Mumbles

So porsche expects you to renew the batteries within say two weeks as you cannot check your oil level ? no way to get the warning off the screen ?

Is this the same in the DFI engines ? 997.2

Cheers

RennlistTomE

$1300 for the TPMS transmitters?
Shall we assume that includes a set of new tires at no additional charge?

sandwedge

Can you confirm that these sensors come with two different frequencies? I just mounted a new set of wheels that came with sensors that are only 1.5 years old and they won't talk to my car. I've been through the set-up drill ten times over and it's no use. It gets to the "learning" point and then it's over. My dealer says I got unlucky and got the wrong frequency for my car. Hard to believe knock off sensors from Tire Rack will be an easier transition than a set of 1.5 year old factory sensors that came off a .2 car just like mine.

door2416

Hey Ptech1, Is there a way to turn off the learning message so I can check my oil level. I am running summer tires that do not have sensors.

ronmart

You are confusing the controller unit that we are talking about here with the valve kit that you have to replace whenever you remount the tires. The part for the sensor hasn't been available for less than $110 on any legit sources I've seen on the web. The valve kit can be found for as little as $30 each.

Quadcammer

While you're right that what might work on a 2011 may not work on a 2009, they are usually not model specific, but rather frequency specific.

All you need to do is figure out which one your car has, and you can buy the generic ones from tirerack, ebay or whatever.

py0413

$1300 for 4 TPMS sensors is just insane. Again there s the reason we call them stealerships.

Minok

$1300 is the parts ($400+) plus the labor to unmounted the tires, replace the sensors, remount the tires, and then likely balance the tires.

That does seem high though for the labor side. Consider a quality tire shop that does lots of Porsche work to have new sensors installed. It helps to keep track of when they are due to be swapped so you can put new ones in when you do the tire change near that time.

Mumbles

Balancing these wheels aint cheap.

mjsporsche

Yeah...about $100 give or take a few. I thinkthe cost of balancing is still reasonable. And we are not limited to dealerships to do that work.

Ptech1

There are different frequencies, but they only differ from year to year over wide ranges (more like model to model). It's possible that the new sensors may need to be programmed to the car manually if they are not being picked up by the system almost immediately (would require the ID numbers on each sensor). Or you may have just gotten 1 or more bad sensors...

Ptech1

Unless I'm missing something, you should be able to back out of the learning message when exiting the info screen as normal, at which point the warning "!" will stay lit.