Yes

 

See post #3!

 

I am sure there is a way, but any reputable shop will not do it. Why? The liability issue if you get in to an accident due to a low or flat tire.

 

Forgot to ask, are you using a phone charger? The cheap ones can interfere with the signal and cause false alarms.

 

ok. anyone with the equipment that would turn this feature off (and doesn't live in Australia!!!!) is welcome to send me a PM.

 

Highly unlikely any such hangs out on this forum let alone this thread.

 

I have a sneaking suspicion that there are one or two people in the US with the right equipment, and that maybe Cambo knows who they are, but they are probably a helluva long way from Texas!

 

I have the SDD software but don't know where in the software I am able to disable the feature. I wish someone would clarify how this can be done.

 

Have you tried forum member motorcarman (Bob)? He lives/works in Decatur, which is marginally closer to you than Australia.

 

This definitely can be done in SDD. You have to be in the coded engineering mode to disable that. As people have mentioned before, it is a preventative safety feature to have this working properly. For me it alerted me that the front left tire was low this morning. I drove it hard around a corner and definitely could tell that it was low, however when looking at it it didn't seem too low. The cold temperatures here in Washington DC definitely caused the air to drop at least 4 psi as I also checked the other tires and they were also about 2-3 psi low.

I did my programming for my upgrade of my audio system and took off the speed limiter. I did screw one thing up as fat fingered the size of the front brake which caused DSC, parking brake warnings to flash on. Luckily I figured that one out and put it back to the default setting. It just gets some use to how to edit the CFF files. It's not easy and quick way to do it as you have to go through scrolling though hundreds of settings. I bought the inexpensive Chinese VXDIAG VCX Nano corded adapter for the ODBII interface connected to my old Samsung laptop. It didn't work properly on my newer laptops as they are all Windows 10 64 Bit systems. You need Windows 7 32 bit system with a USB port. Cost me a little over 100 bucks and came with the older SDD software.

The funky thing with the coded access is that it only works once per session. So, warning, if you use a code and save the session, even though you go back to the same session, the original session is over and you are out of the engineering mode. Even if you use the same code it will not work again, so you have to start a new session. I probably wasted over $25 on a few codes as I thought I needed to get a new code with the same Seed number, but once the seed number is used, it only works once.

 

Yes. Tried him first (

 

Yeah I asked motorcarman, he's retired now and doesn't want to take on new things.

Well if you're up for a road trip, the other guys I know who can do this are in Charlotte NC, Tampa FL or New Jersey. Not exactly close to you...

 

lol...thanks cambo...It really blows *** that Jaguar service won't disable the dam thing for you. For my cayman, the Porsche dealership had no issues with doing it for me. I unplugged the unit and took it in for them to permanently disable it with their software. done. oh well...

 

For those of you who hate your TPMS, I have a distinct reason to have it and pay attention to it.

When I first got my car, I had weird TPMS issues. Figured out it was the Scosche cell phone power source. No issues since.

So over Christmas I was up visiting family. My TPMS was showing a low tire, but I thought it was only on because the cooler temps made it go off. A bit later I noticed the car handling funny. I pulled over and had a completely flat tire. Had to be flatbedded to a friend's parents' house.

I took it off the next morning and found a large piece of metal in the middle of my tread which caused the deflation. But because I ignored it for about 15 minutes, my entire inside sidewall was shredded, the inside of the wheel had road rash, and I was disabled and had to wait for a new tire.

My reason for saying something is that if I had looked at the tire earlier, I might have saved myself a lot of hassle by getting the tire patched instead of replacing it and uglying up my rim.

 

The TPMS can sure be problematic...
A friend, who I run the local Jaguar Club Slalom events with, has a late model XKR and he has been bedeviled by its TPMS. His dealer has had the car for months, at various times, trying everything to fix the problem, but without satisfaction.

It went so far as the dealer pretty much removing the interior of the car searching for failed electrical connections. They ended up replacing part of the harness and thought that was that.

No luck as soon after getting the car back the warnings showed up again.

Seems that even Jaguar can't always figure these things out.
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You mean the dealer, not Jaguar, but yeah - some dealers just can't do anything but routine stuff & parts swapping.

An indy is usually better if DIY is out.

 

Had the same problem with my XFR 2009. Fitted aftermarket sensors problem still there. At the insistence of Jag fitted official parts, still not fixed. Finally changed control module. All swell now. Full details on my page. Good luck.

 

The issue is that since the TPMS system seems to get intermittent issues, the drivers that get them start to ignore the warnings. Once a system gives too many false alarms, it's natural to stat ignoring them. Once you start ignoring something, it's easy to live without it. I wish that in these wonderful cars, Jaguar would have opted to use a different TPMS system.

 

Since the only time I've seen it throw a warning in a few years (after getting rid of the USB charger causing the problems) there was a REAL issue, it has my full attention and won't be ignored in the future.

 

I hope you didn't take my post as an attack on you. I was stating that the Jaguar TPMS leaves a little to be desired. Some drivers, not necessarily you, would prefer an option to disable it. No disrespect was intended.