MotorCare

Overall, the solution’s packaging is impressive, but the implementation falls short, affecting the score. The app hasn’t been updated in over a year, which could indicate a lack of ongoing investment and potentially a limited future. CarPlay support would be a valuable addition, especially for motorcyclists—after all, they’re geared up, with their phones tucked away, helmet on, and gloves on. It would be convenient if they could access the data on their bike’s CarPlay system rather than having to stop and remove their gear. Additionally, some of the English translations could be clearer; for instance, “electricity level” likely refers to battery life, and a result of “20” is presumably a percentage. I will also add that there is a real problem, as most other reviews had pointed out. The displayed measurement could be seconds, minutes, days or years old….. they need to either expire a measurement or add a time stamp, it could be quite dangerous to think you have a well inflated tire but the measurement be out of date and you are riding a dangerously under pressurized tyre.

I bought the TPM for my Harley and the app has 2 separate settings and warnings for Front and Back tires. Make sue that you change the default settings to meet your needs. In my case the front tire is 36psi and the back is 40 psi therefore had to adjust the max/lower psi limits and temperature settings for both tires.

Pretty unfortunate that a cool product like their motorcycle TPMS sensors plus app comes with not customer support. This product would be AWESOME if it worked with CarPlay bc if you’re riding and your phone is in your tour pack you’ll never get the alert. But if it worked with CarPlay, most late model touring bikes have CarPlay, then the alert would appear on the screen.

The app now has different sensors for front and rear tires. The ability to set independent air and temperature thresholds for each tire is very useful. There is a setting that is titled electricity warning lower limit. I am not sure what that is for. As a bit of advice, don’t use generic settings for your tire for this app. Look up the manufacturer recommended settings for your motorcycle. The weight of the bike and temperature of the tire effect proper tire wear and handling.

October 10, 2023 When MotorCare is opened, it dims the iPhone screen brightness to about 50% every time. Ever since v3.0.4 on iOS v16.5.1 and still happening today with app v3.2 on iOS 16.7 they still haven’t fixed this bug! Each time you open the app, the screen brightness dims a little more. You can manually readjust the brightness afterwards, but opening the app will override the brightness setting and dim it again.

I like the TPMS sensors. Very easy to set up. The App however needs work. My motorcycle has 2 different pressures. The front is 36 psi and the rear is 40psi. In the App system Settings, there is only a wsy to set 1 tire psi high and low settings for alerts. There needs to be 1 setting for each tire because of different tire pressures. 1 for each tire.

I bought 2 sets for my motorcycles. This app only supports one set at the time. Every time I switch to another bike, I have to rescan the QR code.

I love the app and wish they might do some integration with shortcuts for a widget or something like that, but what I really would like to see from the app is separate alarms for front and rear tires. The pressure in the front tire of a motorcycle is almost always 2-5 psi less than the rear tire. I think having a low psi for front alarm and a low psi for rear alarm separate, would go a long way with bikers.

The latest release is working well. A suggestion for the developer is to include the time stamp of the last pressure reading. This would help understand if the pressure reading is current or old.

My app is showing tire pressure on one tire even though both sensors are removed and sitting in my office which is 15 miles away. Sometimes the reading seems accurate, other times it is clearly made up (of previous readings, I suppose) as it is right now. I removed them because I was taking the bike in for service but forgot to put them back on and left them in the office. How can there be a reading for a sensor that is miles away and not installed on a tire?