Hi. I have a TPMS which originally worked ok. However, the sensors will no longer pair with the receiver. The battery in the monitor and those in the sensors are ok and well within the voltage range. I have tried removing the sensors and then repairing them but it just doesnt work. The monitor gets to the stage where the 0 interface is blinking but will not go past this point. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Mine don't send a signal until the car's is doing about 20kph. The sensors needs some centrifugal movement to turn on. It's so the batteries don't go flat pointlessly being parked.
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I think I have a different setup to you. My unit used to turn on when there was any vibration in my motorhome, and would display the various readings on the monito. Thanks for your input just the same. Cheers
Hi bristle. It is an unbranded item I purchased online. It is a 6 sensor model with screw on sensors. I would like to attach a photo but dont know how to do it.
My Safety Dave unit works all the time, stationary or moving. Given these differences between units, you need to tell us which one you have.
My ARB TPMS is on all the time, if there is power as it's wired in, but it is an old reading when I fire up the car. The pressure is only actually updated when the car is moving >20kph.
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Hi bristle. It is an unbranded item I purchased online. It is a 6 sensor model with screw on sensors. I would like to attach a photo but dont know how to do it.
Ok to attach a photo. Just for arguments sake you post with a laptop and have taken the photo with your phone. Send the the photo to your laptop noting where you save it. Below the typing window there is an attach file button. Click that and select where you have saved the file. Click on the file and wait for it to load.
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Can I ask, as with all electronic gadgets that have issues, Have you turned it off, waited a while then turn it back on.
Tim
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Dennis, from my experience I would Bin the Monitor, and replace it or the complete setup.
I was not sure that my Monitor was working properly, prior to coming home on a remote trip, checked all the sensors, all Ok according to the monitor, drove 10 Km over a rough track then 40Km on a gravel road, when I hit the tar heard this noise from the caravan stopped and rear passenger caravan tyre on our tandem van. had disappeared with wire wrapped around the axle and the steel wheel was just a flat cylinder, the TPMS monitor showed the sensor/tyre pressure still read 45psi. ( sensor must have been xx Km away)
My TPMS over 20+ years has saved a number of tyres as well as notifying me of a cracked wheel. Purchased a New InnoTechRV Monitor.
I have a Safety Dave TPMS with six sensors (4 on the tug and 2 on the single axle van) that I bought when the van was new seven years ago. On our first trip away, the van sensors did not work at all. I got back to Safety Dave and they sent me a transponder/repeater that plugged into 12V in the back of the tug and that fixed the problem with the van sensors. I then mounted the repeater permanently on the drawbar of the van and that worked ok for several years. Until again the van sensors did not register on the display. I swapped the van sensors onto the tug and proved that the sensors worked ok. The tug sensors have always worked ok. Safety Dave gave me another repeater, but still no van sensor data. How does one find out where the problem lies?
Part of the difficulty is that the TPMS only works reliably when the vehicle is moving at road speeds and where my van is stored is not where it is easy to take a quick run around the block. So quick tests of the full rig are out of the question.
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SG, I suspect that your monitor is the problem (weak reception), suggest you get a loan of another one or buy one. Does the monitor have a small aerial and is it fully extended.
A good monitor should work some of the time even without a repeater, so on your next trip/test if a replacement monitor works some of the time it will prove that your old monitor was at fault, and of course if it works all the time your repeater is OK.
and Re (Part of the difficulty is that the TPMS only works reliably when the vehicle is moving at road speeds)
Mount the Repeater on the Back of your Tug and sensors on partners car, find a 3 lane road, have partner drive on the adjacent lane. Check out System
-- Edited by PeterInSa on Tuesday 21st of May 2024 11:46:07 PM
I can't comment on your unit dennis78. All I can say is that my Safety Dave unit has worked without issue in the few years that I've had it without the need to use the included repeater in the back of my Prado. I do have a compact van so that may help. I've only had a (slow) leak due to a puncture (on a van tyre) once and it worked. I get occasional confirmation that it is still working when I forget to turn the unit off when airing down or up and when checking tyre pressures. The one negative is that there's no alert if a sensor battery goes flat, as happened once. You have to notice on the display that one reading is missing. I assume that if a wheel came completely off then it wouldn't sound an alert. I wonder whether any other units do this.
PeterinSa wrote:
"Mount the Repeater on the Back of your Tug and sensors on partners car, find a 3 lane road, have partner drive on the adjacent lane. Check out System"
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That is good lateral thinking, thanks PeterinSa. It is worth a try. I have been wracking my brains as to how I can test the system either without moving or ???
Bristte - My Safety Dave (not the latest system now available) sets off an alarm after about half an hour or so if any sensor cannot be sensed. This might be due to the sensor being stolen or battery flat or just can't get a reading from the sensor. The display also indicates a blank for that/those particular sensor(s).
