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Prospect62
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Ah ok. So would the dealer's scanner be able to read this thing or am I going to be paying for a new TPMS sensor?
TPMS - do I need the dealer to save me?
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Ah ok. So would the dealer's scanner be able to read this thing or am I going to be paying for a new TPMS sensor?
PG01
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Either way, you need a new sensor.... find a tire place by you... they deal with this all the time... cheaper than dealer and by the way f the dealer....
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I couldn't agree more. I'm not a fan of any auto repair shops. For a guy used to doing stuff on his own, I've never liked being at the mercy of "professionals" because 95 out of 100 times they're completely full of sh*t and are generally dishonest hacks.
The sad fact is there's so much on these modern vehicles that you must have done professionally, you aren't left with much choice if you want things done the right way.
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That's why I suggest you checking it out with your MDI with GDS software, the most important tool in your toolbox! I know you don't have it, yet.
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That's why I suggest you checking it out with your MDI with GDS software, the most important tool in your toolbox! I know you don't have it, yet.
You're going to make me buy something aren't you...
here is what you do, rotate that wheel to another location to confirm dead tpms.
no need to buy anything other than a tpms sensor, 99.99999% chance that's all it is
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Well what I did was when it prompted me to scan that tire, I scanned the left rear instead and it registered that immediately. So I'm fairly confident now that the sensor is bad (or not reading the calibration tool for whatever reason).
Just find it odd that it was sending a signal to the truck just fine all along, only when I went to recalibrate them did it disappear.
Just find it odd that it was sending a signal to the truck just fine all along, only when I went to recalibrate them did it disappear.
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That's why I suggest you checking it out with your MDI with GDS software, the most important tool in your toolbox! I know you don't have it, yet.
OK I just priced MDI's and GDS software and I can confidently say that those items will never, ever be a part of my toolbox.
when I bought my 18 I bought it online, in the photos it showed the tire tpms readings, I had it delivered and the salesman drove it about 6 hours to me, mid-way on that trip it decided there was no tpms signal, come to find out there were no tpms installed at all, whoever had traded it in had swapped the wheels out and it took it that long to electronically figure out there was no tpms signal. needless to say the dealer paid for new tpms but it just goes to show how it can still maintain a "ghost" tpms signal.
you could buy the vxdiag nano and use a laptop or tablet and install the hacked china software to get a functional mdi and gds, cost me about $220. 100 for the vxdiag and 100 for a dell windows tablet (needs a USB type a port). you have to disable the windows security and antivirus settings to get it installed because it changes some windows files to make it work without having to buy the gds subscription. some people have expressed concern about it possibly having a virus but personally to me it doesn't matter I bought the tablet as a dedicated automotive tool I don't put my personal info on it anyway.
