tpms self-learn?

[adsm08]

Are you sure your TPMS system uses sensors inside the wheels? On some AWD vehicles the TPMS system runs off the wheel speed sensors so it doesn't matter if you swap rims/tires. The system looks for a wheel moving at a different speed to determine if the tire is flat. Dunno if that's the case here, just throwing it out there...

Yes, they are in the wheels and mounted to the valve stem. Ford hasn't done the wheel-speed sensor system since 2002 or so, and only on minivans.

The easy way to tell if you have a stem mounted TPMS sensor is to look at the valve stem. A TPMS stem has a big shoulder at the bottom of the threads. A non-sensor stem has the threads going right to the edge of the rugger.

The reset parameter is something like sustained speed over 25mph for 5 miles, at least in an instance where the light was triggered and you fix/re-inflate the tire.

This does not learn new sensor IDs, only tire pressure values.

On the F250’s I believe you have to have the door closed before you do the Hokey Pokey... I don’t know about the other Fords.

The door has to be closed on all vehicles. The open door signal cancels whatever key dance you are trying to do.

When I go back to my original wheels will this have to be done or will it have that set of 4 sensors “in memory “ somehow?

If you don't train a new set of sensors it will remember the old ones.

Sensors are trained as a set, so any time one is replaced they all have to be retrained, and the system can only hold four IDs (6 on a dually). If you don't train any new sensors over the winter the old IDs will still be there and it will find them when you put the other wheels on.

 

[Curious Hound]

Good god man it's been mandatory on every vehicle since 2007.

Who in their right mind has a vehicle that new?

 

[racsan]

good to know, I’ll live with the idiot light for the few months I run the winter tires.

 

[Grumpaw]

Just be careful...
First you "train" them.
Then they become "self aware".
They will take over your Ranger !
They will bond with other TPMS in your other nearby vehicles.
They in turn will become self aware, and take over that vehicle.
Today, your Ranger....tomorrow the world !

 

[racsan]

is that what happened in the movie “maximum overdrive”? way before tpms though.

 

[Grumpaw]

is that what happened in the movie “maximum overdrive”? way before tpms though.

No, Terminator with "AAANOLD".....Would you believe he started out as a 1987 Chevy S-10 early OBD system...

 

[Dirtman]

Maximum Overdrive was the result of early attempts at automatic windshield wiper technology...

 

[sgtsandman]

On the F250’s I believe you have to have the door closed before you do the Hokey Pokey... I don’t know about the other Fords.

Neither of my Rangers have required doing that, that I have noticed.