Man if you find it please send it this way. I'd love to try it.
Anyway to easily reset TPMS on a 2018?
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Man if you find it please send it this way. I'd love to try it.
03_4x4Runner
Senior Member
A carefully placed small piece of electrical tape solves my light problem when I run my 2nd set of wheels and tires with no TPMS sensors.
Mutant138
Banned
Would if i could but I purged my IG last night of everyone I don't have some sort of personal association with, a lot of my own photos, and went private. :shrug:
cb1111
Member
In the mid-eighties I was living in Heidelberg. There was a short time period that the $ to DM exchange rate went sky high so it was a great time to buy a car. We always wanted a Jaguar so I went to the local dealer to see what they had.
I was the first private person to buy a car at the dealership. He was a factory authorized tuner so he had a bunch of cool cars. One was a month old XJ-V12HE with a brand new engine. He had sold the car as a company car and just bought it back very cheaply, realized he couldn't sell it as a company car so was selling it on fire sale.
I ended up buying it and it turned out to be the most reliable Jag ever - the only problems I encountered were the typical Jag tank switch that went bad a frozen handbrake.
So, why am I saying this and why did the car have a new engine?
The prior owner had an oil pressure light come on that he resolved with a carefully placed small piece of electrical tape.
I actually ended up buying a XJS-V12 as well.
jrandom
New member
I asked because the threads I've followed have been inconclusive or simply cover with tape.
I grew up without it. TPMS is a pretty good system, not sure I agree with your blanket statement, no matter we all have opinions. Get debris/nail/screw in the freeway on a long drive, loose pressure, see it before you feel it *shrug* I dunno I think that there are other features far more nanny than that.
I air down all the time, as well as monitor the PSI, I like knowing where it is at, regardless if I am filling, driving aired up or down.
cb1111
Member
So true and this is where it can help every driver.
One of the most common tire issues is a slow leak. You pick up a nail and it (mostly) plugs the hole but will deflate in a couple of hours or over night. With modern tires, you can't tell by a visual inspection if a tire is low - you need to check it.
I'm not sure how she does it, but over the last couple of years she's picked up three nails. In each case (we check tire pressure monthly at the same time that we give our dog her heartworm and flea meds.) we found the leak in the AM as my wife was going to work and the TPMS alerted by the time she got to the bottom of the driveway.
In each case, the TPMS saved the tire. Had she driven on the tire longer then the tire would have been damaged beyond repair.
a t l a s
New member
Pretty sure it was forum user [MENTION=144375]dot_tom[/MENTION] that posted the TPMS light mod on a Facebook group.
dot_tom
New member
Here you go.
Hey, that was me. I cannot take credit as I found the how to somewhere in the depths of this forum.
Just disable it all together. I’m now running rubber valve stems also.
Made this jumper wire
Jumped these two wires together. They are 5 & 6 on the tpms sensors module. (Light green and dark green. Right next to each other behind driver dash panel.)
Light is forever gone.
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Jimbo
New member
Audis went to indirect, but Porsche has kept individual pressure sensors.
Not sure what VW's use...
Agree with your maintenance comments. Mixed bag for sure.
cb1111
Member
VW uses the indirect method again as well.
Here you go.
Hey, that was me. I cannot take credit as I found the how to somewhere in the depths of this forum.
Just disable it all together. I’m now running rubber valve stems also.
Made this jumper wire
Jumped these two wires together. They are 5 & 6 on the tpms sensors module. (Light green and dark green. Right next to each other behind driver dash panel.)
Light is forever gone.
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Well seems they might of changed something on 2018.
I shorted 5 & 6 and light is still on. Light green and dark green.
Used a quick splice and no go
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Nevermind use the right size quick splice if you going do this lol.
First try i used one too big didnt even cut the insulation
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dot_tom
New member
The wires being so small made it hard at first. Glad to hear you got it working!
Prolly didn't help I tried to be lazy. I didn't remove any panels and stuck one hand up there.
hahahahaha
fred smith
New member
A violation of what? #LOL #OMG
ElectroBoy
Banned
The consumer isn’t violating anything by disabling the TPMS. But a tire dealer would be violating Motor Vehicle Safety Act (49 USC 30122(b) by making your TPMS inoperative by installing rubber stems on your truck’s wheels. But if your TPMS wasn’t working at the time you went in to get new tires, that’s OK. They didn’t make the system inoperative, it already didn’t work. It’s a confusing issue for everyone, consumers, dealers, tire dealers, repair shops.
This article explains it better:
Dealing With the Legalities of TPMS: ‘Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse’ | 2017-04-20 | Modern Tire Dealer
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