Can you confirm your 2025 Bronco Badlands SAS has TPMS?

[Fordified1]

Yeah, I’m at the bringing it to the dealer stage. Have an appointment next week. Tried everything, nothing worked. I’m under extended warranty, so it should be painless, lol. Once again thank you for all the help you have given me and others on here!!!

I’m at that stage also and still under 3 - 36 warranty. 1 wheel/tire swap and two 5-tire rotations and the Bronco always re-learned the changed TPMS location within minutes of driving. This last new tire installation (4 tires) and it’s reading the fronts because their location stayed the same but not the rears. Re-set with scan tool and battery disconnect and neither worked. It’s actually reading the spare as my left rear (air pressure difference confirms this)
And yes thanks @Ducati1098

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[Baja Bronco]

I’m at that stage also and still under 3 - 36 warranty. 1 wheel/tire swap and two 5-tire rotations and the Bronco always re-learned the changed TPMS location within minutes of driving. This last new tire installation (4 tires) and it’s reading the fronts because their location stayed the same but not the rears. Re-set with scan tool and battery disconnect and neither worked. It’s actually reading the spare as my left rear (air pressure difference confirms this)
And yes thanks @Ducati1098

Mine was a funny “failure”. Started with Discount Tire transferring my sensors and tires over to new wheels. Went down to Baja for a 7 day trip. Starting the second day, the sensor failed. Then around 2 hours later it came back on, very weird. It basically continued to do that for the day until it failed completely. I figured Discount did a bad install, took the tire to them, they installed a new sensor, came home, put it on the Bronco, no reading. So then I tried a street tire / wheel that I know is good, nothing. Hoping the dealer can fix it quickly.

 

[userdude]

I have a 23 Sas and had at least 5 five tire swaps; they've never had an issue with the sensor. Ford did one and the others were a lube place. I remember once they did something where the signal lights flashed and horn honked or something, and they said it was for the sensor, but then I think they said they didn't have to do it after all. HTH! lol

To me it sounds like you either have a bad sensor, a misconfig or there's a problem with the antenna. Maybe you just didn't let it drive long enough to actually reset (that's happened on my Chevy pickup, took like 30 miles). The tool is cheap, so I'd probably try it that way and if not, bring it in for service.

 

[Fordified1]

Mine was a funny “failure”. Started with Discount Tire transferring my sensors and tires over to new wheels. Went down to Baja for a 7 day trip. Starting the second day, the sensor failed. Then around 2 hours later it came back on, very weird. It basically continued to do that for the day until it failed completely. I figured Discount did a bad install, took the tire to them, they installed a new sensor, came home, put it on the Bronco, no reading. So then I tried a street tire / wheel that I know is good, nothing. Hoping the dealer can fix it quickly.

Well your story is funnier than mine. I suggested to my tire guy he must have broken 2 of them so bought new sensors and took them to him. He happily broke down both tires and showed me they were in fact not damaged. Then went ahead and installed 2 new ones, did another scan tool reset and sent me on my way. It’s a local small shop, great guy, really hated suggesting he broke them. He says take it to Ford. I of course apologized for wasting his time on a Saturday morning. He had taken my old tires as trade for the labor, so I had not spent a dime.

 

[bgr33r]

I’m at that stage also and still under 3 - 36 warranty. 1 wheel/tire swap and two 5-tire rotations and the Bronco always re-learned the changed TPMS location within minutes of driving. This last new tire installation (4 tires) and it’s reading the fronts because their location stayed the same but not the rears. Re-set with scan tool and battery disconnect and neither worked. It’s actually reading the spare as my left rear (air pressure difference confirms this)
And yes thanks @Ducati1098

Mine was a funny “failure”. Started with Discount Tire transferring my sensors and tires over to new wheels. Went down to Baja for a 7 day trip. Starting the second day, the sensor failed. Then around 2 hours later it came back on, very weird. It basically continued to do that for the day until it failed completely. I figured Discount did a bad install, took the tire to them, they installed a new sensor, came home, put it on the Bronco, no reading. So then I tried a street tire / wheel that I know is good, nothing. Hoping the dealer can fix it quickly.

In my troubleshooting I realized a few related things:
1. When I left the tire shop the screen displayed 4 tires with 4 pressures. ~5 min later I got an error with one of the wheels. I realized later that my spare tires pressure was ~5-10 lbs higher than the other tires. But that high pressure was not displayed on any of the wheels on the TPMS pressure screen, and during the error one wheel was '--' and not displaying. I might expect 4 mismatched tires pressures to mess up calibration.
2. 24 hours later I set the tire pressures to the same level, drove a little while to 'wake up' the sensors, then entered 'training' and let a little air out of tires to 'activate' the sensors in order (FL, FR, RR, RL). The fronts registered (and were previously rear tires). When I got to RR (the old spare), it did not register. I tried this multiple times and even drove around longer to 'wake up' the spare sensor. Over 3-5 attempts the rear right old spare never registered when I let air out of it. I even had to refill air in it a couple times because I let too much air out trying to activate the sensor. This is about when I gave up last time.
3. Later I went back to the tire shop and asked them to check the sensors. Now and at that time, all 4 of the original wheels were rotated but back on the vehicle (and the 'old' spare was still the spare). In testing, all 5 wheels sensors displayed unique IDs, and measured pressures, including the spare I returned to the back. All five sensors are operating on the same wavelength as well. The spare tires sensor responded without me having to drive on it or let out air to 'wake it up' as mentioned in other forum posts.
4. A TPMS-19 tool I received later registers each of the current wheels in their correct locations on the TPMS screen without me needing to let out air (and it's much faster!). I know the wheels are reporting the correct locations because I've adjusted tires pressures 'live' and seen the correct wheel changing. So right now it's working as it should... but I don't have the spare rotated in. The TPMS-19 tool has as single button to activate the sensor - there is nothing involving the Bronco's computer system or setup - this should be obvious but sharing in case others are troubleshooting and haven't bought the tool yet.

Hypotheses:
1. The computer doesn't know the spare is part of my 'system'
2. I need to disconnect the battery to reset (did not try yet with the spare in place). But this doesn't sound right - shouldn't the system just pick up the tire?

I'm under warranty, but also not planning on rotating the spare back into on these tires (I've driven too far and worn down the other tires more than I'm comfortable). Relatedly, I hope these tires exceed 35k miles... so I don't know if I'll ever track this down completely.

 

[bgr33r]

I have a 23 Sas and had at least 5 five tire swaps; they've never had an issue with the sensor. Ford did one and the others were a lube place. I remember once they did something where the signal lights flashed and horn honked or something, and they said it was for the sensor, but then I think they said they didn't have to do it after all. HTH! lol

To me it sounds like you either have a bad sensor, a misconfig or there's a problem with the antenna. Maybe you just didn't let it drive long enough to actually reset (that's happened on my Chevy pickup, took like 30 miles). The tool is cheap, so I'd probably try it that way and if not, bring it in for service.

FYSA, when the training program is started the horn goes off at the start, and then for each calibrated sensor as you walk around the vehicle. and again at the end to signal a completed program. I interpret that your shop completed this training program.

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