So, after having conversed with them, it turns out that there is no model number on the sensors. Only a batch number. You've just got to trust that they sent you the right ones. I'll guess we'll find out soon enough.
Annoyingly, the tyre lever I ordered got lost in transit, so I have to order another one.
Fitted new TPMS - TX-S001 Direct Fit TPMS Sensor
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Re: Fitted new TPMS - TX-S001 Direct Fit TPMS Sensor
Are you fitting them yourself Ben.
You got a wheel balancing machine ?
You got a wheel balancing machine ?
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Yeah, I’ve got the full kit. Except a tyre lever.
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///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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Re: Fitted new TPMS - TX-S001 Direct Fit TPMS Sensor
Checked all tyre pressures today. All were around 39 psi.
Pumped up to 42 psi.
The alarm for all four tyres (tpms) that was showing on the dash has disappeared. All good. Now got the OK message on start up.
Pumped up to 42 psi.
The alarm for all four tyres (tpms) that was showing on the dash has disappeared. All good. Now got the OK message on start up.
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I replaced the failed HUF sensor with one of these, but I can't get it to communicate at all. It's pissing me off. Last time I replaced all the OE sensors with HUF ones and I didn't have to do anything to get them to work.
So either these sensors are junk or I need a TPMS tool to "wake them up" so they start communicating with the car. I've ordered one but I don't hold out much hope.
Now I have to decide if I want to replace the other 3 to see if the car needs all 4 new sensors installed. It's a faff pulling the tyres off, but I guess it's just time.
Has anyone had any direct experience getting these sensors to activate?
So either these sensors are junk or I need a TPMS tool to "wake them up" so they start communicating with the car. I've ordered one but I don't hold out much hope.
Now I have to decide if I want to replace the other 3 to see if the car needs all 4 new sensors installed. It's a faff pulling the tyres off, but I guess it's just time.
Has anyone had any direct experience getting these sensors to activate?
Daytona RS6 C5 Avant. Viper'd, Billies, Waggers, MTM box brain, C6 stoppers, xcarlink, R8 coolant cap (woohoo)
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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Hi Ben. I have not had a problem with them. But I had all 4 replaced at the same time.
I think I had to go for a 20 minute drive after fitting them.
It said something like that on the instructions.
I think I had to go for a 20 minute drive after fitting them.
It said something like that on the instructions.
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Made some progress on the TPMS sensors. I made a concerted effort with the Vagcom to figure out what was going on. I was getting a reading from a couple of sensors but not the new one, or so I thought. In the measuring blocks you can go through the positions and see what the sensors are reading (if they are communicating) but it wasn't clear if the data was live or not. In adaptation you can start the "antenna diagnostics" which I assume wakes up the sensors so that they send values. You'd need them to do this to learn new pressures from the DIS.
Anyway, I noticed that front left sensor (the new one) wasn't giving a value, but the other 3 positions were. Then I started the "antenna diag" and all of them stopped communicating. Then after a while positions 2 and 3 (I assumed front right and rear left) started sending values. Odd. I went further in the measuring blocks and I saw that the spare wheel position was reporting a pressure. WTF?
I put different pressures in each tyre. 1.5 bar, 2 bar, 3 bar and 3.5 bar and started the diag again. This time I could see that the new sensor WAS in fact communicating but the car thought it was the spare wheel, even though the coding clearly sets the car for no spare wheel. Not only that but the other positions didn't correspond to what I assumed they should (in order, FL, FR, RL, RR). The wheel at 1.5 wasn't communicating so I decided to replace the sensor in that wheel too.
Trying to be clever, I pushed the tyre off the rim just behind the sensor, thinking that I could just about remove the sensor without removing the tyre completely. This would have worked if I hadn't then dropped the sensor inside the tyre
, so the tyre had to come off.
Tyre back on, I put the wheel back on the car. No comms with the new sensor. I tried waking it up with the TPMS tool I bought, but that appeared to do nothing whatsoever. More or less out of desperation, I took the car out for a drive up and down the road, hoping that would wake the sensor up. After all, *something* had woken up the first sensor I replaced. I probably did about 20 miles up and down the road. Nothing. Tried going a silly speed (any excuse) to give some decent centrifugal force to the sensor... nothing. Junk.
Tried doing the diag adaptation while driving, nothing. Tried learning the pressures from the DIS. Nothing.
