TPMS Sensor Antenna

[Perf]

Does the 2007 Cayman S have 4 TPMS Sensor Antenna, one for each tire? Like many other owners

I have aftermarket wheels and rims in my 987 and I failed to have the TPMS sensors installed. I have

considered building a small transmitter that will generate the correct frequency to the TPMS Antenna.

This would turn off the annoying TPMS light on the dash.

Any thoughts?

Regards

[JFP in PA]

Does the 2007 Cayman S have 4 TPMS Sensor Antenna, one for each tire? Like many other owners

I have aftermarket wheels and rims in my 987 and I failed to have the TPMS sensors installed. I have

considered building a small transmitter that will generate the correct frequency to the TPMS Antenna.

This would turn off the annoying TPMS light on the dash.

Any thoughts?

Regards

I believe there is only one antenna on your Cayman, but the system is expecting to see signals from four transmitters, one in each of the wheels, so you would need multiple signal sources. Might be cheaper to just put the sensors in the tires.............

Noted in passing, with a caution because it would be defeating a Federally mandated safety system, which has lots of negative implications, but the TPMS system can be turned off; only no shop will do it (or explain how it is done) for liability reasons, which would also apply to the car's owner if they did it themselves.

[Chris_in_the_UK]

There are 4 antenna's, one for each wheel - they are located behind the plastic wheel arch liner.

 

Any decent indépendant Porsche garage can turn it off.

[JFP in PA]

There are 4 antenna's, one for each wheel - they are located behind the plastic wheel arch liner.

 

Any decent indépendant Porsche garage can turn it off.

 

Welcome to RennTech :welcome:

 

Unfortunately, your response is misleading.  Here, the potential liability issues with disabling Federally mandated safety systems is established "black letter law".  Shop owners like myself have been copiously warned about our liability exposure should we disable one of these system and the car is subsequently involved in a serious crash.  There are already cases where the shops have been sued by the very people that requested the system be disabled, and the shops were found liable due to "superior knowledge" of how these systems work and their potential for causing accidents.  And individual's that helped a friend disable them have also been held liable.  So I stand by my earlier comment; most (if not all) shops will not help in this effort.

[Chris_in_the_UK]

I live in the UK - is sometimes done on request without issue.  TPMS was only recently mandated in Europe and the legislation is not retrospective so cars that have it fitted prior to this have it as an 'optional' rather than 'mandatory' feature.

[JFP in PA]

I live in the UK - is sometimes done on request without issue.  TPMS was only recently mandated in Europe and the legislation is not retrospective so cars that have it fitted prior to this have it as an 'optional' rather than 'mandatory' feature.

 

Here they have been mandatory safety equipment for many years (since 2006).

[987_RDC]

You can find articles that outline how to disable the TPMS.