I always enjoy reviewing Mr Truck's website and noticed a product for wireless monitoring of tire air pressure. Wondered if anyone on this forum had purchased this system and how they like it.

http://www.mrtrailer.com/pressurepro.htm

Back in the spring, I made a 4 hr night trip with a 20 ft gooseneck trailer and 3 horses. Stopped after about 3 hrs for fuel and the fellow at the pump behind me asked "Did you know your missing a tire on the other side of the trailer?" The ditch side back tire was shredded....I never felt a thing, trailer pulled like a dream. I shudder to think what would have happened at 70 mph and the one remaining tire had decided to give it up.

While this product isn't cheap, it is a lot less than vet bills, medical bills, trailer repairs, or worse.

Rattler

rattler,

I haven't tried the product that you're referring too,but I can vouch for the fact that it's quick and easy to ruin a tire on a trailer, particularly one with rubber torsion axle. Had this happen twice with no knowledge of it whatsoever ti'll stopped! Did not shred them mind You, but ruined the sidewall none the less. You could have poked Your finger thru the sidewall it had wore so thin. Would love to have an economical product that would save this from happening again!

                                            ,Ardly

I always walk around the trailer and check everything when I stop but this happened at some point between leaving the barn and stopping 3 hrs later for fuel. Since it was a night trip, I never saw anything in the mirrors nor did the trailer pull any differently than normal.

While many are concerned about having enough truck to pull a trailer...it is good tires and brakes that will keep you out of trouble. One only needs to see a horse trailer after a wreck to recognize the fragility of hauling live animals around.

While this device wouldn't prevent or help in an outright blowout based on hitting something or picking up a nail, at least you would know at the time it happened. If the tire was a leaking down, it would allow you to stop and change it without possibly ruining a $100 tire. I never plug a tire on my rig, with the pressures they run under it is a blowout waiting to happen.

Well, I went and read all about this product.  I would love to own it.  In the past year I have had to buy 6 new Michelin tires for my truck due to flats and not having the foresight to buy from a store that offered a road hazard plan but rather from a tire salesman friend who gave me a really good deal.  Although none of the flats let me stranded or in an accident, I am very aware that they could have were I not so careful about checking my tires regularly.  I wish I had spent $600 on this system instead of over $1000 on tires.  Maybe next year.