TPMS Adventures: new lessons learned and insights gained

They are allowed 20 minutes to read although typically it’s within minutes when you go over 20 mph. The time is to allow for sensor to sensor rf interference as they transmit independently. Other cars and flakey aftermarket headlight leds can interfere as well. The aftermarket LEDs can continuously interfere when on.

Overall it’s very reliable and a whole set can be replaced for less than $100 parts and labor if you shop.

 

Dang I didn’t get a chance.

 

We know you are tight with the Canadian Loonie (dollars) when it comes to safety gadgets.

 

Mines on all the time in four cars I have brand new sensors and two of the four cars I just don't know where I put the numbers so I can manually enter them and tech. But in the meantime a friend of mine just said he bought a $50 tool that's made by a reputable company that'll make the things relearn automatically just walking up and pushing the button so I'm going to try that one of these weeks when I have time to go over to his house he doesn't get out all that much anymore and see He told me he has an extra one I can buy from him for 30 bucks if I want it It's worked on two of his Prius and two of his BMW motorcycles without issue He didn't know the numbers of the TPMS sensors or anything just stuff the Pacific sensors in the Gen 2 rode around with the light on for a week got this tool use the relearn feature light went out through the tool in the toolbox never again to see the light so far which is generally how it goes in the gen 2 until you have a flat I have all the flat tools in the car plugs and insertion tools slime etc I try to never use any of that stuff but I will put a plug in in a second on the side of the road If it's just a screw or a nail I'm out of there in 4 minutes I don't really like the fix a flat and the slime business I usually have that to help other people I would prefer not to put that in my tires I'm so far never have.

 

Mine went about 12½ years before I got the light, so at least they're consistent. I might follow Mendel's example, unless I can buy a set and have them installed and programmed for under $100 when next I need tires.

 

once installed how do you get them to show on the car, if my car originality never had them. where will the TPMS connect to display the pressure ?

many thanks

 

What do you mean if your car never had them Do you have a TPMS light on your dash that lights up and stays lit all the time on the car Yes No? If yes I didn't know that the generation 2 had an option to not have them but be that as it may If it doesn't you don't have the options installing the sensors will make nothing happen If your car has TPMS and you have a TPMS orange light on the dashboard and the car is wired for TPMS radio frequency and all that then you're in good shape You mount the sensors and you follow the instructions some of them you have to pump up and then take out half the air and then pump them back up to some such nonsense. Or you can buy a tool that generally cost about $50 or you can take it to a tire shop like discount tire wants the sensors are mounted and on the car they have a tool that will relearn each sensor to the car doesn't really matter the sensor preferably there the Pacific branded ones like we talked about the other day here but if not a lot of these tools will turn on the learn mode and with the car on they'll register to the car and the learn mode essentially or you'll use software like Toyota tech and enter the numbers manually in there and push enter and so on and so forth and do that for each set of numbers depends on what you have available to you usually with most people that go to the tire store it's just much faster and if they don't have to mount anything they're already mounted. All they're going to do is run their wand over the sensors and boot the car etc and do that for all four wheels and the light will go out then everything will work as per your owner's manual that might be in your glove box.

 

Being from the UK your best bet is to buy a separate tpms display since your car won’t have the rf receiver, tpms ecu or proper software.



https://www.amazon.com/Hlyjoon-Receiver-Pressure-Monitoring-Internal/dp/B07TBKYH76/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=2QSTS082M7OYK&keywords=tpms+receiver&qid=1707680680&sprefix=tpms+receiver,aps,245&sr=8-3

 

thank you for this mate.

 

Boy I can't even imagine doing this to my Corollas supras etc. what I would consider is adding a true heads-up display in some of my other vehicles That's very inexpensive now but adding TPMS oh no I checked my tires too off and I have a hose hanging at a compressor that I parked next to so the last time I had a flat was maybe in the mid '80s seriously so we don't really do flats a lot and we do go off-roadways all the time It is nothing for my vehicles to be running down a fence line no problem at all haven't had a flat out in the woods in my cars ever that I can remember I've had power sports equipment tires blow up get things in them what have you but never in any of the cars or the road cars.

 

Yeah all of those tire sensors work like that even the factory originals for $49 for a set of four work the same way if you have a TPMS relearn tool to strike up the relearn with the sensors and the vehicle so yeah pretty much anybody can buy the tool to do this there's a Toyota tool that some company makes with a yellow logo that only costs about 50 bucks you can buy them online that does just only that or you can simply remember or write down all four identification codes and enter them in manually in your Toyota software If you have such a thing even the AP200 I think may be able to do this or it will at least show you that the sensors are mounted and what their numbers are but the AP200 can't strike up a relearn You have to have like the MX808 or other tools that are capable of TPMS work or not bother with any tooling and let the tire center do it for the $10 my goodness makes sense everybody's not going to go out and buy every tool when they do this once every 13 years