TPMS Malfunction

[MJ6]

https://www. tpms. com/Huf-IntelliSens-2014-2017-BMW-M3-F80-Sedan-p/uvc-rde027-m3-set.htm

Best ones I've found. Just remove the spaces in the link as the forum apparently likes to sensor this particular site as it's not a "sponsor".

[2011ninja]

Originally Posted by MJ6

https://www. tpms. com/Huf-IntelliSens-2014-2017-BMW-M3-F80-Sedan-p/uvc-rde027-m3-set.htm

Best ones I've found. Just remove the spaces in the link as the forum apparently likes to sensor this particular site as it's not a "sponsor".

Just cost me $200 to have a TPMS replaced and reset at dealer.

[CYANiDE]

Go to 106th Street Tire on Northern Blvd. They do this all day. The prices you got are nuts.

[White340]

Originally Posted by CYANiDE

Go to 106th Street Tire on Northern Blvd. They do this all day. The prices you got are nuts.

Just looked them up. They have some shady reviews on google..

[CYANiDE]

Originally Posted by White340

Just looked them up. They have some shady reviews on google..

I've been going there for years and never had an issue - just for basic patches and tire mount/balance. Never got an alignment there or purchased tires from them.

[2011ninja]

Originally Posted by White340

Just looked them up. They have some shady reviews on google..

That usually goes hand in hand with a great deal

[JagR2611]

Originally Posted by White340

I called a few places and they want 100 each for the sensors and 50 each for mounting and rebalancing. SMH this was such a stupid mistake to buy eBay tpms.


Anyone know a reasonably priced place to install TPMS and road force balance in the queens/LI area?

I paid 50 each last time and they took all of 10 - 15 minutes to install and balance all four so there must be someone who is willing to do it for less.

For what it's worth...when you stray, you end up spending the same amount as the OEM trying to sort out whatever issues surface.

~$100 is about right.

Link to the best price I could find below.

https://www.getbmwparts.com/oem-part...bC1sNi1nYXM%3D

[White340]

Originally Posted by DML

Yes & Yes. Tire Rack

Ok I ordered them from tire rack. I called them and they said for the m3 they recommend continental tpms which are 35 each.

106th street tires will charge 15 each to install them.

What they said as well is that they charge 80 to reset and program them. Is there anything that needs to be done to the tpms on their end besides installing them? I thought resetting just require an idrive reset?

[jd__m4]

Originally Posted by White340

What they said as well is that they charge 80 to reset and program them. Is there anything that needs to be done to the tpms on their end besides installing them? I thought resetting just require an office reset?

That's a new one- the TPMS should work fine with a reset in the iDrive settings- no programming needed.

[jmciver]

Originally Posted by jd__m4

That's a new one- the TPMS should work fine with a reset in the iDrive settings- no programming needed.

It depends.... The sensors themselves are fairly generic and will work with several manufacturers. However, most vendors sell them already pre-programmed. I know the ones I purchased were pre-programmed for BMW (and was specifically stated in the listing on eBay). Once they are programmed for the vehicle, in this case BMW, the car (iDrive) will recognize them.

[jd__m4]

Originally Posted by jmciver

It depends.... The sensors themselves are fairly generic and will work with several manufacturers. However, most vendors sell them already pre-programmed. I know the ones I purchased were pre-programmed for BMW (and was specifically stated in the listing on eBay). Once they are programmed for the vehicle, in this case BMW, the car (iDrive) will recognize them.

Huh didn’t know that- the Huf sensors I’ve purchased in the past have been plug and play, I wonder if the Tire Rack ones are as well...

[White340]

Originally Posted by jmciver

It depends.... The sensors themselves are fairly generic and will work with several manufacturers. However, most vendors sell them already pre-programmed. I know the ones I purchased were pre-programmed for BMW (and was specifically stated in the listing on eBay). Once they are programmed for the vehicle, in this case BMW, the car (iDrive) will recognize them.

I called tire rack and they said they are not programmed and to check my owners manual for instructions on how to program them 😡.

Can anyone confirm whether they've had to program tire rack sensors or whether just performing an idrivr reset did the trick?

Thanks

[AlterZgo]

Originally Posted by White340

I called tire rack and they said they are not programmed and to check my owners manual for instructions on how to program them 😡.

Can anyone confirm whether they've had to program tire rack sensors or whether just performing an idrivr reset did the trick?

Thanks

I think you will be fine. They are just telling you that you need to reset the TPMS via iDrive... which you have to do anytime you change TPMS sensors anyway. There are no sensors available - not even the BMW OEM ones - that can be literally plug and play. When you add any TPMS to the rims/tires of your car, you always need to reset them via the TPMS reset in iDrive. They don't require coding or anything specific to your car. They just have to be compatible with your car.

I didn't get my rims/tires from Tirerack but I just bought some from another vendor. They simply asked for yr, make, model of car. They didn't need my VIN# or anything special. I got the brand new rim/tire w/ TPMS and installed them on my car and went thru the regular TPMS reset procedure in iDrive and got them working fairly easily.

[White340]

Ok so I had the tire rack tpms installed today and they work fine. They didn't need to be programmed and reset using idrive. I got a little nervous when it paused at 49% for a few minutes but then it finally pushed through all the way.

