Put some new tpms sensors in my winter wheels this year. OEM Audi/Porsche sensors. Problem is the Cayenne refuses to learn the new sensors. Have tried all combinations of winter/summer/all season tires and sizes. Many drives of 30 mins or more in "learning" mode. Nothing seems to work. The sensors in my summer tires were working just fine before I swapped to the winters.

I have checked the sensors with my Launch i-tpms programmer and can get the ID's, pressures, temp, battery information from all the sensors, so they seem ok and programmed correctly.

Suggestions on what to try next?

 

They may be the wrong frequency? Are the dual frequency sensors? If you have the build sheet it will tell you the frequency. I understand it usually matches the key fob, but thats just a rumour.


Here's mine as an example.
5D3. Carrier frequency 315 MHz with reduced transmission power for Japan
7K4 TPM Tire Pressure Monitoring 315 MHz

 

These are the units. From what I researched the RDE011 should work with a 2011.

 

So these are 433 MHz only. You may need 315MHz. Just a guess.

I had the same issue. I bought the car with a TPMS fault. I had to replace the 433MHz that the previous owner installed with 315MHz sensors. Worked straight away, no programming. Started learning as soo as the ignition was turned on.

I bought some similar to these.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005...origin_prod%3A

 

I believe your 2011 Cayenne is pre-433Mhz. Like James says, 315 is probably your huckleberry !

 

I've got a 2011 S and had the TPMS sensors changed a few years ago and they were marked 433 MHz.

 

And this is a good place to get your sensors from. https://www.tpms.com

 

The 433MHz work fine in my summer wheels.

 

Yep, it would be. But they won't ship to Canada. I asked.

 

As an update. I got my tpms programmer the other day. It can read the sensors in the wheels just fine. Gives me ID's, pressures, temps, battery condition. They also read the same as the sensors in the summer wheels, just with different ID's. So it seems the sensors are working fine. The Cayenne simply refuses to learn. Is there any way to do some kind of hard reset of the tpms system? I have a Launch x-431 bidirectional scan tool.

 

When I installed new sensors, it took quite a while for the car to sync up. 2-3 drives, each lasting about 30 minutes or more before the car finally "accepted" the new sensors. Haven't looked back since.

 

Did that once. Couldn't get them to work. Maybe the wrong selection of frequencies as the frequencies were changed around the same time my Cayenne was built....

Handed the issue over to my local tire shop. They sourced the correct sensors, woke them up and everything has been working for five years. IIRC, their sensors cost less than those from TPMS.

 

I've had this scenario multiple times over the years.

2014 CTTS. Added quirk is Porsche changed TPMS systems midway through MY 2014. Makes ordering replacement TPMS sensors tricky. Even when I supplied VIN, I'd get different answers as to correct sensors.

For a long time! I ran separate summer & winter wheel/tire packages, so swapped them 2x/year. Sometimes, after the swap, I'd get the "learning" message, then it would give up and there'd be the yellow warning icon about the TPMS for 6 months (on sensors that were under 5 years old and had previously worked). When I swapped back to other set, the TPMS worked fine. Weird thing is, at the subsequent swap, the TPMS worked (on the set that hadn't been working six months before!). No pattern I could discern. Mostly, the swaps went fine. This probably happened 3 or 4 time over the 10 years or so I did the seasonal swaps.

I never figured it out. I got tired of swapping wheels/tires every 6 months and now run Michelin PS4SUV tires on 21" wheels year round (with working TPMS).

Will be interested if explanation and/or solution found.