I’ve been reading up on the SmarTire system which is on my 2010 Vantage mounted under glovebox. I changed my cabin filters and saw the plug unplugged. I plugged it back and all of the lights blink amber I have the original set of wheels on shelf and I am running HREs so I haven’t figured out if/where the original sensors are. I read about the aftermarket sensors and cloning them so I will figure that out next year when I am ready to replace the tires.

My question here is why I don’t get a dash light with it unplugged? I see redpants sells the tpms eliminator but mine is simply unplugged with no lights or warnings on dash.

 

I unplugged mine years ago with no dash lights appearing!.

 

I also run HRE rims..I bought the cable from red pants..works great..

 

Are you sure they installed new TPS? I bought new wheels and tires, the wheel manufacturer mounted and balanced the new tires, TPS etc. I put the on the car and didn't get any TPS warnings. They paired instantly I assume.

 

Thx 07sportspack and Import. Strange how some need to redpants cable and others don’t.

 

I won’t know until next year what’s in the tires. I just was curious about the lack of dash lights when I unplugged the system.

 

Yea..mine threw the dash light until I added the cable..mines an 08…go figure..lol

 

Just started getting the tire code light on my 09. I'll try the unplug first.

 

I unplugged mine in 06 db9. No light

 

Pre 2008 you can just unplug with no warning. Onwards you need a plug in defeat or jump the 3 wires on the connector to disable. Easy to disable probe all 4 wires and connect the three that do not have power supply. So basically ground the 2 signal wires for warning and fault.

 

Just an fyi that this isn’t the case on my 10 Vantage. It is simply unplugged and no lights.

 

I never tried just unplugging it, I plugged the jumper in and never thought about it, until these threads come up and I think about putting these sensors in. If somebody wrote a cloning sensors for dummies page I'd put them in, I need 8 tires right now!

 

If you have the original sensors then life is simple to replace with aftermarket. There is a barcode on them and you clone the new one with it.

if not the tool can read the old one. I watched a couple of videos and read up on it. Seems a little quirky but do-able. I’ll tackle it next year when I get new tires.

 

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it - I've seen some throwing dash lights for TPMS, others that don't