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Old May 21, 2009 | 10:23 AM
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I had my gauge cluster mess up on me and bought a new one out of a 07, Now its flashing Tire pressure monitor something error blah. I dont have tire pressure monitors so how can I get rid of this annoyance.
Old May 21, 2009 | 03:38 PM
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Old May 21, 2009 | 03:54 PM
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small piece of black electrical tape over where the light is

from the other cars ive dealt with, if it came with tpms, and you put wheels on it without tpms sensors, you either have to live with the light or cover it up, you might could pull the bulb out, but I dunno
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the tape would look ghetto and wouldn't work as the display on the cluster has to be reset cause of it. My car is 05 and does not have TPMS.
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oh, its a display and not a lighted icon? My apologies, both cars ive had with TPMS has little lighted icons for it. No idea on that one. My assumption is that its programmed into the cluster and there might not be anything you can do about it.
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"I dont have tire pressure monitors". If you have an '07, than yeah, you do. All '07 Mustangs and newer have TPMS."

So, are you saying you didn't bother putting TPMS sensors in your aftermarket wheels? Cause, we're gonna need more info than "Now its flashing Tire pressure monitor something error blah" before anybody can give you any advice.

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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by digitalcos
"I dont have tire pressure monitors". If you have an '07, than yeah, you do. All '07 Mustangs and newer have TPMS.

So, are you saying you didn't bother putting TPMS sensors in your aftermarket wheels? Cause, we're gonna need more info than "Now its flashing Tire pressure monitor something error blah" before anybody can give you any advice.
did you even read the thread lol. I have a 2005, and bought a cluster from a 2007.
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Jeez, sorry 'bout that.

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Good luck though.

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Old May 21, 2009 | 07:54 PM
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Apparently the indicator light is expecting to get information from the TPMS black box, which lives inside the SJB. I would imagine that your SJB does not contain that extra little gizmo.

I haven't done much more research than that.


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