TPMS - Good News! I actually works correctly!

[motoguy128]

Mine actually works! I have an appointment tommorrow at my "local" Nissan dealer (40 miles away) to look at the passenger airbag cover ot order parts, and the driver side view mirror has some slop in the hinge. Both minor.

I dropped my tire pressure to first 29psi, then 27, finally 24psi, after dirivng for a hundred yards at 25mph, it came on. I'm thinking, cool, it works. I ran a short errand, and when I came home I refilled it to 34.5psi (to match hte other tires at 36psi warm (I corrected by 1.5psi for the cool air in my comp. air tank). I drove less than a 1/4 mile and it went off.

I'll give Nissan a little credit, they are reconizing problems as they occur on the assembly line. I'm guessing the Quality Control is taking a sample of cars each week and driving them to identify faulty supplier parts such as the TPMS, passenger air bag cover, etc. My car was assembled in August.

One thing I learned, is that I don't have to worry about being a few psi low when there are wide temperature swings during the day and living with hard overfilled tires 90% of the time. I have crappy streets wehre I live, so the lower the better.

[versabundus]

How Many Miles? Mine worked perfectly until 5200 miles.

[motoguy128]

This is true. Only about 3500, but it's a lot of short trips, so the operating hours is probably close to 5000 more typical miles. I guess I'll just wait and see.

[kc5f]

I'm voting for trusting the information in the service bulletin at http://www.nissanhelp.com/Owne...8.htm

My V was built a few days after their cutoff date and the VIN number, correspondingly, is a few hundred higher. I now have 11,500 miles on it and the TPMS has worked properly, coming on when it should and never coming on in error. Hopefully, all newer V's will avoid the initial TPMS curse. (Now if they could only figure out the airbag cover problem...)

[versabundus]

I'm voting for trusting the information in the service bulletin at http://www.nissanhelp.com/Owne...8.htm

My V was built a few days after their cutoff date and the VIN number, correspondingly, is a few hundred higher. I now have 11,500 miles on it and the TPMS has worked properly, coming on when it should and never coming on in error. Hopefully, all newer V's will avoid the initial TPMS curse. (Now if they could only figure out the airbag cover problem...)

Thanks for the link. Good info.

[markvalpreda]

How Many Miles? Mine worked perfectly until 5200 miles.

That's almost exactly when mine decided to be part of the club! WTF? LOL

[proxim2020]

My light came on a few days ago. I've been riding around because I didn't want to have to stop and fill up the tires in the cold and wind (and hoping it would go off on it's own ). I finally aired the tires up today and after rolling about 30 feet, the light went off. Hooray, it works! My car was one of the ones that were manufactured in Nov, so hopefully my sensors won't go bad.

[OKVersa]

Mine worked until 800 miles.

[rwanttaja]

Mine worked until 800 miles.

I had a TPMS failure at about the same mileage, and a second one a thousand miles later. I've put on over 3,000 miles since without a third activation. Maybe they got it fixed the second time...I noticed the service order mentioned "repeat on same problem...customer recently bought car."

Ron

[BenDupre]

Mine was built before July 17, and I had the error flashing light foa about a month, but this was before the bulletin came out. The dealer replaced a sensor and it's working now. If the light comes on again, I'll have them check the bulletin. I have no idea what the BCM number is on my vehicla and the TSB is for fix-as-fail only.

Ben

[oleblue]

Mine worked, sort of until 7,987 miles. The sort of is, no error codes, would come on though for low pressure at 32.5. But the TPMS started flashing at 7,987 miles. It's in the shop right now, for transmission, passenager air bag, TPMS, door panel, headliner, hatch handle seal, poor MPG, Carpet.

Nissan can buy this car back if they like, wife would like them to.

[Julz]

I'm at around 9000 now, Light came on about 2500 mi ago, does anyone have any clue to getting that light out?working or not?

can't take the bulb out since the whole cluster uses LED's

[proxim2020]

I'm not sure if there's a way. If you did find a way to disable the light, there's probably another light to let you know that an LED has gone out

[motoguy128]

I'm at around 9000 now, Light came on about 2500 mi ago, does anyone have any clue to getting that light out?working or not?

can't take the bulb out since the whole cluster uses LED's

I must have missed something... why don't you just schedule an appointment to have it looked at and get it fixed. Sometimes you just have to work the system.

I checked, my VIN is past the cut-off date. Maybe that helps.

[JuneBug]

Where do you check your VIN number to see when and where it was assembled? I did a free check online, but only got that it was assembled in Mexico...I just don't know when. Thanks!

[kc5f]

http://www.nissanhelp.com/Owne...8.htm says VIN's before 3N1BC13E(*)7L360230 are affected. That would be enough, even without the manufacture date. (If yours is like mine, you had a piece of paper from the factory left under a seat with the date of manufacture and all sorts of barcodes and other information, but I suspect they weren't suposed to leave it in there!)

[JuneBug]

well mine ends in 381663, so I can assume that mine was built way after July 17...I can't find anything with the car paperwork or in the car that tells me when it was built, so I guess I'll just assume that my TPMS will work properly...and cross my fingers.

[BenzTech Gone Versa]

I had my light on for 3 months.first 2 months it was on and shut off for 2 days and came back on.then the last month it has been flashing.my tires are at spec.so the dealer just erased the codes saying that "you prob.hit a pot hole where the valve/sensor is".what b.s. its been off for 2 days now...lets see how far she makes it!