T6.1 Tyre Pressure Monitoring System Activation (Indirect TPMS)

Just got around to doing this after years of owning it. It worked for me but I had to do what sam_watson did with the l2 coder to get byte 0 to work and be able to reach the higher byte's.

Thanks for sharing this - Top work :thumbsup:

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This is the details for activating indirect TPMS on any T6.1 vehicle that didnt get it from the factory (huge credit to @mmi for his assistance on this)

Firstly we need to understand what TPMS is, there are two types :

Indirect TPMS - This uses the ABS sensors to measure wheel rotation speed and will give you a dash warning light if any one of the wheels starts to lose pressure (causing that wheel to rotate faster relative to the other wheels) no pressure measurement is taken from the tyres

Direct TPMS - This uses a sensor inside each wheel to directly measure the current tyre pressure and temperature and displays these values inside the vehicle, a drop in pressure in any wheel/s will trigger an alert on the instrument cluster and the infotainment screen


Secondly we need to take backups of the vehicle configuration before we begin, always always take a full scan of the vehicle and save somewhere safe so you have a baseline of settings and things can be reverted if needs be
T6.1s use adaptions channels more than ever as well as basic coding so its important to do a full auto scan AND admaps so you have all the info to fall back on, it does take a little while to complete these scans but it will be a well spent half hour if you run into problems in the future doing this or any other mod !
Hi everybody,
In the end I additionally (to the mentioned coding) needed to remove TMPS receiver unit fuse (nr. 52 I guess). Otherwise it always goes back from "indirect screen with SET button" to the direct system screen with 4 tires pressure screen...
 
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