TPMS Pairing: One time, or everytime?

assuming the 08 hasn't changed since the 06-07, they have to be re-registered each time the wheels are swapped. the ECU can't hold info for 8 sensors at a time.

one of the bigger vehicles... maybe the land cruiser... i don't remember off the top of my head... has a toggle switch. but that's it.

 

Why don't you just forget about the monitors for your winter tires? Many owners do it that way to avoid the high cost of the monitors and the pairing. You'll just have to live with the tire pressure light on your dash for the winter. Just check your tire pressure manually every couple of weeks.

 

yeah. you can be, by going over there and asking them to demonstrate how to program 8 sensors to your car. while they're at it, they need to show you where the main/2nd switch to toggle the sets is located... :lol:

hubby was the dealer tech who did this stuff.

 

Yet another reason TPMS is a complete and absolute waste of money and time.

As galaxee said...

Other cars that have a full sized spare have to have the _spare_ tire registered as well and the tire must be mounted in/on the car in a way so that the TPMS sensor can read it along with the other wheels as well. It's a completely flawed system... I'm sorry to hear that you have it.

 

TPMS isn't a waste of money/time when you catch a tire going soft
on the highway and are able to pull over before you shred it. That's
why it's mandated for US market cars by now, and if you read some of
the papers and patents on the development process you'll see the
incredible pain some people went through trying to design a reliable
system. Once it becomes more standard/mainstream, everyone will
simply assume that it comes on cars as standard as interior lighting,
and think nothing more of it until it either malfunctions somehow
or saves their nice person on the road.
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_H*

 

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Sorry all, I'm taking this thread OT.

TPMS is a complete waste of time and money. At about $100 per wheel and a minimum of a half hour of programming... Plus rebalancing because now there is this in the wheel:

It' a complete waste. It takes no more than five minutes to check the tire pressure and feel around for any bumps or things that are not normal. If you're not competent to do that, take it to the local garage where someone can do that. That shouldn't take more than 10 or 15 min. Having a nanny government policy to monitor your 'tires' is stupid. Not to get political, but don't we have enough problems already?!!

Of my friends that have had the mis-fortune of buying new cars with TPMS, all of them have had to take their cars into the dealer two or three times to re-program them because the TPMS sensors/system were faulty; Jeep and Mitsubishi.

If a tire shreds, it's generally a rapid blowout that TPMS wouldn't warn about until the tire was already unpressurized. Then, you've got a stability problem along with yet-other-jack-russell-f'n-terrier-light-on-the-dash warning you about something that has already occurred.

TPMS is just another word for SCAM.

 

its a federal regulation, all cars have it now

the primary reason for it was fuel economy

 

Note that the TPMS light doesn't go on until the car has run about 1 hour continuously without seeing the sensors. SO if you leave the old tires near in your garage and only drive a half hour at a time, the light doesn't even come on. If it does, next time you park in the garage it goes out again.