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JulesK Member Since: 07 Dec 2014 Location: Ceredigion. Posts: 1664 |
Hinchy have you a picture of the tyre valves when on please to get an idea of what's what?
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12th Feb 2019 6:44 am |
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JulesK Member Since: 07 Dec 2014 Location: Ceredigion. Posts: 1664 |
Thank you finding this very confusing, these replace the dust cap and read out screen is placed on dashboard, how does it get readings? WI-FI ?, Bluetooth ?
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12th Feb 2019 7:54 am |
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Lightwater Member Since: 21 Aug 2014 Location: Sydney Northern Beaches Posts: 4906 |
The TPMS has its own dedicated signal from each of the sensors. Maybe if you are at traffic lights & someone else has the same setup next to you there might be some false readings, but I doubt the signals would reach beyond 20 metres when it really matters when on the move.
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12th Feb 2019 8:07 am |
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SouthamFL2 Member Since: 08 Jan 2019 Location: Banbury Borders Posts: 432 |
I should imagine that it would work on the same principle as just about anything else, like your smart meter/weather station/ doorbell et al and transmit wirelessly on 802.11ac. Sensors are in the dust caps which measure pressure and beam it back to head unit. |
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12th Feb 2019 8:09 am |
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hinchy Member Since: 08 Jan 2009 Location: Stockport Posts: 779 |
He waffles on a bit at the start of the video but explains well.
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12th Feb 2019 9:21 am |
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SouthamFL2 Member Since: 08 Jan 2019 Location: Banbury Borders Posts: 432 |
Reminds me of the wireless doorbell that I bought from Lidl last summer - every time my Smart Meter sent a reading back to my provider (30 minute intervals), the sodding doorbell would go off! Took a few hours to pinpoint the cause of the issue, even involved swapping units out. In the end, they were deemed wholly unsuitable due to interference and returned for refund. |
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12th Feb 2019 9:35 am |
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JulesK Member Since: 07 Dec 2014 Location: Ceredigion. Posts: 1664 |
Smart meter !!!! We haven't got ordinary meters everywhere out here yet
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12th Feb 2019 10:11 am |
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Volrider Member Since: 14 Aug 2018 Location: staffs Posts: 217 |
I love You Tube, if you going to do a job you can guarantee some person somewhere has done it and it helps a lot, did the Blower fan and Resistor on a MK1 Focus the other week, didn't fancy the job but watching youtube showed it wasn't too bad to do. This video helps but I guess the secret is to get the tyre pressures correct in the first place! 2014 Freelander 2 XS TD4
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12th Feb 2019 11:19 am |
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Boxbrownie Member Since: 17 Mar 2019 Location: Looe Posts: 2053 |
Funny you should say that, our main car is an i3...and being EV is totally silent when running under 15mph or so, in our local town in the Summer it is an absolute nightmare with the holiday makers meandering across the single lane (one way traffic light system) almost no pavemnt high street, so installed a wireless doorbell under the hood, makes a definite "ding dong" but the silly gits still just wander across in front of us, firghtening it is. Anway...getting to my point....when we got the FL2 a few weeks ago I thought the doorbell on the i3 was getting a low battery as it kept going off when I wandered onto the drive, took me a few days to realise it was the FL2 remote locking key was not only unlocking the Freelander but operating the doorbell also Regards David Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me...... Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again...... |
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4th Apr 2019 4:01 pm |
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JulesK Member Since: 07 Dec 2014 Location: Ceredigion. Posts: 1664 |
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1st May 2019 6:44 pm |
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TheDuh Member Since: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Kuala Lumpur Posts: 23 |
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10th May 2019 1:25 am |
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Boxbrownie Member Since: 17 Mar 2019 Location: Looe Posts: 2053 |
I like the silver valve caps making them look a bit less conspicuous, but donβt like the main unit needing to have power all the time, I have seen some which the main unit is solar powered, I might give one of those a look because I miss the security of a TPMS, even though I think over the past seven or eight years that our cars have had them only once did a warning go off. Regards
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10th May 2019 9:48 am |
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dorsetfreelander Member Since: 20 Jul 2013 Location: Dorset Posts: 4354 |
Slightly off topic but sort of relevant. I was talking to a guy yesterday with a Honds CRV 17 reg. He has had the car for a few weeks and recently got a TPMS message up saying that he had a rear puncture so he stopped and sure enough the tyre was nearly flat. However he had damaged the tyre by driving on it so got a new tyre the same make and size as the others on the car. He then started to get various warnings coming up including low tyre pressure again (which he measured and found was OK) so went back to the dealer. The long and short of it was that the other rear tyre had 3mm less tread on it and this was causing the car to assume that something was wrong. Apparently Honda recommend replacing tyres in axle sets. They did make an adjustment to the ECU settings which made the messages go away. 3 x FL1 2 manual + 1 auto
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11th May 2019 6:40 pm |
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Lightwater Member Since: 21 Aug 2014 Location: Sydney Northern Beaches Posts: 4906 |
With the TPMS displaying pressure you will be surprised how much tyre pressure changes.
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11th May 2019 9:53 pm |
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