TPMS: how to get rid of this pain

ventisetterosso

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Good morning,

does PLEASE anybody know how to get finally rid of that **** TPMS warning?
I mean... FOREVER?

I replaced all four sensors at Maserati in Switzerland, because they were dead.
Brought the car home with no warning light. Put the car in the garage for two
weeks because of bad weather (very cold and snowy). Turned engine on and...
ABRACADABRA... here it goes again: TPMS not availabe.

Now, since I can easily live without this **** thing, is there a way to disconnect
or disable the whole system so I don't see no warnings, no lights on the dash,
no nothing? *

Thanks for suggestions.

Bye.

* I suffer from obsessive compulsive syndrome and this is causing me to go
back to meditation therapy. Don't have time for that.
 

CatmanV2

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There is a rumour that the sensors can go to sleep. Not 100% convinced but...

1) Was the car on a battery tender? If not give the battery a full charge.
2) Disconnect the battery for 30 minutes. This is a battery reset
3) Go for a decent drive (20-30 miles) See if you can do the TMPS calibration
4) Deflate the tyres and chunk and pumpt them back up. This is supposed to 'wake' the sensors.

Welcome to the forum BTW. Lovely looking car :)

C
 

ventisetterosso

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Thanks.
Car is connected to tender anytime while sleeping.
I'll try the battery reset. It helped in the past (dashboard was dead, the reset fixed it like an adrenaline shot throug the heart).
I will keep you informed if it works, so it can be useful to others.
 

safrane

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I had a big luxo barge in 1999 that had this same issue. The main dealer was able to switch it off in the ECU.
 

ventisetterosso

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Tried battery reset.
Nothing.
Will go back to dealer and ask to fix it or take that stupid ecu out of my car. I can live without it.
By the way, happy 2018.
 

zagatoes30

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It is a common problem, the wife brand new Skoda keeps triggering this and the dealer has no idea why. We just drop the pressures a bit and then pump them back up to pressure and it seems OK for a month or so. It seems to be much worse in the colder days I suspect the pressure drops a little and triggers it.
 

MrMickS

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I've had this issue with the Ghibli. It appears to be the pressure at cold. If they are below what it wants then instead of reporting that you've low pressure on a tyre it seems to assume that the system is faulty. The solution was to use the compressor to get the cold values up to the minimum pressure. This means I'm running higher than the recommended pressures once, or if in the case of these P-Zeros, the tyres get warmed up but no more alarm.
 

Classico

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Had this issue on my GranTurismo.

Like you, replaced all the tyre sensors.

The problem for my car was that the MCU chip for the sensors located on the right hand side floor also had to be changed.

Once that was completed, the TPMS worked.

Hope that helps.
 

ventisetterosso

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Thank you so much for all your advices.
I will wait until it gets warmer and only then go back to dealer. Let's see if it depends on temperature. Which I also suspect.