MAN-aging tyres made easy

MAN Automotive South Africa has teamed up with Continental Tyre South Africa to equip its EfficientLine range of trucks with Continental’s Intelligent Tyres fitted with ContiPressureCheck (CPC).

CPC allows for the real-time monitoring of tyre performance, pressure and temperature. It can be integrated with the fleet’s telematics provider to make monitoring tyre pressure even easier and more transparent.

Tyre data collected with CPC is available to both the dispatcher’s computer and the vehicle’s driver via an on-board display. If there is a deviation from the defined values, both fleet managers and drivers will be able to react quickly in order to prevent potential time-consuming downtimes.

The CPC system comprises a two-centimetre-long transmitter that weighs less than 20 g, as well as a processor, which is affixed to the inside of the tyre tread in a rubber bracket. When the tyre is changed, the processor can be removed from the bracket and reused in the new tyre. The battery lasts for six years, or approximately 600 000 km.

CPC is compatible with all tyre brands and all vehicles. It is suited to almost any combination including buses, coaches, single-axle trailers or even six-axle tractor/trailers with a maximum of 24 tyres.

“The fact that our Intelligent Tyres, which come preinstalled with ContiPressureCheck sensors, have been adopted by MAN Automotive for its premium range of EfficientLine vehicles is a clear signal that our tyre-pressure monitoring system has been well received by the original equipment market,” says Darren Voges, business development manager: truck business unit at Continental Tyre SA.