User Experience With Tire Rack Tpms Tool needed
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Burning Brakes
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User Experience With Tire Rack Tpms Tool needed
If you've read my other thread I'm having a problem With the tpms sensors retaining programming with the just installed Michelin Pilot Sport A/S P Zero's. I'd like to carry this with me if I'm stuck with a false flat tire and hope it will reprogram and eliminate the 55mph computer imposed speed restriction.
I'd like to hear from anyone who has personally used this and better yet owns one and can confirm it works as well as the Gm dealers unit. Reading the instructions from Tire Rack they reference three models. VT5 a VT10 and a VT15. The unit pictured is an model VT5. Please try and state your model.
Thanks very much. I'm now driving my C6 waiting for the DIC to display " flat tire reduced power and speed".
Please chime in [ not intended as a pun }.
I'd like to hear from anyone who has personally used this and better yet owns one and can confirm it works as well as the Gm dealers unit. Reading the instructions from Tire Rack they reference three models. VT5 a VT10 and a VT15. The unit pictured is an model VT5. Please try and state your model.
Thanks very much. I'm now driving my C6 waiting for the DIC to display " flat tire reduced power and speed".
Please chime in [ not intended as a pun }.
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Not what you're asking but here's BEZ06's recommended tool and some thoughts on the VT units. 
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/1575521581-post3.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/1575521581-post3.html
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Burning Brakes
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Rick thanks for your reply, unfortunately per that web-site the tool has been discontinued. I do appreciate your help.
Any one else with the Vat or any other programmer suggestions?
Any one else with the Vat or any other programmer suggestions?
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Reprogramming probably will not help. All programming does is train the car where a sensor is located. If the radio signal isn't received the DIC will show xxx and no pressure. When this happens the speed Active Handling is forced on but speed isn't limited to 55mph. If the signal is received the DIC will show the pressure indicated by the sensor (actually it takes the value sent by the sensor and computes the pressure from that value before it displays the pressure). If you are getting a pressure reading of zero or a flat tire message the TPMS signal is being received and either the sensor is sending the wrong value or something is happening when the pressure is calculated by the module in the car. Reprogramming will not change that. You can reprogram every 15 minutes and not make a difference.
Bill
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Reprogramming probably will not help. All programming does is train the car where a sensor is located. If the radio signal isn't received the DIC will show xxx and no pressure. When this happens the speed Active Handling is forced on but speed isn't limited to 55mph. If the signal is received the DIC will show the pressure indicated by the sensor (actually it takes the value sent by the sensor and computes the pressure from that value before it displays the pressure). If you are getting a pressure reading of zero or a flat tire message the TPMS signal is being received and either the sensor is sending the wrong value or something is happening when the pressure is calculated by the module in the car. Reprogramming will not change that. You can reprogram every 15 minutes and not make a difference.
Bill
Bill
I responded to the other thread before I saw this one.However, having the tool has the ability to verify if the sensor has malfunctioned. Simply reprogram the sensors, but change the order of the sequence in which you acquire the signal. The car doesn't know where the wheels are, just the order you got the signals. If the LF (the suspect sensor) is sequenced last instead of first, you will get a good reading for the LF on the DIC and a flat showing somewhere else. The correct sequence is LF, RF, RR, LR. If you change the sequence to RF, RR, LR, LF, then the DIC will show the flat tire on the RF, because it's the first one on your revised sequence. That will confirm the sensor in the LF tire is bad rather than any issue of the car's receiver.
Of course, do a correct sequence reprogram after the test, so all the other sensors show the correct location. You will also need to reprogram again after installing a new sensor.
In the meantime, keep the tire gauge handy.
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Burning Brakes
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Tom [hoxxoh] great response to program in different sequence. That would definately verify if l/f was at fault.
All the more reason I'd like advice on which non Gm tpms programmer to purchase. Have a digital tire gauge in all my vehicles.
And thanks Bill we like to do weekend road trips and now knowing speed won't be limited is "worth it's weight in gold" [well almost!].
All the more reason I'd like advice on which non Gm tpms programmer to purchase. Have a digital tire gauge in all my vehicles.
And thanks Bill we like to do weekend road trips and now knowing speed won't be limited is "worth it's weight in gold" [well almost!].
