Timeline for Tire rotation, and wheel alignment led to broken tire pressure sensor
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| May 3, 2018 at 1:41 | history | edited | Shamtam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 3, 2018 at 0:55 | comment | added | Shamtam | @DavidLively I'll concede the "triangulation" point, since I was under the impression that many cars use multiple receive antennas (one per wheel well) instead of a single antenna. I'll edit that part out. | |
| May 3, 2018 at 0:54 | comment | added | Shamtam | @DavidLively Well my Subaru (plus most Toyotas, just to name a couple) have no way to re-program the TPMS without something like an ATEQ Quickset or manufacturer-specific tool. There are plenty of threads on the web that show this exact problem after a tire rotation, where the car's computer triggers a low-pressure warning after rotating tires without resetting the TPMS. It seems most of them self re-learn after several miles of driving, though, so it's nothing more than a temporary issue. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 21:06 | comment | added | 3Dave | That vehicle - and every other one I've seen that has TPMS - has a pretty simple procedure for telling the computer which sensor is on which corner, without a Tech II or any other special tools. And, the computer can't tell, without some nifty triangulation system that it doesn't have, which wheel is where. It'll just report the wrong pressure on "left front" when that tire is actually on "right rear." This answer is completely wrong. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 17:42 | history | answered | Shamtam | CC BY-SA 4.0 |