Wondering if anybody has had issues with a sensor twisting about 90 degrees and the car not being able to detect it? Just had a problem where a sensor scanned fine with the handheld scanner, but the car had no reading from it. The installer reset all the sensors in the shop and the car was able to read it fine, but once the sensor went to sleep it never came back. The installer replaced the sensor (noted the twist) and car detected it almost immediately (after a TPMS system reset). Wondering if the orientation of the sensor affects the switch that turns on the sensor while driving?

Tags: mx , 1-sensor , twisted

 Thanks for the interesting analogy! Can you elborbator as to why it wont work? Do you have knowledge of how the sensor is constructed? My thought was that the switch is triggered by centrifugal force which pushes a weight in a specific direction along a "track" which is parallel to the edge of the rim. If the track is not perfectly parallel the the weight is not fully pushed to the end and the switch is not triggered. Thoughts or further analogies welcome!