Here is a pic of the tpms sensor I previously had installed :

[IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/cH8gzwsF/720-DE...5-CF9-FA22.jpg[/IMG]


These are all over eBay with the same identifiers. They are much cheaper than when I bought mine for around 100. I'm seeing all four for 32 bucks on eBay right now...

I took it apart and this is the battery it was using if anyone is interested:

[IMG]https://i.postimg.cc/tRzbd7bP/2-DD42...DE88-CA830.jpg[/IMG]


Anyway, live and learn. Don't cheap out on stuff when the install is expensive!

[FrenchBoy]

I have been having the same error message for the past week or so on my winter setup. I have checked the pressure and attempted to reset the TPMS a few times. Gets stuck at 49% and then the error comes back.

The sensors are 36-10-6-856-209 OEM BMW TPMS bought from APEX and have been working fine for the last 4 winters. No pressure info is displayed for any wheel with the error.

The question for this group is
Is this TPM Malfunciton error indicative of a faulty wheel sensor, or the receiver on the car? If it is a sensor, should the non faulty sensors display their pressure? Is there a way to find out which wheel has a faulty sensor?

Thanks

[White340]

If it's a faulty receiver then swapping the summer wheels on shouldn't work either after resetting.

In my case I never found out which one was bad but I think there are tools out there that figure it out.

I went to the dealer the week after replacing all of mine and they measured tire psi and tread by using a handheld machine and walking up to each tire and scanning it. So if one was bad surely this would figure it out. In my case I swapped all mine out due to guilt of buying replica ones off eBay. I don't want to have to deal with this again.

[FrenchBoy]

Thanks for the reply. I am taking my car to the dealer on Tuesday. Somehow, my advisor is telling me a regular tires shop cannot check the BMW wheel sensor signals, which I find odd. According to this other thread that just popped up, they can..

It's weird that a few of use are experiencing the exact same issue at about the same time, i.e. winter tires that have worked fine for years, TPMS malfunction with zero tire info, stuck at 49% when trying to reset it...

Originally Posted by White340

If it's a faulty receiver then swapping the summer wheels on shouldn't work either after resetting.

In my case I never found out which one was bad but I think there are tools out there that figure it out.

I went to the dealer the week after replacing all of mine and they measured tire psi and tread by using a handheld machine and walking up to each tire and scanning it. So if one was bad surely this would figure it out. In my case I swapped all mine out due to guilt of buying replica ones off eBay. I don't want to have to deal with this again.

[alex2364]

Originally Posted by FrenchBoy

Thanks for the reply. I am taking my car to the dealer on Tuesday. Somehow, my advisor is telling me a regular tires shop cannot check the BMW wheel sensor signals, which I find odd. According to this other thread that just popped up, they can..

It's weird that a few of use are experiencing the exact same issue at about the same time, i.e. winter tires that have worked fine for years, TPMS malfunction with zero tire info, stuck at 49% when trying to reset it...

Of course a dealer would say this. They want your business...

[FrenchBoy]

Update. Apparently, the battery was dead on two of my wheel sensors and the other two had low battery and were going to fail soon. Ended up changing all 4... $900 diag/parts/labor. Ouch

[Tintking]

Hello I’m having a similar issue. I just purchased a set of winter tires/wheels from a fellow forum member who had them on his 2018 M4. When I do the reset it acts like it’s trying to do it but it never gets off of 0%. The strange thing is that at the tire shop the guy could read each tire pressure with his scanner indicating that the sensor itself was working but not communicating with the receiver?? I suggested that maybe the batteries were low but he didn’t think so because his scanner was able to read the pressures instantly and he said usually if the battery is low it takes a while to connect. I’m wondering if you had the same situation or were they not able to even read the pressures with their scanner?

[FrenchBoy]

Originally Posted by Tintking

Hello I’m having a similar issue. I just purchased a set of winter tires/wheels from a fellow forum member who had them on his 2018 M4. When I do the reset it acts like it’s trying to do it but it never gets off of 0%. The strange thing is that at the tire shop the guy could read each tire pressure with his scanner indicating that the sensor itself was working but not communicating with the receiver?? I suggested that maybe the batteries were low but he didn’t think so because his scanner was able to read the pressures instantly and he said usually if the battery is low it takes a while to connect. I’m wondering if you had the same situation or were they not able to even read the pressures with their scanner?

Honestly, I do not know. I never actually took it to a tire shop and straight to the dealer. After you have tried to reset the TPMS and driven for a bit, it can take a while, my next guess would be to confirm that it is actually coming from the new wheels, i.e. swap to the summer set and see if it reads correctly.

Otherwise, dealer can read codes and check the battery levels.

Good luck

[White340]

Originally Posted by Tintking

Hello I’m having a similar issue. I just purchased a set of winter tires/wheels from a fellow forum member who had them on his 2018 M4. When I do the reset it acts like it’s trying to do it but it never gets off of 0%. The strange thing is that at the tire shop the guy could read each tire pressure with his scanner indicating that the sensor itself was working but not communicating with the receiver?? I suggested that maybe the batteries were low but he didn’t think so because his scanner was able to read the pressures instantly and he said usually if the battery is low it takes a while to connect. I’m wondering if you had the same situation or were they not able to even read the pressures with their scanner?

The last two seasons I had my eBay tpms on, it took longer than normal to register them. Like a few days. Not sure why but you might want to give it some time.