Career Technical Education Framework for California Public Schools
- T.PS.C.C1.1 Know and understand common environmental conservation practices and their applications.
- T.PS.C.C4.2 Demonstrate how to properly document maintenance and repair procedures in accordance with applicable rules, laws, and regulations (e.g., Bureau of Auto Repair [BAR], Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA], and the California Air Resources Board [ARB]).
- T.PS.C.C8.6 Maintain, diagnose, service, and repair under-vehicle systems and malfunctions.
- T.PS.C.C2.2 Demonstrate and use appropriate tools and equipment—such as wrenches, sockets, and pliers—to diagnose, service, repair, and maintain systems and components.
- T.KP.4.0.4.1 Use electronic reference materials to gather information and produce products and services.
Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems: Servicing and Repair
This project is a 4 lesson series focused on the function, diagnosis and repair of Tire Pressure Monitoring systems or TPMS.
By the end of the 4 lesson series students should know what a TPMS systems does, what the 2 different types of TPMS systems are, How to use the specialty tools required to retrieve TPMS sensor information, Replace TPMS sensors, and reset/flash the vehicles computer once the systems has been repaired.
The lessons in this series are:
Lesson 1 - History and purpose of the TPMS system
Lesson 2 - Function of the 2 types of TPMS systems
Lesson 3 - TPMS system diagnosis
Lesson 4 - Replacement of TPMS sensors
For this project ,students should have prior knowledge of tires and tire equipment used to service vehicle wheel and tire assemblies.
Materials needed for this project are:
- Projector
- Computer
- PowerPoint
- Task Sheet/Lab Sheet
- White Board
- White Board Markers
- Camera
- Vehicle information system (ALLDATA, Mitchell 1, Identifix)
- TPMS tools (specialty tools and programmer)
- Running Vehicles with TPMS system