No Tire pressure readout?

All I could find for the HDD Premium unit was a reference to an idiot light that would indicate that some tire was significantly below the set point. Even my 5-year old Honda Pilot has a display that denotes which tire has the issue.

 

Picking up mine this week. But got the manuals yesterday. It does have it referenced in the manual for my non-advanced PIP.
Will let you know if it is actually there later this week.

 

Hey, Where is the Tire Pressure Warning System display, as in the Display Audio System Owner's Manual, page 89 ???

I just went out to my PIP Base model and pressed CAR button (which is on the right-side of the display, not the left like in the manual).
I didn't get the Fuel Consumption / Tire Pressure display of page 86. I instead got the Energy Monitor of the regular Owner's Manual page 53.

Now we ALL know that the Base PIP has the same Tire Pressure Monitoring System sensors as the Advanced model and the Base model has the same Warning Tire LED as the non-PIP Prius, so why is the software limiting the Base model from displaying the actual Tire Pressures as apparently only the Advanced is allowed to display?

I understand that I didn't pay for the Leather Seats or the Collision Avoidance System or the LED Headlights or the HomeLink Rearview mirror, but I thought I would get the same Software for all the other features.

 

Also, with the PIP, the factory Tire Pressures are again 35 psi front and 33 psi rear.

In my 2007 I set my tire pressures at 40 front and 38 rear, as many suggested.

With the heavier battery for the PIP, I'm suprised the factory rear pressure isn't higher.

What are the User-suggested PIP Tire Pressures?

 

In fact, the OP has the Advanced package, and was wondering if somehow only the Basic package had the tire pressure readout as shown in the online user manual.

I suspect that this is something that disappeared between the pre-production and production models

 

I have the Base model and you cannot see what the tire pressure is in the tires. I'm a bit curious as to how it will tell me when I have a pressure problem.

 

I think we'll just get a light on the dash that warns there is a tire with low pressure. Which tire is low is up to you to find. Seems kind of ridiculous not to include that.. the data is there.. just need the computer to make it available for display.

 

Just an idiot light which is a cross-section of a tire with a ! through it. All that fancy computer stuff, and they can't at least put up a display like on my 2007 Honda Pilot that has has an outline of the car body with four wheels with the one with the trouble highlighted. The same diagram it uses to tell you which door is ajar. Like on high-end copiers that have an LCD display that illustrates the various compartments along the paper path and points to the one with the jam.

 

i have never had low tire pressure in 8 years, is this a big problem?

 

My 2007 Prius had the Tire Pressure Warning light.
The PIP Ownwe's Manual page 477 talked about it.
The PIP Display Audio System Owner's Manual page 86-89 talks about the Tire Pressure screen.
If neither the Base model nor the Advanced model have the screen of the Tire Pressures, why is it in the Audio Manual ???

Who has the Software Fix ???

 

TOYOTA!

Be the first to complain to Toyota.

 

The first time I saw this in a 2007 Prius, I couldn't figure out what it was and had to look it up in the manual. IMO, it's not a very intuitive icon. I think they should have used a tire w/ a flat side view.

 

Nav manual section 7 pg 190-3 (n07.pdf download).
No Nav manual section 4 pg 86-90 (nn04.pdf download).

So the tire pressure option isn't showing after pressing the Car button?
Software app install missed at the factory? hmm

 

We need a Factory Man on PriusChat to help us !!!

 

That brings up another question.

What do you use to check your tire pressure and are you sure it's accurate? And is there a way for you to check the accuracy of the device?

When I ask Tire shops, the mechanics haven't thought of their cheap pencil gauges being inaccurate. And most shops don't have a Master Gauge to check against.

And NYS Weights and Measure when they go to Gas Stations, they check the timing of the Air Pumps, but they don't check the accuracy of the gauges. Crazy !!!

 

I looked to it doesn't exist.