Tpms Reset Not Working

mike07tahoe · July 17, 2008

HI, I HAVE AN 07 TAHOE LTZ. I'VE ROTATED THE TIRES, FOLLOWED THE INSTRUCTIONS JUST AS STATED IN THE OWNERS MANUAL SO THAT THE COMPUTER CAN "RELEARN" THE POSITION OF THE TIRE PRESSURE SENSORS. I CAN GET THE TRUCK INTO THE "LEARN" MODE (HORN BEEPS TWICE, PARKING LAMP LIGHTS) AND I HAVE TRIED INCREASING AND DECREASING THE PRESSURES OVER MANY DIFFERENT TIME FRAMES (SECONDS) AND PRESSURES. I NEVER GET THE FIRST HORN HONK TO INDICATE IT HAS LEARNED THE LF TIRE, AND THUS I CAN'T FOLLOW BY GOING TO THE RF, RR, LR TIRES. I'VE READ ALL I CAN ON THE NET AND SHORT OF GOING TO THE DEALER, DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO TRY. THANKS, MIKE

asilverblazer · July 18, 2008

Dealer had to reprogram mine. I got the learn mode two honks the first honk at the left front tire, and that was it. I am unclear on if there is a horn honk at each wheel or not. My conclusion now is no. Instead you must follow the parking lights that are on.

RVJ · July 18, 2008

I had to let quite a bit of air out of the first tire before it signaled me to go to next tire, after that everything went as it should have.

68haywagon · July 21, 2008

I've done three rotations now. There is a honk at every wheel.

Mike

Darkanion · July 21, 2008

I had to let quite a bit of air out of the first tire before it signaled me to go to next tire, after that everything went as it should have.

Same here. I had to have a tire replaced, a week or so ago. While they were at it, I had the guys at Discount Tire rotate the tires, too, since the new ones had already been on there for about 5k miles. Well, I didn't realize until this morning that they never did the re-learn. So, the fronts were reading as rears and the rears were reading as fronts. It seemed to take for-ever for the driver's front to finally 'register' with the system on the truck. After that, all went smoothly.

I've done three rotations now. There is a honk at every wheel.

Agreed. When it senses the change in pressure for "that" tire/wheel, it'll beep and you can move on to the next one.

asilverblazer · July 21, 2008

Well at least I know now I wasn't doing it wrong. It seems that it must not register quickly or have good reception or something to that affect that causes it not to recognize or respond to the sensors very quickly.

Darkanion · July 21, 2008

Well at least I know now I wasn't doing it wrong. It seems that it must not register quickly or have good reception or something to that affect that causes it not to recognize or respond to the sensors very quickly.

The first tire I did this morning... It took long enough that I was getting concerned that I was letting TOO MUCH air out of it. It took several seconds.

hubbycap · July 21, 2008

Mike, Welcome to the forum. You should get a honk after each wheel and then 2 honks at the end. Then you will have a TPM error on your DIC. Then you take it to the dealer.

mike07tahoe · July 25, 2008

Well, I finally gave up and had to take it to the dealership. Just hope I don't have to do that after every rotation. Thanks to those that wrote in with information. I'll try it again in a few months and see what happens.

minibike132 · July 28, 2008

Mike, Welcome to the forum. You should get a honk after each wheel and then 2 honks at the end. Then you will have a TPM error on your DIC. Then you take it to the dealer.

Yea what he said. Just to throw in my two cents there is SUPPOSED to be horn chirp verification at each wheel but any tech who has done a hundred of position learns will tell you that 10 of them did not verify, watch the marker lights, the corner that needs to be programmed next should be lit and once programmed should go out. Also just letting out air doesn't seem to work for alot of them, try removing the core till you get the verification, you will loose a considerable amount of air doing that so make sure a compressor is near by.

KCXLT · July 28, 2008

Mike, Welcome to the forum. You should get a honk after each wheel and then 2 honks at the end. Then you will have a TPM error on your DIC. Then you take it to the dealer.

Yea what he said. Just to throw in my two cents there is SUPPOSED to be horn chirp verification at each wheel but any tech who has done a hundred of position learns will tell you that 10 of them did not verify, watch the marker lights, the corner that needs to be programmed next should be lit and once programmed should go out. Also just letting out air doesn't seem to work for alot of them, try removing the core till you get the verification, you will loose a considerable amount of air doing that so make sure a compressor is near by.

I did my 08 Silverado last week and it went really smoothly. I got the first honk after loosing 5 psi. The next 3 were done about the same. Horn chirps after each tire. We did my friends 07 this weekend and couldn't get it to go past the first tire. He had the valve removed and the tire was almost flat. The warning light lit on the dash, so it saw the tire was low. We tried removing air, adding air and doing the first for 10 seconds and moving on, nothing seemed to work. One difference, he could access the Learn Tire mode using the DIC switches, mine doesn't have that, I had to use the Lock/Unlock on the key fob. I wonder if there is a computer upgrade that would make it work?