Would like to know if anyone has any experience with the SmarTire tire pressure monitoring system?
Thanks,
Tom

 

It is on my wife's Sienna and works great. Recently she ran over a nail or something and had a slow leak. The SmarTire tire pressure light came on, she didn't know what it was, but told me about it, so I checked out the dash lights, saw the warning, checked the air in the tires, sure enough, one was low, so I filled it back up and took it to the tire shop next day and they patched the hole.

Once I got the van back, I rechecked all the tire pressures to get them where I wanted, reset the pressure monitoring system by pushing the little button, and now I don't have to worry about my wife having a slow leak tire stranding her because now she knows what that light means and what to do about it.



Brian

 

Got any links for how it works and where you can buy them?

 

Sometimes the 'net works like you think it should:

http://www.smartire.com/

 

lol Sorry, had to laugh.

 

We had a tire "blow out" on our 2000 sienna at about 70 mph... It (the light) came on just a few seconds before the tire completely came apart giving me just enough warning to not be totally surprised. It really worked great, but later after a new tire was put on... the warning light would come on every drive.

After a couple of trips to Toyota, I was told that it (warning system) was being set off because of the different size of the tires. The tires were all the same size but the one new one had more tread on it, hence a larger diameter causing the tire to rotate at a different speed than the other tires. This caused the computer to think that there was an inflation problem and the light came on... and on... and on...

I am not sure if this is how the newer systems are...