Are these tires OEM? Looks like the OEM tire coding somehow glitched, or a sensor comm was lost after the repair (car “woke up” when the tire was removed from car and the TPMS system did not detect the sensor).

Dealer will reprogram the OEM tires to car.

 

Tires are OEM winter package. This incident was months after a tire repair, and my local BMW Service Center was not able to recode the repaired tire (I suspect a lack of skill, but don't know that for sure—is it possible to recode after a tire repair?).

This incident happened when I did nothing to the tires at all. I stopped, charged, headed home, and got this alter. It's been months since anyone has touched the tires. The tire pressures all look good.

I'm suspecting a TPMS glitch, but it seems very weird.

 

Just curious if it matters that the car displays the exact model/brand of tire you have? What is the advantage?

 

The i4 TPMS is “intelligent” enough to detect the exact tire brand/size when coded to it - tire specs then used to calculate wear and economy more precisely.

This is how you know if the tires are OEM or aftermarket - can’t code aftermarket tires.

 

Interesting.
My winter tyres were not OEM, and thus could not be detected automatically, so I did configure the car with manual size. When I switched back to the OEM summer tyres, I did reconfigure the car to automatic again to detect the tyres, but the car has never been able to properly detect them again. Does someone knows how that brand/size detection works exactly? I can understand pressure and temperature detection, but brand/size has to work another way.

 

Check out the bulletin from this reply from a while back:

https://www.i4talk.com/threads/tpms-recognition-after-tire-repair.11221/#post-231763

 

I replaced my rear tires and set them up manually in idrive. About a week or so later, the same thing happened to me. I just entered the info manually and has been fine for the past few months.

 

Nothing ever popped up in the car, but the App notes that one tire is not recognized as OEM. It’s the original tire, but just had a flat repaired in October. And it didn’t register in the app until one of the more recent updates. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

I was told that a zero-PSI situation for more than 2 minutes resets the programming. It's apparently possible to reprogram, but my Service Center couldn't get it to work.

 

For what it’s worth I’ve been unfortunate enough to have gone through a few replacement wheels, and separately tires on my i4. All with the same original wheel and tire models (859m and Hankook Ventus S1 evo3). Always done at my dealer and each time they couldn’t figure out how to program the tire model after it reset. Now it no longer shows the model of tire or condition in iDrive or the MyBMW App.

Not a huge deal but kinda annoying.