TPMS Lesson Learned; Two Flat Tires in Two Days!

[Cat]

Traveling on Highway 1 and 101 from Carmel, CA to Seattle, my stock SAS Goodyears picked up some gnarly foreign objects. Lots of construction happening.

The first event started yesterday with a TPMS alert at 27 psi on the front pax tire. Pulled over, used my engine-mounted ARB and filled it back to 35.

Less than a mile later, that tire dropped to 6 psi. Whatever I ran over became dislodged and left a good-sized hole allowing air to escape. Pulled over, and immediately an awesome construction worker installed the spare, which had 35 psi.

Stopped at a nearby Les Schwab; they patched and plugged the bad tire...no charge (love that company).

The TPMS light never went out, tho, and indicated the replaced tire was still low, even tho the gage read 35 psi. Today, when the tire heated up and the gage read 36 psi, did it clear. Thus, my lesson about the TPMS light finally extinguishing seems to be the tires must be inflated to above 35.

My tire trouble wasn't over. As soon as the replaced tire indication was restored to normal, it was replaced with a TPMS alert for the drivers left rear tire; gage says 29 psi.

Limped into another Les Schwab. Look what they pulled out; buried to the hilt... Un-freaking-believable!

So, now I have two patched and plugged Goodyears. Wonder how much more mileage I can get on them. I am at ~14K now.

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[Boreal]

So, now I have two patched and plugged Goodyears.

And a GoPro thready boy!

Assuming they were properly plug patched, I’d feel comfortable driving them till replacement is required

 

[TXscooterguy]

When I was crossing Eastern Louisiana this Spring I got a TPMS alert but the tire involved seemed to be just fine. I decided to ignore the alert and keep driving. A few miles down the road the system reset and all was good. A few miles later it did the same fault again. It once again reset after a few miles. For the next 500+ miles it didn't have as problem. I thought I had a intermittent problem with either that sender or the receiver in the vehicle. The service guy told me that tire senders use a radio frequency to link to the TPMS in the Bronco. Occasionally there can local radio interference that messes up the connection. Thousands of miles later and I've not had that problem again (but I haven't been driving in Louisiana either.)

 

[Greg2060]

So, now I have two patched and plugged Goodyears. Wonder how much more mileage I can get on them. I am at ~14K now.

You shouldn't have any issues related to the plugs. I have fixed many tires using plugs and they were totally fine until needing to be replaced due to overall thread wear.

 

[Donkeygyrl]

At 11 miles I got rid of the sas goodyears,Goodyear, good for picking up junk off highway and leaving you straight stranded.

 

[da_jokker]

Guess you never aired down. Yeah, I hated it....air down to go off road, then back up to 35 where I normally run and it keeps complaining.

After about the 2nd time of having to air up too much to air back down to 35..that was the final straw and I got Forscan to lower the threshold.

 

[Cliffhanger]

I’ll bet they last you. My tpms didn’t have to say a word when this one happened. It was like opening a can of Busch x 1,000.

 

[Cat]

Guess you never aired down. Yeah, I hated it....air down to go off road, then back up to 35 where I normally run and it keeps complaining.

After about the 2nd time of having to air up too much to air back down to 35..that was the final straw and I got Forscan to lower the threshold.

Oh, I have aired down plenty of times. Never had the lingering TPMS light before, tho.

I’ll bet they last you. My tpms didn’t have to say a word when this one happened. It was like opening a can of Busch x 1,000.

YIKES! Was that a chunk of wood?

 

[hemiblas]

Oh, I have aired down plenty of times. Never had the lingering TPMS light before, tho.

YIKES! Was that a chunk of wood?

It looks like it...So much for tough side walls....These are great tires for the road, but I'd never offroad in them.

 

[Cliffhanger]

There was a rotten log next to the trail, the front tire missed it but somehow that piece of heart wood jumped out at me. The trails were known to just be muddy/grassy so I didn’t bother airing down. Not sure if it would have made a difference but it had to have been at a perfect angle to spear it like that!

 

[SS Bronco]

The Goodyears a cheep light weight tires. There has been plenty of post on here about the quality. On my last trip to Baja , 7 flats all stock Goodyears.

 

[Cat]

The Goodyears a cheep light weight tires. There has been plenty of post on here about the quality. On my last trip to Baja , 7 flats all stock Goodyears.

Well, I can't wait to get some Mickey Thompsons on. I just hate throwing away new tires, so I will keep learning on these until they wear down.

 

[wizardoforange]

That's some really bad luck, but I'm glad it didn't cause you too much trouble.

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