Description

DESCRIPTION





A Tire Pressure Monitor (TPM) indicator is standard equipment on all instrument clusters. However, on vehicles not equipped with the TPM system, this indicator is electronically disabled. This indicator is located within the odometer Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD) unit. On vehicles equipped with an optional reconfigurable VFD unit, a vehicle icon with tire pressure data for all four tires may be displayed in the reconfigurable VFD. The reconfigurable VFD is also capable of displaying textual messages identifying the location of a tire with low pressure as well as diagnostic messages for certain faults in the TPM system.

The TPM indicator consists of a stencil-like cutout of an icon that represents a cross-section of a tire with a centered exclamation point in the VFD unit. The odometer VFD unit is soldered onto the instrument cluster electronic circuit board, and is visible through a window with a smoked clear lens located on the lower edge of the tachometer gauge dial face of the cluster overlay. The dark lens over the VFD prevents it from being clearly visible when it is not illuminated. The TPM indicator appears in an amber color and at the same lighting level as the odometer information when it is illuminated by the instrument cluster electronic circuit board.

The TPM indicator is serviced as a unit with the odometer VFD unit in the instrument cluster.