Inawise tyre pressure monitor

Yeah, nothing else can give you that instant baseline reset for all wheels after altering the pressure.
Simply gold that feature.

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Hi Baz,

I have internal Inawise and did have phone contact with the Australian distributor even after they ceased business but did not discover the reason for closure. They were the importers of that particular TPMS and the "Inawise" name was theirs.
They are manufactured by Shanghai Baolong Automotive Corporation (Chery TPMS) but you need to buy wholesale, probably in significant quantities.

The Inawise has served well by twice informing me of an air loss, but one day I will need to replace it. I prefer internal sensors with temperature monitoring and easy changing of the baseline with 'air-down' but have yet to identify an acceptable replacement. I'm hoping that someone will pick up the distribution of the Inawise-type system.

They stopped selling the units because the Chinese manufacturer would not sell them to them in the quantities they wanted to order.


I thought this odd as I have seen the unit available in New Zealand from memory and thought that if they could source it then you would think an Australian company could too. I then tried to obtain the minimum order quantities from the Chinese manufacturer but they will not reply to emails regarding sales to Australia.

Seems there just not interested, again strange as the only other place I have seen the unit advertised is the SA seller.

Thanks HKB, odd given the apparent level of interest in Australia...


Cheers, Baz - The Landy

Guys, the Chinese TPMS problems are simply related to the following factors;

1. The TPMS system is the worlds third-largest vehicle security system, behind ABS and SRS.

2. The latest figures I have seen for TPMS worldwide production was 28 million units produced in 2012. Since that time, the market for them has exploded.

3. They have been a "premium" item since their introduction, because they are fitted to the luxury vehicles either as standard or as an option.
Read "Premium" market, and you read "high profit level" market.

4. The market for TPMS has exploded since 2012 because many countries have now deemed them mandatory fit, via legislation, due to tightening safety requirements.
S. Korea was first off the starting blocks, requiring TPMS to be fitted to all vehicles under 3.5T GVW, from 2013.
China, numerous European countries, and the U.S. are following the trend with legislation passed, or being drawn up.

5. The global leaders in TPMS design and production are Schrader and Continental in that order. However, there are no less than 200 companies in China producing TPMS's.

6. Shanghai Baolong Automotive Corporation embarked on its first TPMS design in 2002 and produced their 1st generation TPMS in 2006.
They are now on about their 5th generation design - and they're listed as a designated TPMS supplier to Shanghai GM.

As you can see by the above, if you're a piddly Aussie distributor, looking to buy maybe 1000 TPMS sets at a time to meet the tiny Australian consumer demand, you're not going to even get the courtesy of a reply, because they're probably selling 1000 TPMS sets an hour, just to premium vehicle manufacturers - let alone aftermarket sales.

Such are the problems of Australia being an irrelevant tiny market in the overall global marketplace.

Cheers, Ron.

Haven't got around to it yet. My cash is going into mechanical rebuilds and new engine chip at present.