ATEQ VT31 TPMS Sensor Activation and Decoder Tool - Sensor Activation Coverage incl. 2020, Resets Domestic & Most European Vehicles up to 2020

I must admit the bad reviews on the ATEQ VT30 & VT31 had me scared but I'm sick of paying tire shops and/or the dealership $120.00+ a pop to activate my TPMS sensors or fix TPMS related issues. I placed my order last night 8-9PM PST 4JUN2018 and received my ATEQ VT31 just before 1PM PST 5JUN2018.I used the ATEQ VT31 in combination with my previously purchased ATEQ Quickset to turn off my TPMS light on a 2018 Subaru Forester XT Touring. The light came on after installing new high performance summer wheels and tires. I bought a summer wheel package including new OEM Subaru TPMS sensors from but the OEM Subaru TPMS sensors were not "triggered/awake" so my quickset couldn't read them. The ATEQ VT31 both woke the sensors up and then gave me the sensor ID numbers which I uploaded to my car using the ATEQ Quickset tool. When you purchase new TPMS sensors OEM or aftermarket most of the sellers fail to "wake up" the TPMS sensors which the ATEQ VT31 did for me in a matter of seconds. The tire shop that installed the new tires and wheels wanted $300.00 for TPMS and activation. I almost lost my mind and told them to pack sand. Thanks to google and Amazon I found the ATEQ VT31 and I didn't have to pay the Tire shop $300.00 or the dealer $120.00 for activation.The ATEQ VT31 worked perfectly right out of the box with the addition of a Amazon basics 9 volt battery and then it was a 100% success for my application. It literally worked perfectly for me upon first use on each and every wheel and sensor. :)

Could easily lead you to replacing a good tpms. I checked the new tpms while it was still in the "cardboard box" and still wrapped in "plastic" with the VT31. Triggered fine and read the id/temp/pressure/battery. Proceeded with the installation....jack the car up, unmount the tire, remove the valve core, break the tire bead, remove the old tpms, install the new tpms, inflate tire, mount tire, lower car. Check the tpms with the VT31...WHAT....no sensor detected. Jack the car up, umount tire, remove valve core, break tire bead, remove the new tpms, check with the VT31 if tpms is okay...WHAT....tpms triggers and the VT31 sees the id/temp/pressure/battery. Trigger the old tpms...super WHAT....the old tpms is good....id/temp/pressure/battery all good. So reinstall the new tpms but before inflating tire....no sensor detected....push tire bead to expose the tpms...VT31 triggers the tpms. Not able to trigger the tpms when tpms is inside tire. That's odd. Walk over to the neighbor's RAV4...triggers all of her tires without a problem. Walk over to the neighbor's Tundra...triggers all of his tires. Contacted ATEQ...recommendation to update...okay...updated...still no sensor detected on my RX400h....put in a new 9v battery...still no sensor detected when it's installed. ATEQ says it's an interference problem and that since it was able to trigger the tpms on the Tundra and RAV4 that there's something wrong with the tpms and not the VT31. Of course since I'm beyond the 30 days, JBTools says it's not their responsibility. ATEQ says I need to discuss with JBTools unless I'm willing to pay for the repair if there's nothing wrong. Kind of a useless tool if it can't trigger the tpms when the tpms is inside the tire. I proceeded with the installation of the new tpms....then tried to load the new tpms id into the ecu with ATEQ's Quickset....problems with the Quickset...that's another long story. After a lot of going back and forth with ATEQ without any success...found a posting here on Amazon about using an obscure setting for Toyota to get Quickset to work. Got the new id into the ECU and the car sees the new tpms. Just not with the VT31. Out of curiosity, I ordered an Autel TS408pro. It arrived in two days...amazing Amazon...charged up the lithium battery....walked around my RX400h and all five tires triggered with the Autel. Tried the same with the V31 and only two out of the five triggered. Did this numerous times and different times of the day...position of the sun...position of the moon...in the rain...in the sun...night..day..the Autel consistently triggers all five tpms while the VT31 triggers only two out of five. Maybe the VT31 is under powered with the 9v battery since the battery indicator shows 2/3 with a new battery. Will tinker and report back. Seems like no one is selling the VT31 at this time.

I picked this unit up to make life easier when switching between Winter/Summer tires, and doing my own tire rotations. Out of the box, it was easy to connect to a PC and download the current software from the ATEQ website. They have tons of info to refer to, and if you still had questions, they have a great YouTube channel and even still, live customer service. I called them with some obvious, basic questions, and they were helpful and responsive.Flawless.

I was able to read the sensors on my 2012 Subaru Outback but I did find a few rather annoying issuesFor $100 I'm extremely dissapointed it doesn't have any kind of back-light, and then compounded by the fact the contrast resets every time you turn off the device means it's somewhat annoying to use.The other issue I had, sometimes it takes multiple attempts to read the sensor. I'm not sure if that's because mine (to the best of my knowledge) are ~7 year old original to the car and wearing out, something about the reader, or local interference. It didn't seem to follow any pattern, sometimes reading the same sensor more than once it'd read perfect then fail to read a few times, then read fine again. It's an inexact science at best.The other thing I see is the graph suggests that a new, name-brand 9V battery was about 2/3 full out of the package - not sure if the meter is a bit off or it sucks power that fast...the batter compartment is fairly large they could have put in several AA's instead of a 9V. I may look at getting one of the Lithium microUSB rechargable "9v" things and a Qi wireless charger if it turns out the battery is really used up that fast...hopefully then I could just drop it in a charger pad.I do see it's got a mini-USB port that I presume is for updates but I haven't attempted to run any kind of update on it yet. I did try powering it from the USB port and it doesn't seem to run the device, you really need the 9V battery.I will say it's the least expensive tool I've found for sale to dump the TPMS sensor data, and it did seem to work.