I recently bought a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) through Matt at Dig Options. Initially it was sent to me by Matt to test and evaluate and I was happy enough with its performance to pay for it.
Final pricing is yet to be announced, but in the interests of being open I paid what I understand to be Matt’s cost price.
In the pictures posted I have blanked out the branding on this particular unit. This was done on Matts request as it was a demo unit supplied for evaluation by the manufacturer, future units will be re-branded to Matt’s business.
Whilst I’m happy to answer technical questions on the unit, please be aware I have no business association with Matt/ Dig Options and all sales enquiries should be directed to Matt, either by PM or Email;
Email: [email protected]
PM:PM Matt
My understanding is Matt is happy to offer a % discount price to Prado Point members if you contact him directly through email or PM (i.e.; not purchasing through Ebay or their upcoming direct website)
The basic unit comes with 4 sensors and I have ordered an additional 2 as I rotate through 6 tyres.
The Dig Options TPMS has the following features:
- Colour LCD screen.
- Can monitor up to 27 tyres
- Displays both pressure and temperature both as a number and in bar graph format.
- Uses what is apparently a common valve fitting that is easy to obtain (the sensors don’t fit the Toyota valves)
- Displays signal strength and battery condition of each sensor.
- Also displays the vehicles battery voltage.
- Visual and audible alarms
The unit is manufactured in Taiwan and comes well packaged and seems to be made from quality materials/plastics, with a very good fit and finish.
The instruction book is also a reasonably good effort, much better than Chinese sourced products. It’s printed on glossy paper, has colour pictures and a reasonably good English translation with only some minor gramma errors that I could spot.
When reading the instructions the unit at first seems a little hard to program but once you power it up and actually use it, it’s really quite simple.
The head unit has a colour LCD display and can be either mounted via the supplied foot or vent mounts (some double sided Velcro is also supplied). Power comes from what looks to be a reasonable quality, fused, metre long lead with cigarette lighter style plug.
The sensors themselves are the internal type with a claimed battery life of 5-7 years.
Obviously if you don’t have the ability to break a tyre bead yourself then they need to be fitted by your local tyre shop.
For those fitting themselves I found you only need to break the bead on the valve side as there is just enough room to fit the sensor without having to resort to taking the whole tyre off the rim.
The sensors are quite light and have not affected the balance of my MTZ’s, but I would suggest a tyre balance would be a good idea soon after fitting.
The original Toyota valve compared to the new one (far right)
I tested pressure (using both a VDO and Jamec-PEM gauge) and temperature (using an industrial infra-red thermometer) and found the pressure readings shown to be within a PSI of either gauge (and the gauges within a PSI of each other).
Temperature was also within 1-2 degrees of readings taken.
The specs rate the unit at +-3 degrees and +- 1.38 psi.
I’ve now been using the unit for the last 2-3 weeks and it has performed as expected. The only niggle being it’s hard to read the display at angle. It has to be mounted flat to the driver’s line of sight or it can be very difficult to read in bright light.
The plug could easily be removed and the unit hard wired.
Here the unit is in "Function mode", normally the vehicles battery voltage is displayed where the "FUN" is.
Mick
Final pricing is yet to be announced, but in the interests of being open I paid what I understand to be Matt’s cost price.
In the pictures posted I have blanked out the branding on this particular unit. This was done on Matts request as it was a demo unit supplied for evaluation by the manufacturer, future units will be re-branded to Matt’s business.
Whilst I’m happy to answer technical questions on the unit, please be aware I have no business association with Matt/ Dig Options and all sales enquiries should be directed to Matt, either by PM or Email;
Email: [email protected]
PM:PM Matt
My understanding is Matt is happy to offer a % discount price to Prado Point members if you contact him directly through email or PM (i.e.; not purchasing through Ebay or their upcoming direct website)
The basic unit comes with 4 sensors and I have ordered an additional 2 as I rotate through 6 tyres.
The Dig Options TPMS has the following features:
- Colour LCD screen.
- Can monitor up to 27 tyres
- Displays both pressure and temperature both as a number and in bar graph format.
- Uses what is apparently a common valve fitting that is easy to obtain (the sensors don’t fit the Toyota valves)
- Displays signal strength and battery condition of each sensor.
- Also displays the vehicles battery voltage.
- Visual and audible alarms
The unit is manufactured in Taiwan and comes well packaged and seems to be made from quality materials/plastics, with a very good fit and finish.
The instruction book is also a reasonably good effort, much better than Chinese sourced products. It’s printed on glossy paper, has colour pictures and a reasonably good English translation with only some minor gramma errors that I could spot.
When reading the instructions the unit at first seems a little hard to program but once you power it up and actually use it, it’s really quite simple.
The head unit has a colour LCD display and can be either mounted via the supplied foot or vent mounts (some double sided Velcro is also supplied). Power comes from what looks to be a reasonable quality, fused, metre long lead with cigarette lighter style plug.
The sensors themselves are the internal type with a claimed battery life of 5-7 years.
Obviously if you don’t have the ability to break a tyre bead yourself then they need to be fitted by your local tyre shop.
For those fitting themselves I found you only need to break the bead on the valve side as there is just enough room to fit the sensor without having to resort to taking the whole tyre off the rim.
The sensors are quite light and have not affected the balance of my MTZ’s, but I would suggest a tyre balance would be a good idea soon after fitting.
The original Toyota valve compared to the new one (far right)
I tested pressure (using both a VDO and Jamec-PEM gauge) and temperature (using an industrial infra-red thermometer) and found the pressure readings shown to be within a PSI of either gauge (and the gauges within a PSI of each other).
Temperature was also within 1-2 degrees of readings taken.
The specs rate the unit at +-3 degrees and +- 1.38 psi.
I’ve now been using the unit for the last 2-3 weeks and it has performed as expected. The only niggle being it’s hard to read the display at angle. It has to be mounted flat to the driver’s line of sight or it can be very difficult to read in bright light.
The plug could easily be removed and the unit hard wired.
Here the unit is in "Function mode", normally the vehicles battery voltage is displayed where the "FUN" is.
Mick
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