Hey All,
A friend of mine got a flat today on his JK and was actually able to see the pressure drop of a pound or so every few minutes until he was able to pull over. He put on the spare and headed on down the road. After a few minutes it recognized the spare as being a new road tire and everything was dandy.
The system worked as intended, but when he was relaying this story to me it got us both wondering how the system knows what tire is in what location.
I searched on here and looked in the owners manual and everything I read leads me to believe that the tire sensors transmit to the security system receiver. There's even a note in the manual that says some types of window tinting can interfere with the signal, which would seem to imply that all the wheel transducers are broadcasting to a receiver inside the vehicle.
If that was the case, I don't see how it could possibly know what wheel is in which location, or how it could know to not include whichever one happens to be hanging off the tailgate. Logically, it seems like there should be a receiver in each wheel well somewhere, but if that's the case, then what's the deal with window tinting?
How does this thing work?
A friend of mine got a flat today on his JK and was actually able to see the pressure drop of a pound or so every few minutes until he was able to pull over. He put on the spare and headed on down the road. After a few minutes it recognized the spare as being a new road tire and everything was dandy.
The system worked as intended, but when he was relaying this story to me it got us both wondering how the system knows what tire is in what location.
I searched on here and looked in the owners manual and everything I read leads me to believe that the tire sensors transmit to the security system receiver. There's even a note in the manual that says some types of window tinting can interfere with the signal, which would seem to imply that all the wheel transducers are broadcasting to a receiver inside the vehicle.
If that was the case, I don't see how it could possibly know what wheel is in which location, or how it could know to not include whichever one happens to be hanging off the tailgate. Logically, it seems like there should be a receiver in each wheel well somewhere, but if that's the case, then what's the deal with window tinting?
How does this thing work?