The difference a door zone sensor makes on a 2015 Thyssen

I worked on a 2015 Thyssen in a 12-story building downtown for years. Before we swapped the door zone sensor, it had a nasty habit of stopping a few inches off level maybe once every 40 trips. After we put in a new inductive sensor (like $60 part), it's been dead on for over 3 months now. No more adjusting the leveling every single week, which used to eat up my Tuesday mornings. The old sensor was just worn down from vibration, nothing fancy. Has anyone else seen a big jump in reliability from just swapping one sensor like this?

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the_uma1mo ago

Has a friend of yours ever had one of those 2015 Thyssens with the fuzzy zone sensing? My buddy at a different building had the exact same issue where his car kept landing high by half an inch, drove him nuts for months. He finally swapped his sensor and it's been smooth sailing ever since, just like you said.

oliver_mitchell1mo ago

... wait, half an inch? You're telling me a sensor swap fixed a half inch discrepancy on those Thyssens? @the_uma I gotta ask, did your buddy try recalibrating first or did he just go straight to swapping parts like the rest of us usually do? That's wild if a simple sensor swap was all it took after months of messing with it.