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    Suspension Oddity or very sensitive?

    I learnt something new about D4 suspension during our club trip to Eucla/Nullarbor Caves.

    At the end of day 2 on site the fuel pumps broke down at Eucla and I was forced to go on about 10 km to the border servo where I aired up (we had been on gravel roads for almost all of the day).
    After leaving to head back to Eucla I got a warning beep from the GAP Tool and a fault code "C?A 07-62 Cross Articulation", and advice "suspension fault max 50 kmph".
    After 2 clears, following which each time the fault returned, I followed instructions and tootled back under 50.
    At Eucla it transpired after a while that I had a slow leak in the front drivers side tyre. Changed the tyre and hey presto - no more faulting. On returning to Fremantle found out that the tyre had sand in the beading and a slow valve leak.

    I never knew that the suspension system was so sensitive.
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    You're not the first person to get the fault when 1 tyre is soft. The differing wheel speeds, steering angle and suspension heights all have a part in the algorithms.
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    Yeah, it's happened to me as well.

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    One of the earliest incidents that I rcall was a persistant fault on a new RRS. Evetually it was spotted that it had been fitted with 1 D3 wheel or tyre at the factory, being a 55% profile instead of 50% profile tyre.
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    MIL has a BMW with a tyre pressure alert that periodically activates but no TPMS and I’m sure it just picks up a signal from the ABS and produces a warning. Very low profile tyres so must be incredibly sensitive to any diameter disparity.

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    My L405 tells me on every start-up that the spare is low pressure even though there's no sensor on the spare nor a receiver for the spare, but that's a different oddity.
    MY21.5 L405 D350 Vogue SE with 19s. Produce LLAMS for LR/RR, Jeep GC/Dodge Ram
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