when I learned that PressurePro announced a TPM system for motorcycles, that I ordered one.
It has performed as well as my other systems, and I am very pleased with the results, especially after reading so many complaints about other systems that are not accurate, or that take 20-30 minutes before a sensor is read and its results displayed on the monitor.
The PressurePro sensors read every time, and like my prior experiences with these sensors, are extremely accurate (I’d guess to +/- 0.5 psi or better). To assure extended battery life the PressurePro sensors check pressure every 7 seconds but only transmit to the display monitor every 5 minutes (unless there is a problem to report in which case transmission is immediate). It could be up to 5 minutes from the time the system is turned on before a reading is obtained, but that is worse case scenario assuming you turned the monitor on just after a pressure sensor radioed its 5 minute cycled pressure data. Normally at least one sensor’s data shows up on the display monitor within a minute or so, with the other following soon thereafter. I’ve never had it take more than 5 minutes to obtain all readings when first powering up the unit, which is consistent with the sensor’s transmission schedule.
Bottom line. I’m a very happy camper with this system and would not hesitate to recommend it to others.
- Ken Burkhalter
