Anyone Have Experience Of Repairing Pressure Sensing Valves In A 407?

[cRaig 273 1 Cars]

My parents are getting bored of replacing whole sensors and then getting them re programmed in their 407, now, as one of the valves has started leaking we were tempted to try a repair kit as found on ebay:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TYRE-PRESSURE-VALVE-REPAIR-KIT-PEUGEOT-207-307-407-607-807-508-1007-TPMS-SYSTEM-/221015435559?pt=UK_Cars_parts_Vehicles_Wheels_tyres_trims_Valve_Caps_ET&hash=item33758be927

 

Anyone have any experience of using repair kits on the valves?

Thanks

Craig

[Miles 331 1 Cars]

No help I know but I'd look and try to bypass the system, Most car's have issue's with these and Mini's are one of the worst

[ablister 31]

if the valve is leaking from the core, just replace that?

 

But, as above, i'd just disable the system

[cRaig 273 1 Cars]

Its not leaking from the core, rather around the body of the sensor I think. It is tempting to disable the system (my mate has pp2000) but to be honest it is quite useful, as my parents dont check the tyre pressures as often as they should, and it has prevented driving on at least one flat!

 

Craig

[johniban 59 1 Cars]

its the ally tube that cracks and leaks air,

just fit normal sensors and deprogram it they are crap

[welshpug 1,657]

How would I go about disabling the system? my sister's C5 has these and throws up a pressure fault even with correct pressures.

[cRaig 273 1 Cars]

Do you have access to PP2000? If not there may still be an option in the standard incar menu controls, I havent checked yet

Edited January 22, 2013 by cRaig

[S@m 156]

Think you would need Lexia, Mei (but then i know nothing of pp2000). I have seen it done on c5's before....i have also sold hundreds of the valves; crap things.

[johniban 59 1 Cars]

youd need diag box to disable it

[ORB 227 1 Cars]

We fit standard valves and disable it from the car, they are horribly unreliable

[Redtop 14 2 Cars]

There is 4 or 5 different places on the Ecu configuration that you have to change it to "not present". Check under all the ecu pages and also customer options on pps/ diag. Then just take it a good road test. It's been a while since I worked on them though. They do need a fair bit of pressure in the tyres, (2.4 bar iirc) and if they drop below that atall the sensors go off. There was also a problem with re learning new sensors in that some ecu's needed changed as they couldn't communicate. That was an issue on earlier cars though.