Re: Mandrus Rotec INSTALLED!! Early pics
Many and Great Thanks, ATX SRT-6, for sharing this info about your replacement TPMS sensors! Please update when you get those Schrader E-Z Sensors working in your Crossfire! Showing that TPMS sensors can be cloned to work on our cars will be a substantial contribution to the community. At least that part which wants to have a functioning TPMS.
The E-Z Sensor 33500 just came to market in August, and I had not picked up on its availability until your report. It's a neat solution for Crossfire folk who don't care to be taken advantage of by Chrysler dealerships charging an hour labor just to make the car relearn TPMS sensor IDs. If they even have the equipment and knowledge to do that. The "D" at the end of 33500 might mean it was packaged or sold through Discount Tire. That E-Z Sensor looks as close to a universal TPMS replacement sensor as anyone will provide, since it can be set up (programmed) to replace either of the sensors used in Crossfire (or nearly any other light vehicle in the world). AND it can be cloned to use the ID of the old sensor which the car system is still looking for!
A couple other Forum members, onehundred80 and KDW4Him, have shared best info about TPMS and I will put what I am finding over on their threads, but your discovery and verification of this clonable sensor will be a great addition.
Another aspect I am tracking is how to clone an old sensor, even after it has stopped transmitting to the car system, due to a low battery. My own car has had the TPMS light on for over two months, even through getting new tires installed, since the (otherwise fine) tire store didn't know how to replace my sensors. Their shop TPMS expert used a Bartec TPMS scan tool to check sensors and reported the two rear sensors were DEAD, but the tire store didn't have the right parts and equipment to replace.
Took the car back to the same shop yesterday and asked them to try using a TPMS magnet to trigger sensors which were not reporting. All four managers / techs in the store said "it doesn't need magnets, only Cadillacs and Camaros" but tried it, anyway. And sure enough, when triggered with a magnet, the two rear sensors responded. So those could be cloned by electronic copying, even after the car system saw them as dead.
Which goes along with what a Bartec rep told me, often sensors can be read for a while after the car system can't see them, since handheld tools are so much closer to the wheel sensor transmitter.
Thanks again, please confirm your cloned sensors work when installed!
Clint