TymateRV Tire Pressure Monitoring System - M7-3 TPMS Tire Pressure Monitor System(0-87 PSI) with Solar Charger, RV TPMS with 4 sensors & 5 Alarm Modes, LCD Display, Auto Sleep Mode, Easy to Install

I have a 30+ year old "fun" vehicle which was made before tire pressure monitoring was an option from the factory. Driving it infrequently, it's important that it's ready to roll when I want to take it out for fun. These sensors were easy to install and they transmit the pressure and temperature of each tire. The solar power seems to be sufficient, but I plug it in from time to time to keep it charged. Curious to see how long the batteries in the sensors last.I wish the sensors were a bit smaller. They're quite large on the end of the valve stems and look a little awkward.

Expensive and low speed when switching ON the instrument to identify the four sensors.

Very easy to set up and been working really well.

I bought this for my travel trailer last year. It worked great to give me the peace of mind in monitoring my tires' pressure and temperatures when I'm driving for hours on end. They were easy to install and the screen is intuitive. The sticky pad for putting it on your dash is washable when it starts to lose its stick. The solar is nice because I've never had to charge it when it's in my truck.The best part of my experience is the customer support. The monitor took a little tumble and stopped working. Wouldn't turn back on with either solar or wired charging. I contacted Tymate and they responded via email very quickly, offering some troubleshooting options. When the troubleshooting didn't work, they had me send it in and replaced the product with a brand new one.

I bought this to use on my single axle small trailer. Reading about trailer tires, I have learned that proper pressure is even more critical than with car tires. They are also more prone to rapid pressure loss / blowouts. A TPMS can at least provide some margin of safety against those problems. Internal systems are expensive to buy and then must be mounted inside the tires, another expense. The external system addresses both issues. Within the constraints of an external system, this product works well. I give it 4 stars, knocking one star off for being a little inaccurate and some other quirks. Overall, it's a good system and at this price, I will keep it.ProsVery easy to install and use. You take off the dust cap and mount a sensor in its place with a dust cover and locking nut behind it.The monitor is a nice size, large enough to read but small enough to just sit on the side of my dashboard.It is solar powered so no batteries and no necessity to hook up to a power though a cord and plug are provided if you choose to do so.ConsNot perfect accuracy but to be fair, probably within the specs provided. I checked each tire with a known gauge. Two sensors are about 2 pounds low while a third was pretty much spot on. I used the third one on the spare tire and am not using the fourth.To preserve battery life in each sensor, they are motion activated and then only transmit if there is a change in pressure (and I think temperature). That makes sense. However, that also means that you cannot check the cold tire pressure before heading out. I'm told with trailer tires this is important to do. The only way to check the pressure is to unscrew and remove the sensor, check the pressure, and then remount the sensor. You lose a little air as you take it off and then again when you remount it. The instructions say you really should check with soapy water when you install a sensor to make sure you don't have a leak. You are also supposed to loosen and then re-tighten the locking nut behind the sensor. Note this is not a fault of this system as I assume this is the case with all of these externally mounted monitoring systems. I wish there was an override button on the sensor to manually get it to send a reading. That would make it easy to check pressure while still retaining the protocols to enhance sensor battery life.The motion activation and only sending a signal for significant changes also seems to lead to unpredictable first reads. On my initial trip that was on a smooth interstate, I got the first tire reading after about 10 minutes but the second tire reading didn't show up for nearly an hour. The reading for the spare was closer to 90 minutes after I left. If I knew the pressure was correct when I left, i suppose that would be ok, but as noted above, you don't know that unless you take off the monitors and check with a gauge. In my view, the system should be set up to send an initial reading at motion activation. That would also let you know that system was in fact working. This system does not do that.I camped in Colorado at a high altitude (8,600') with cold nights. When I left in the morning after a few days, I assumed the pressure was lower. I didn't bother to check since I had no way to add air anyway. In this case, all three tires reported right away as I drove out the dirt road within the campground.I've read that there may be external sensors with pass through channel that allow pressure checking and adding air. That might be an option to consider.Conclusion is that while not perfect, this system does give me some peace of mind that i will notice if a tire is rapidly losing air. For $60, that's well worth it. I'll continue to look at other systems for future consideration.