Troubleshooting Strategy

TPMS TROUBLESHOOTING STRATEGY

Use these steps to plan your diagnostic strategy. If you follow them thoroughly, you will be sure that you have exhausted most of the possible ways to find a TPMS fault.
1. Gather information about the problem from the customer.
2. Verify that the condition described by the customer exists. If the condition matches a symptom listed in the TPMS Symptom Chart (Refer to Symptom Chart), execute an inspection procedure for the symptom.
3. Check the vehicle for any TPMS DTC.
4. If you cannot verify the condition and there are no TPMS DTCs, the malfunction is intermittent. How to Cope With Intermittent Malfunctions.
5. If there is an TPMS DTC, record the number of the DTC, then erase the DTC from the memory using the scan tool.
6. Recreate the TPMS DTC set conditions to see if the same TPMS DTC will set again.

- If the same TPMS DTC sets again, perform the TPMS diagnostic trouble code procedures for the DTC. Refer to Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) .

- If you cannot get the same TPMS DTC to set again, the malfunction is intermittent. How to Cope With Intermittent Malfunctions .