Tire Pressure Monitoring System

[Scott Phillips]

Guys, 

There are two different types of monitoring, direct and indirect (direct
is for dealer add-on's) indirect is a computation thru the car's ABS
(Correct Brett), it calculates the rotational difference and light up
the light of the wheel that falls out of "spec" as a low pressure wheel
spins at a different rate than a properly inflated one. 

The direct monitoring type, you would see a pressure transmitter around
the valve stem on the car now, if it's not there then you have indirect
monitoring. If you do have direct monitoring, you should be able to
"disable" it via VAG-COM should you choose to install different wheels.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
On Behalf Of Brett Dikeman
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 11:40 AM
To: lgregf at aol.com
Cc: Quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Tire Pressure Monitoring System


On Oct 23, 2006, at 8:35 AM, lgregf at aol.com wrote:

> Folks, does anyone know a way to turn off the TPMS in a 2006 A6?  I  
> want to install winter tires & wheels but also want to avoid the  
> cost of the additional transmitters.

I thought it was ABS (wheel-speed) based?  The folks have one, and I  
saw no mention of transmitters in the manual.

Brett

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