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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 10:14 PM
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Is anyone familiar with adjusting the tire size setting with a programmer?

My 2003 dodge ram 1500 currently has 33 inch tires while the stock tires were about 30.75 inches. I have a Banks AutoMind programmer, and I am having difficulty in adjusting this setting. I was hoping somebody might be familiar with this task.

In my situation, I went through the process of adjusting the setting from 30.75 to 33 inches, and when the programmer attempted to adjust the speedometer, the process failed. I was given an error message saying "Cannot adjust tire height. No abs module present in vehicle."

I currently don't have any warning lights on the dashboard, so I'm not sure if it's the programmer or perhaps something with the truck, such as a fuse.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Old Mar 18, 2012 | 11:35 PM
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Apparently there is a range limit in the adjustment. Folks have had to fiddle with the settings to get the actual speed to align with the indicated. My 285/70s cause my speedometer to be 4.3% low. I just live with it. Easy enough to know that an indicated 76 is 80. The mph error is less at lower speeds.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 12:22 AM
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Cant tell you ??? Butt i have question about that programmer .im thinking of getting one butt is it worth it ???did you see a big difference in power????
 
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 02:17 PM
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No idea w/ the programmer you have. good luck.
 
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by jccourtney
Is anyone familiar with adjusting the tire size setting with a programmer?

My 2003 dodge ram 1500 currently has 33 inch tires while the stock tires were about 30.75 inches. I have a Banks AutoMind programmer, and I am having difficulty in adjusting this setting. I was hoping somebody might be familiar with this task.

In my situation, I went through the process of adjusting the setting from 30.75 to 33 inches, and when the programmer attempted to adjust the speedometer, the process failed. I was given an error message saying "Cannot adjust tire height. No abs module present in vehicle."

I currently don't have any warning lights on the dashboard, so I'm not sure if it's the programmer or perhaps something with the truck, such as a fuse.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!
Does it give you the option as to typing in Example 305- 70- 20. If it does, try that and see what happens, only using your tire numbers. Be careful driving you will be about 7% slow on the speedo,which is ticket territory in some places, and the percentage grows larger as speed increases
 
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Old Sep 4, 2012 | 03:52 PM
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Never even heard of that programmer. Hope you find a fix. If not ditch it for a SuperChips
 
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Old Nov 16, 2012 | 05:51 PM
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I've got a 2004 Ram Hemi in my Dakota and I can't even get to the point of entering the tire size. In the Predator Quick Adjust section as soon as I click on tire size I get the message "Error reading tire size parameter".
I just got done trying to correct my tire TODAY and am frustrated it doesn't work. So the speedo is off and can't be corrected.
 
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Old Nov 16, 2012 | 08:10 PM
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call banks and have them walk you through it
 
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 11:41 AM
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My question is that on th sc tuner, when it adjust the speedo for tire size. Does it also calibrate the odometer also? We did it on my dads 99 and the odometer is off by .4 of a mile
 
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Old Nov 17, 2012 | 02:08 PM
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It should because you're telling the computer to compensate for the bigger/smaller tires. It doesn't just change the cluster it updates the whole computer
 
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