Hi Guys,
Last night driving home the TPS light came on an of course all four tires are right on specificed pressures. I did a bit of research here and looks like another stupid, useless pain in the butt techie device designed to get us back to the Dealer service department for expensive do-nothing repairs.

one post noted that you can pass a ring (or donut) magnet over the tire stems where the sensors are housed and doing so will turn off the light on the dashboard. My question is how does it do that? Does it "scramble" the wireless transmitters so they no longer transmit to the monitor, or does that do something else?

i also read the service manual procedure to reset the whole system an it is rediculously complicated and requires a DRB III tool which is prohibitively expensive.

I also noted someone say that assuming there is nothing wrong with tire pressure, the system will turn itselff off (reset) after a few miles of driving. Is this true, or should I start thinking about pulling the instrument cluster out of the dash and removing the stupid light bulb????

-George-