I actually did get the blinking light to go out after driving 20 minutes. Then it came back on in a few and stayed solid even after adding air. Do you have to shut engine before refilling tires? I drove home, didn't shut engine, and used air pump cabled to battery to correct pressure. The light remained solid and so far, no longer blinks at all. Haven't tried procedure again to get light to blink for reset, so don't know what will occur. But I don't want attempt until i know what i did wrong. Could it be the Pacific tpms sensors in my winter wheels can't be recognized? Sorry I'm newbie. 08 G37 6mt

 

Just swapped out my summer set and put on the winter set and the TPMS light did not come on. Drove for a while but nothing. Is it possible that the car stores two sets of sensors in memory? My winter set has the OEM TPMS that came with the car. My summer set has OEM TPMS I purchased.

 

I just registered mostly (for now ) for the purpose of thanking Modme for this TPMS retrain procedure.

It worked for me the first time I tried it on my wife's 2009 G37xS, on which I just installed winter wheels/tires (O.Z. Racing Botticelli wheels with Michelin X-Ice Xi2 winter tires).

FWIW, on this car, the wire to the TPMS connector on this car was white, not yellow. And the procedure worked with the engine already started for me. So these are the instructions I'm keeping (including more precise tire pressure information for some of the units):

1. Set the tires to the following pressures, they have to be exact: <TABLE><TBODY><TR><TH>Tire position </TH><TH>kPa </TH><TH>bar </TH><TH>kg/cm<SUP>2</SUP> </TH><TH>PSI </TH></TR><TR><TD>front left </TD><TD>240 </TD><TD>2.40 </TD><TD>2.45 </TD><TD>34.8 </TD></TR><TR><TD>front right </TD><TD >220 </TD><TD>2.20 </TD><TD>2.24 </TD><TD>31.9 </TD></TR><TR><TD>rear right </TD><TD>200 </TD><TD>2.00 </TD><TD>2.04 </TD><TD>29.0 </TD></TR><TR><TD>rear left </TD><TD>180 </TD><TD>1.80 </TD><TD>1.84 </TD><TD>26.1 </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
2. Locate the TPMS interface socket. This is a white female connector that is attached to a white (or yellow) wire attached to the OBD II wire loom under the dash right about where your left knee would be when sitting in the driver's seat. You may have to cut the tape that is holding the TPMS interface socket to the OBD II wire loom.
3. Attach a paper clip or wire into the interface plug.
4. Start the engine.
5. Tap the end of the paper clip or wire on any exposed ground (metal) 5 times within 10 seconds.
6. If you completed the previous step correctly then the TPMS warning light will start to flash slowly: you have activated the TPMS relearn process. If it flashes fast, that's not right. If yours isn't flashing slowly, then check your connections, turn the ignition off and start over at step 4.
7. Once you confirm the lights do not stop flashing (wait more than a minute; two minutes is good), start driving at at least 25 MPH until the light goes out. It could take as long as ten minutes.
8. Inflate tires to 230 kPa (33.4 PSI) so the light doesn't come on to indicate that some of your tires are low. You might be able to drive 6 miles or more before light will come back on due to low tire pressure. If the light does come back on due to low tire pressures, go ahead and reinflate them and the light will probably turn off later once the tire pressures are acceptable.

One other thing... I'll take this opportunity to recommend a really great digital tire inflator that I picked up a few weeks ago: the Steelman 97977. ToolTopia carries it for $144.99. Lots of money for an inflator, but this unit is really nice. In particular, it's really quick achieving an exact target pressure: squeeze the lever about halfway to release air or squeeze all the way to add air. Release lever to take a pressure reading. Amazingly quick to get exactly the pressure you want. Settable to all the common pressure units (I usually use kPa).

 

2 quick questions:

1. what happens with a tire rotation? does the dealer reset TPMS, or do you just get screwed up codes when the car thinks a different tire location is the source of the problem should one occur?

2. when you set your new rims to use tpms, too, does it deactivate the old set (winter/summer sets of rims)? Or will the original set work again once in range of the car because they are still sending their signal? I guess this would mean it's possible for 8 TPMS sensors to be registered to the car....?

thanks!

 

As far as I know, from my dealings with trying to figure out my tpms code and broken tpms:

1. My dealer did not reset TPMS, you just get the wrong readings in terms of the source of the problem. I found out the hard way . . . Whether that is true for every dealer I do not know. Best bet is to have them reset for you (mine asked for $50 for this 5 mins job) then re-pull the code.

2. Old set does not deactivate. Original set will work again once in range of th car.

 

You can go to Discount Tire and have them do it for free also. They have TMPS gauge thing they hold next to the tire and BAMM reset. You drive 5 min away and light is off.

 

Thanks guys!

 

Except if you have a 2010 1/2! Infiniti changed the TPMS units half way through the year and Discount doesn't have a program for the new units yet. Jet a heads up. This may not affect you though.

 

Glad to see it worked out for you. Thanks for registering and posting your experience.

 

I'm glad I'm not alone. This is the exact same thing that happened to me.
My bro works at Discount Tires and we've tried their tool numerous time with no success. The manager there said that their tool does not relearn the sensors to the car, they first have to be programer to the car by the dealer. Idk, but maybe that's why mine didn't work...

 

Some people were having problems with the procedures. I think the main reason is because there is a stored error code inside the BCM. I updated the instructions on the first page on clearing the codes.

Also, some people might be having trouble because one of their sensors is bad. The first post also has instructions on reading the error codes.


There is no reason for this procedure not to work for anyone, unless you have something wrong with either the system or a sensor. The procedure I posted is just an alternative method of putting the car in the same learning mode as the dealer's CONSULT III would.

 

Just to update with my experience. The light did come on after driving some more (I wasn't patient enough). So I started to reset the car into learning mode but had some trouble completing like others here. As I drove with blinking light for a while it's supposed to go off, then come back on but the car made a long beep about 2 sec. Then the light was steady lit. I kept retrying the process few times. Then I checked the pressure and set it to exactly what the DIY says then it finally worked. The lesson is that the pressure have to be pretty much exact, maybe for warm tire???

 

I recently installed some coupe 19's on my 09 sedan. I drove the car for 2 days before the TPMS light came on.

This past weekend, I tried following this procedure to reset the TPMS, but was unable to get into learn mode. However, my TPMS light now behaves differently;

Previously -- when I started the car, the TPMS light would blink for a minute or two, then go solid and stay that way.

Now -- when I start the car, the the TPMS light is solid the entire time and never blinks.

Obviously, something changed, but I'm not sure what. I also tried clearing the code per the updated instruction on the first page -- didn't seem to make a difference.

Just curious -- if the tire pressures are incorrect, will it not go into learn mode at all? Will try again this week.

 

nice write up!

 

Thanks for the write up.
Mine didnt quite work the original way. First i did everything like the main page said and the light just became steady all the time, so I set the pressure to the correct amount like first page said then START THE ENGINE light steady on, grounded 7 times and it started to slowly flash, waited couple minutes then went for a drive. After about 2.5 miles driving on highway light became steady and 10 seconds later went out. In about mile it came back on steady. I went to the gas station pumped right about of air on all 4 tires and went for a drive. About half mile later light went away and haven't been back since.