TPMS warning light blinks for about a minute

ChapmanF · Jun 13, 2024

ChapmanF said: ↑

If the car is old enough (a 2011 qualifies), it probably means the battery in one of the transmitters has run down. The batteries aren't replaceable, so that means replacing the transmitter.

Happened recently to one of mine (2010). I bought a new transmitter and registered its ID, and took it to my local Discount Tire and told them which corner it was, so they could dismount that tire and change the transmitter.

They didn't charge me anything for the dismount/remount/balance, maybe because I'm an existing customer buying my tires there. So I didn't bother spending more right then to replace the other three. They are probably all due to run down "near" the same time, but I often find that "near" the same time can still mean quite a spread, so I figure when the next one runs down I'll just do the same thing. If that happens really soon, maybe I'll reconsider.
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I've just had the second one stop transmitting, two years and a bit after the first one.

But the one that just stopped was ok right until the tire it was in got burst by a fallen rock in Yellowstone, and has not worked at all since the tire was replaced. So I can't say for sure whether it was about to poop out from old age anyway, or got killed by the bursting of the tire, or got damaged when the nearby Walmart replaced the burst tire.

TPMS warning light blinks for about a minute

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TPMS warning light blinks for about a minute

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