TPMS dropping connection on one tire

[ManiceArkold]

Hey everyone,

I've had my 22 GT since mid May and just over a week ago I got a tier pressure monitoring fault on the rear passenger side. It reconnected later but seems to disconnect everyday, typically after 30 minutes of driving. My car has 123,000km on it, and the tires were replaced when I bought the car and it functioned fine at the time so I'm not putting any blame on the dealer.

Is it possible the battery in the tps is dying but has enough juice to give a reading the car first starts?

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Thanks in advance!

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[jmcbrew]

Hey everyone,

I've had my 22 GT since mid May and just over a week ago I got a tier pressure monitoring fault on the rear passenger side. It reconnected later but seems to disconnect everyday, typically after 30 minutes of driving. My car has 123,000km on it, and the tires were replaced when I bought the car and it functioned fine at the time so I'm not putting any blame on the dealer.

Is it possible the battery in the tps is dying but has enough juice to give a reading the car first starts?

Has anyone else experienced anything similar?

Thanks in advance!

Could be the battery... or just a failing sensor. Mine has been giving me that message since I bought it at 16,000 miles (25,000km). I've got 103,000 miles (165,000km) now. It'll be fine for weeks or a couple of months... then it pops up that message. Sometimes I'll get that message more than once in a single day. I can't make any sense of it. Every time I get new tires, I think about having them replace it... but then I realize that it isn't bothering me that much.

You can get a new TPMS sensor on eBay for about $10. Knowing tire shops, they'll probably charge $50 for the sensor and $100 to install it.