Tire Pressure Monitoring System

[DeWitt Harrison]

Yeah, Dan, interesting and distressing at the same time.

Maybe the q-list could conduct an ad hoc focus group
to come up with an appropriate wake-up stimulus.
Air bag deployment would, for example, not make the cut
I'm thinking.

DeWitt Harrison
'88 5000CS
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dan DiBiase
  To: DeWitt Harrison ; lgregf at aol.com
  Cc: Quattro List
  Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:24 PM
  Subject: Re: Tire Pressure Monitoring System


  DeWitt Harrison <six-rs at comcast.net> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:35:47 -0400
    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.
    >

    If your system works like the one in my 2006 itinifnI, missing
    tire pressure sensors are ignored, are shown as 'blank' or
    'missing' in the info display and do not generate any alarms.
    Only a valid 'low pressure' signal will generate an alarm.
    When I fitted the car with winter wheels and tires, I went
    through an annoying process to be sure the new setup had
    TPMS so as to avoid bogus alarms. Total waste of time
    provided you are capable of measuring tire pressure all by
    your itty bitty self. ;-)

    These protect-you-from-yourself systems are growing ever
    more annoying. You should read what the automotive engineers
    have in store for your future. Just plain scary. Get this: tens
    of millions are being spent right now to develop a reliable
    system to detect 'driver drowsiness.' I guess there will be
    what amounts to a hand which comes out of the dash to
    administer a smart slap to the drooping driver. Except that
    the wake-up stimulus can't be so startling that the driver
    would overreact and crash anyway. Why are technology
    companies always working so hard to set themselves up
    for huge lawsuits?



  I'm thinking a little electricity through the steering wheel....? Shoot,
they already are doing that with heated wheels, just create a little
short-circuit when the driver nods off!

  One cool feature is the new Lexus LS with the auto parallel parking. It's
stupid and cool at the same time......

  Dan D
  '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6 w/manual parallel parking
  Central NJ USA