A couple months ago I got an Orange Electronic TPMS for my car hauler trailer. I got the tire pressure sensors installed in my trailer tires, but I've only towed a couple times on trips of 300 miles round trip. I've had the receiver unit just temporarily hanging down with it plugged into the 12v receptacle on the dash.

The end of this month I'll be towing to a track event about 700 miles each way, so today I finally mounted up the unit into the right side cubby under the 12v plug:




In the picture below you can see that it says "psi" and just has dashes. The sensors in the trailer's wheels are similar to the sensors in our trucks - when the vehicle is parked for about 15 minutes the sensors go into a sleep mode to save the batteries. When you drive faster than 15 or 20 mph for a minute or two the sensors wake up and transmit. Actually, when driving, the display alternates between tire pressure and the temperature in the wheel:




I was thinking of hard-wiring it in, but I really don't want it on when I'm not towing the trailer. For now I've run the cord back to the center console storage compartment so I can plug it into the 12v receptacle in there when I want it on. I may hard-wire it in later with a switch to turn it on/off.

I removed the cubby insert and the unit fits in there very well. I'm real pleased with how it fits in the cubby and looks pretty OE!!

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Love the way it fits.

 

Nice!!

 

Looks great! Great mod!!

Wayne

 

Did a short local tow today to drop my Vette off at the dealer. After being told by the local guys they wouldn't honor a warranty, I got ahold of my contacts at GM.

So, today I dropped off the car to get the work done under warranty - WOO HOO!!!

It's too bad that you have to know somebody to get work done under warranty.

I got to take a couple of pics of the trailer TPMS in action while towing about 20 miles to the dealer.

Below are two pics - one of the pressure, and one of the temp in the tires. The tire pressure sensors transmit both (just like the sensors in our truck wheels), and you can set the display to show one or the other, or set it to alternate about every 10 seconds between the two:







I'll be doing a long tow the end of the month (about 700 miles each way) and I'll probably leave it in the pressure mode, and occasionally push the bottom right button to check the temps.

I think it will be nice to know how the trailer tires are doing. If I get a slow leak I'll know it before I shred a tire. If the pressure goes way up due to one overheating for some reason I'll know it before it blows. I think it will give me a little peace of mind while towing.

The trailer weighs about 6200 lbs all loaded up when hauling the car to a track event.

Bob

 

Very nice. One of these days ...
But wait, what about your toad tires?
And I presume it can do Centigrade too?

 

Wow, nice setup! That beats the hell out of my TireMinder. Sometimes I wonder if the thing is even working, or just showing me what I want to see.

 

Sweet...very nice Mod...

 

Oh yeah - when I head north (waaaayyy north from Florida!) to the great white tundra, I can switch the pressure display to kPa or bar, and the temp to C.

As for the Toad tires, I have the exact same wheels/tires on the Toad as on the trailer so I have two spares.




I got the trailer TPMS before I got the Toad or I might have looked for a 6 tire system.

The Toad weighs 200 lbs, and with 675 lbs of tongue weight on it the tires aren't carrying anything near what the trailer tires are.

I've got 50 psi tire pressure valve caps on the Toad tires, so I'll just have to check them when I make pit stops:




Bob

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