Reset Tire Pressure Monitor System?

"Eschew obfuscation" Keep it simple .......... been a long time since I've seen that !

 

When I take off my winter tires (no sensors) and replace with my all season tires (with sensors) will doing this reset take care of things or will the sensor serial numbers need to be re-entered with a scan tool? Can this be done with a ScanGauge 2?

 

No. Your car will find the sensors fine, no need to reset anything.

 

Sorry to bump up an old thread, but is there an affordable way to reset the new sensors? I've got a set of winter wheels & summer wheels, all 8 with TPMS sensors and the shop I had them installed at mentioned I would have to come back each time I swap them. I was wondering whether I could find a way to register the new sensors on my own without having the hassle of going back.

 

You’ll need to acquire the tools and knowhow the shop employs, which is not trivial/inexpensive, but getting better.

I didn’t get TPMS sensors with my snow tires on rims, didn’t want the expense/hassle.

where you’re at you can just ignore the light through winter, chalk it up to experience. Or persevere.

 

Bummer. My F150 just recognizes new TPMS so I didn't think about it.

What's the tool cost if you know?

 

Any OBD-II scan tool that says it can do TPMS programming on a Prius should work. There are probably options under $100 if you do enough shopping around (or someone chimes in with a recommendation).

The Toyota way would be with their Techstream software running on a laptop plugged into the car with a dongle. How much you spend to do that depends on a variety of things; you can search PriusChat for threads about it if interested.

 

They were correct.
Prius only allows 5 sensors at a time. You could check auto parts stores and
see if they will do it for you, or not charge, or small charge.
Or purchase a scan tool that have the ability to program the sensors.

 

Humm, Ok. I haven't bought an OBD-II scan tool before -- I'll have to look into it if the cost to swap them out is high.

Wish I would have thought of just not having TPMS sensors installed...

 

Having them installed but the car not knowing their ID numbers, that's pretty much like not having them installed.

 

For 5th Gen Toyota finally made the tpms sensors automatically configurable if I’m not mistaken. Cold comfort.

 

Must be where all the cargo space went.

 

The clever way to handle winter tires is to use Autel MX sensors for the second set. They can be have their ID numbers cloned to your first set such that either set automatically works.



However you already have two sets of tpms sensors, all with unique ids.

Which is the typical situation and requires rewriting ids (relearn) to the car's tpms ecu with Toyota Techstream obd2 scanner software or the use of another capable tpms scanner, typically from Autel.

This is an area where the hacked old version Techstream and a mini-vci interface connected by usb to a PC works. It is low cost and available by searching mini-vic on Amazon.

However it is hacked software, sometimes difficult to install and includes specific instructions not to go online with it. Regardless, many do use it on a dedicated offline pc or win7 laptop. With this setup you can rewrite the winter tpms ids into the car's tpms ecu but you have to know each id which is printed on the sensors.

Alternate:

Most tire shops have an Autel tpms tool which can directly rf read the installed tpms sensor ids and can write (relearn) a new set into the tpms ecu. That is what you need unless you saved the ids or are willing to breakdown the tires to visually read the tpms sensor ids.



This standalone tool can read installed sensor ids, write new ids and can clone your ids into the specialized Autel Mx devices (which is not necessary in your case).

Selected excerpts from the Autel 501 manual (71 pages)
The sensor id check above is wireless directly to the wheel's sensor


"Read IDs from Vehicle" below is reading the car's tpms ecu with the Autel 501 obd2 connection

 

Oofdah. I'll bookmark this page and revisit it in the summer when I have to swap the tires out. I did just learn that the TPMS is not checked in our yearly inspection, so I could just not do it if needed & rely on visual inspection for low tire PSI like the good ole days.

Maybe if I go back to the tire shop that I spent $$$ at for winter tires, they will reprogram them for me each fall/spring .

 

That's in "blah"? If you give a more specific location it helps responders. And you're seriously 94?

 

^hah, no I guess I just entered randoms when I created my account.