Gen3 Prius TPMS Sensor Part Number Madness

Just FYI, almost any aftermarket 315Mhz TPMS sensors would have worked. Not on Gen3, but I used Autel One sensor on Gen4 Prime winter tires. The cost was less than $10 each after subtracting the cost of the TPMS tool which I bought as a kit with 8 sensors.

It is ridiculous what a dealer try to charge for replacement.

 

You can dig the old battery out and solder in new, for about $4 per. A bit messy, they're embedded in silicone goop. More info on youtube.

One link:

TPMS sensor battery replacement. Here's how, but is it worth it?

Not sure if I'd even bother with that, just let 'em die, use plain valves next time. We drive with plain-valve snow tires now anyways, 5 months out of the year. Light doesn't bother me.

Oh, was gonna say: search those part no's on Amayama, most of them popped up for me. In Canada that's often cheapest route.

 

Yeah, I was burned by a dealer charging me arms and legs on my first car that came with the TPMS sensors. Never again. I bought Autel TS508 TPMS tool that came with 8 sensors. I had three cars at that time all requiring OBDII link to relearn a new set of TPMS. So the cost of the kit which was about $250 was recouped within a year not having have to take them to a tire shop to swap winter/summer tires&wheels.

One good thing about Autel sensors with the TS508 is that I can clone the sensor IDs. So, after cloning a set onto winter wheels, I don't even have to go through the relearn procedure at each winter charge over. To the ECU, the same set of wheels are still on it.

 

Dealership sensor install is neck-and-neck with the price of aftermarket rims.

 

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My experience hasn't been this, it's been that there's a part number that has to match. For example my 2011 would be PMV-107J and my wife's 2019 is PVM-C015 and they are both 315Mhz, but are not compatible with each others cars. I use the Autel tool, it shows those numbers when I scan the wheels. I'm sure there's universal sensors or whatever, but I'd be careful. I hope I'm wrong because my wife currently has to drive around with the tire light on in the winter .

 

You might be correct on two different OEM sensors. But I said any "aftermarket" meaning not OEM parts. But as you said, it has to be "universal" sensors like Autel 1 sensor.

 

Ah, OK thanks. I was actually under the impression that I had aftermarket and Toyota had a different part number designation like the OP mentions, but now I see I did get "genuine" ones.

 

Now come to think of it, I have seen some aftermarket TPMS sensors sold as a "replacement" parts. They may not be universal. So far my Autel universal sensors have been flawless.

 

I know I posted this to you before but it's okay your TPMS sensors on your car 2014 whatever it is are made by a company called Pacific If you look at the back of your center caps on your wheels you'll see the word what Pacific If you were to break down your tire and rim and take your TPMS sensor off it'll be a red logo and the word Pacific the greens go on the generation 2 I think or vice versa they cost $43.90 for a set of four on eBay these are the original sensors that Toyota specd for your car. And what came on your car in Canada in the US I don't know about anywhere else so anybody that's telling you all these funny numbers ending with 12 and very expensive and so on and so forth well I guess nobody did any reading because we've been through this like 20 times in the last 4 months Pacific is the brand they make all your wheel trim and hardware of your wheels center caps bug nuts beauty rings if you have them whatever Pacific they make your TPMS sensors although all this is moot now you've already spent the money and done whatever and etc but this has been posted a bunch of times Glad it worked out for you Pacific is the company that makes all your wheel trim for your Prius

 

can you pass inspection with the tpms light on?

 

In North Carolina in the county I'm at I can have a check engine light on We do not have emissions some of the counties down here in the south have finally gotten pretty smart and realized it's all pretty much a scam the emissions part of the testing not clean cars. So I don't know where all this hoopla started with the TPMS sensors but usually TPMS sensors should not cause you to fail inspection but depending upon how the inspection laws are written in the given state it could The states that are looking for maximum dollar extraction from their citizens will have the wording so that any orange lights on the dash are not permitted or they'll be written in a way that technicians are also taught when they go to these classes to become an inspector in the given state how they are to interpret the pages of text that they're dealing with and when people come in and ask about it that's what they tell them no here in our state it's such and such and so and so that's that The states with the tightest laws are the ones extracting the most money from their citizenry Colorado California I don't know those guys you know or your property taxes are you know half of your yearly salary or something crazy.

 

In most states with mandated inspection, working TPMS is not required to pass. Only 5 states requires functioning TPMS.

TPMS is subject to inspection in states where vehicle safety inspections are mandated. These states are Hawaii, Rhode Island,Vermont, West Virginia. New York inspects TPMS, but does not require it to be functional according to TireRack.

See: https://www.tirerack.com/upgrade-garage/what-are-state-tpms-regulations

 

Groovy! So can I go to Pacific Industrial and buy some? Or is it more "look around eBay and Amazon and decide whether you trust "Xuan" or "JoeElectronics" more to sell you a "Pacific" sensor that was really made by Pacific"?

 

Nope you look at the labels I have pictures of folks need them they have a very specific label and QR code that can go along with the newer ones again the label is very specific they have green and a red Pacific logo our car comes with the green I don't care about all those Chinese names you're spouting off there they they have no bearing on anything to me I don't even know who Pacific is nor do I care but if you look on the back of your center caps and wheel trim you'll see the Pacific logo The Pacific logo looks just like that that you're looking at on the back of your wheel center caps online The exact Pacific green labeled TPMS sensors I ordered look like the Pacific logo on the back of my center caps exactly I guess that's their trademark like folks do here in the US they write things funny and they whatever that's their logos what it looks like I don't know what all this Chinese nonsense you're putting up here don't even care about that but when I look on eBay for those Pacific brand sensors they pop up then I find the green label ones and then I look in the fit for those green label sensors and it covers my Prius and that's what's on my Prius right now that came from the factory because they've never been touched that's probably what I'm going to order and they're $49 of freaking set whoops and they work so there's always that That's all I'm saying I don't know who all these people are you're typing up here maybe that's the real company that is Pacific I don't know or care I look for their trademarked looking logo that's on the back of your center caps in various wheel trim items they may make other things too but I don't care about that either I haven't done any research and don't plan to.

 

eBay sellers have names. What's the name of the eBay seller you buy these from? You see the seller's name over on the right of the listing.

 

I don't know I have to figure out how to scan that QR code that's not on something else I don't spend a lot of time with that stuff but I will check as far as I know he's still in my list of crap that I've bought so he's not a fly-by nighter at least so far but the names you mentioned earlier don't come up or ring a bell I'm not sure that they're Asian people or whatever but I'm not certain of that I'll have a look in a minute and see what we got but it usually the people I buy from on eBay have really dumb names It's not like their names it's some business name twisted with letters upside down or whatever the heck but rarely is it anything very normal looking.