Then, more or less out of ideas, I changed the coding of the TPMS module to 20389 from 22350 and cleared the fault codes. No DTC popped back up. This was new. I drove the car for a bit and then check the measuring blocks. All the sensors reporting in the correct positions. I learned the pressures from the DIS and all good. No more TPMS warning when starting the car.
My theory is that the pressures being reported by the sensors need to be close to what the TPMS is expecting for the sensor recognition to take place. By changing the coding I told the module to expect more like 3 bar than the 2.5 bar the standard coding seems to want.
Or maybe it's coincidence. I'll swap out the remaining 2 sensors later and see how that goes.
Anyway, I noticed that front left sensor (the new one) wasn't giving a value, but the other 3 positions were. Then I started the "antenna diag" and all of them stopped communicating. Then after a while positions 2 and 3 (I assumed front right and rear left) started sending values. Odd. I went further in the measuring blocks and I saw that the spare wheel position was reporting a pressure. WTF?
I put different pressures in each tyre. 1.5 bar, 2 bar, 3 bar and 3.5 bar and started the diag again. This time I could see that the new sensor WAS in fact communicating but the car thought it was the spare wheel, even though the coding clearly sets the car for no spare wheel. Not only that but the other positions didn't correspond to what I assumed they should (in order, FL, FR, RL, RR). The wheel at 1.5 wasn't communicating so I decided to replace the sensor in that wheel too.
Trying to be clever, I pushed the tyre off the rim just behind the sensor, thinking that I could just about remove the sensor without removing the tyre completely. This would have worked if I hadn't then dropped the sensor inside the tyre
, so the tyre had to come off.Tyre back on, I put the wheel back on the car. No comms with the new sensor. I tried waking it up with the TPMS tool I bought, but that appeared to do nothing whatsoever. More or less out of desperation, I took the car out for a drive up and down the road, hoping that would wake the sensor up. After all, *something* had woken up the first sensor I replaced. I probably did about 20 miles up and down the road. Nothing. Tried going a silly speed (any excuse) to give some decent centrifugal force to the sensor... nothing. Junk.
Tried doing the diag adaptation while driving, nothing. Tried learning the pressures from the DIS. Nothing.
Then, more or less out of ideas, I changed the coding of the TPMS module to 20389 from 22350 and cleared the fault codes. No DTC popped back up. This was new. I drove the car for a bit and then check the measuring blocks. All the sensors reporting in the correct positions. I learned the pressures from the DIS and all good. No more TPMS warning when starting the car.
My theory is that the pressures being reported by the sensors need to be close to what the TPMS is expecting for the sensor recognition to take place. By changing the coding I told the module to expect more like 3 bar than the 2.5 bar the standard coding seems to want.
Or maybe it's coincidence. I'll swap out the remaining 2 sensors later and see how that goes.
Daytona RS6 C5 Avant. Viper'd, Billies, Waggers, MTM box brain, C6 stoppers, xcarlink, R8 coolant cap (woohoo)
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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Re: Fitted new TPMS - TX-S001 Direct Fit TPMS Sensor
WTF. What a faff. All I did was fit them pump up to correct pressure then go for a drive for about 20 mins.
You have a lot more patience than me Ben.
I would have bought 4 new alloys. 4 new tyres. 4 new sensors. And if that didn’t work I would have turned the tpms off.
You have a lot more patience than me Ben.
I would have bought 4 new alloys. 4 new tyres. 4 new sensors. And if that didn’t work I would have turned the tpms off.
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Yeah, it's quite possible that if I had inflated my tyres to 2.5 bar then it would have all sync'd ok without me having to change the coding. But I run my tyres at 3 bar.
/In my defense I had previously tried this, for this reason, but it didn't work. I suspect however that it is because the second HUF sensor had died and wasn't transmitting
/In my defense I had previously tried this, for this reason, but it didn't work. I suspect however that it is because the second HUF sensor had died and wasn't transmitting
Daytona RS6 C5 Avant. Viper'd, Billies, Waggers, MTM box brain, C6 stoppers, xcarlink, R8 coolant cap (woohoo)
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
///M3 E46 | XC90 (V8, natch) | Passat GTE | RR Classic V8 flapper
"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."
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Hi Ben
This is really good info. Like you I also run my tyres at about 3 bar and one day when I find BBS compatible sensors I may re-enable the TPMS on my car
Regards
Craig
This is really good info. Like you I also run my tyres at about 3 bar and one day when I find BBS compatible sensors I may re-enable the TPMS on my car
Regards
Craig
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