Getting ready to buy a new to me Gen 3 (2011)

i installed 3rd party wide angle camera right after we bought the car. Camera is wireles and rather small so i attached it to rear window bottom section (inside) with foam tape and connected to reverse light wires. It has own (4”?) display which is connected to cigarette lighter socket. It is currently attached to dash behind the wheel and with foam tape

i am pretty happy with this camera and the visibility is surprisingly good given that camera is behind tinted window. Key thing is to have camera as close to window as possible and preferrably seal it to window. I cut a large ring from black rubber foam which is my ”seal”.

Once R is selected camera is up quite fast, maybe within 2s or so. Obviously if window is dirty then picture is affected. My camera is not available in U.S. but i am sure you can find good option easily. Wireless camera’s are everywhere and technology is very mature. I paid 75Eur for my camera and it’s definitely worth every penny. Installing is easy thanks to wireless connection.

 

I think that autozone, or napa, or other auto stores will program them for free.
Perhaps walfart? You could call and ask...

 

Car scanner won’t write the unique sensor id into the tpms ecu. Most tire shops have Autel tpms tools to write the ids into the vehicle.

Techstream can write the ids as well. Many buy the hacked Techstream and install on an offline xp or win7 laptop. Or they buy Professional access from Toyota and download the current updated scanner legally.

I would shop small tire shops and find a good price for installing four sensors and updating the car with you supplying the sensors. Around here I could have it all done for $100 including the 315mhz sensors from Amazon.

Note: If you have a scanner that can read the pressures, simply deflate one tire at a time while monitoring live pressures. You will see the tires that respond and the tires that don’t. However it makes sense to change all four at once rather than whack a mole one at a time.

Techstream

 

Or at least wait till new tires are needed?

By cleaning it periodically, say every 50k miles. See top two links in my signature (on a phone turn it landscape to see signatures).

A steady regimen of 50K cleanings is the only way to keep the system functioning optimum, ie: sufficent flow, unfiormly delivered to all 4 cylinders, and properly cooled. This is not Toyota's finest engineering.

 

Realize tpms replacement on this car is a one time thing. I would not buy one of a kind tpms cloning tools and sensors.

The special Autel scanner you need to clone your existing sensors along with the expensive Mx sensors would cost more than simply going to Discount Tire or Costco and having them turnkey the whole job. At least double or triple cost of simply buying the sensors and having a small tire shop install them.

You have to read the tpms ecu or take out the old sensors to even begin the Mx cloning process for a dead sensor.

Getting a Techstream going just for this is questionable although it allows full bidirectional testing across multiple systems in the car and its scan data is complete. If you need diy for future needs like brake booster setup and calibration, hv battery repair, egr step testing, hvac repairs etc or simply for reading the specialized Toyota hybrid codes, a high end scanner or Techstream should be in your toolbox.

 

I've been around these parts before...never hearduv it.

What is this you speak of?

 

The head gasket software fix. Only for European Prii.

 

Software stop- leak.

 

Take a look at this thread: https://priuschat.com/index.php?posts/3388857

 

How often do you plan on using the $150 tool? If you plan on using it often, it
may be worth it. You could charge a small fee(25% less) to hlep recoup the money.
If you don't plan on using it often, you're wasting your money.

 

see post #6

 

Do you know how to check the current version? I bought mine a few years ago, but I doubt the dealership updated anything - they were real good about hiding defects, but I managed to check everything major.

 

Techstream and some Bluetooth scanners can read it.

Here is Car Scanner app on its initial screen


Same app on ECU Identifiers screen (partial)