Originally Posted by
geargrinder
Damn that looks like an old-farts cell phone set to HUGE TEXT MODE. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW!?! HELLO!?!? CAN YOU HEAR ME!?!?
<holds phone up to ear in speakerphone mode so everybody in 20 foot radius can hear the call better than he can>
WTF is it with old farts and insisting on using the damn phone in speakerphone mode anyway....
anyway....
I'm gonna compensate for that by posting extra small.
Sure. Its possible the tires being low were the problem. If the computer reads 1 or 2 wheels going significantly different speeds than the rest of the car and it doesn't go away for sure it'll throw an error condition. That's how the basic TPMS thats in the M5's (and some euro optioned cars) worked... They'd have to have been REALLY LOW though. Like "that was really bad for your tires" low.
But SleepyShouter could be right maybe its just temperature/fluke and it'll come back...
Originally Posted by
mattmar1
04 and 05 e60's used a similar system, LTMS prior to TPMS, read WSS data for a single wheel difference and triggered the low tire fault. i think gg mentioned something akin to this in his post but i couldnt hear a word of the last half.
You guys rock
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BTW the RDS (proto-tire pressure system in euro cars and M5) worked by means of an antenna. Yessir, an antena in each wheel, readed by a wireless transducer in the wheel well. The rear right antenna also had to read the spare or it would trigger a fault.
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