Valve mounted TPMS is a bodge. Wait for the mandated systems, the sensors will be strap mounted or bonded to the rim in the first generation, moulded into the tyre in the second. We are currently in a period where the amateurs and bodgers have got to market first. Properly engineered TPMS reports the increase in running temperature before a gauge would flag anything, reports low pressure just as a gauge would and fails to a lump of dead tech that just leaves you using a gauge as you would now.
I have recordings showing sensors that lost the rim temperature 100000 km ago. They''ve come loose and are rumbling round the inside of the tyre. They still send the pressure. The tyre valve is completely separate.
React to the temperature warning and you might avoid the blowbout that ruins the trip. If it doesn't do temperature it's just a gauge you can use standing up at the very best.
"Made-in....." is just advertising. If a North Korean moulding is snapped shut over Chinese electronics in an Indian case using Turkish workers, so long as it's done in Germany you can mark it as made there. Everything includes a Chinese component. What you need to know is if Honda/Samsung/Dell/ PLA tractor plant #4 is any good at managing this.
Andy
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