All you need to know about Tire Pressure Monitor For Toyota 

I totally agree. I subscribe to the "If it's got tits or tires there's going to be trouble"..

Lmao I was wondering if someone noticed the life is good comment. I love that line from him hahah

This is the reason nobody likes dealers. Greed

$850 plus tax here in Naples Fl and this guy runs his own shop and said it was cheaper than the dealer...OMG

Buy your own and ask how much it cost to put them on

@@legofnafnas Some shops won't install customer supplied parts

He said it only reads if the tire is spinning. If you replace without programming new ones, will light stay out?

Almost as good as the jelly of the month club.

Thanks Cousin Eddie💕

@@joyceelmer131 You're welcome. Ed.

I did exactly the same, thanks for posting

I did just that for years in my 2006 Tacoma. ... simple fix. 👍

I just ignore them when I install my winter rims without sensors

What is the right pressure on a toyota yaris hybrid 2018

I did this with my Ford Mondeo here in Finland where winters are long and cold, Ford decided that it is a good idea to give a RED warning light in the dials when temperature goes below -4c. Not fun to look at that for 4-5months per year... Usually red light means that something is terribly wrong

Thanks my brother!

Awesome! You’d be surprised how many dealerships don’t know about this. And unfortunately some of them pretend like they don’t know

@@TheCarCareNut Hi. Does a list of Toyota vehicule that dont need re-grogramming exist ?

Were they brand new sensors or the original ones from your summer wheels?

I’m sure they know but want to screw us more.

Good for you. It's a really terrible system because it can't be serviced without removing the tire.

😂

I had one sensor go out on because the battery died prematurely, and another go out when a tech broke it when installing new tires. (2015 Nissan Versa-- an emergency replacement car following a flood.) The shop couldn't get a sensor in time (I was sitting in the waiting room for the new tire installation), so they put a rubber stem in and offered to install the new one later for free. -- Keeping in mind that one sensor battery was already gone, and others would likely follow soon, and that the inflexibility of the metal stems sometimes made it hard to get a gauge or a tire chuck to seat on the TPS stems, I said screw it and just lived with the light on until the next time I needed tires and had all the sensors replaced with rubber stems. -- For an older car nearing the end of the TPS battery life, the system doesn't make cost/benefit sense for me. And as the car approaches 10 years old, I anticipate getting a new spare tire soon, and I'll get rid of that sensor then, too. When you've had a flat and are running on the spare, you're riding with no spare tire until you get the flat fixed or replaced, so I don't want to be riding on an old, cracked spare in the middle of the night when making a long drive, as I do often.

Thanks you for all your VERY informative videos CCN! The TPMs has saved me from a serious problems a number of of times over 11 years due to punctures from nails and once a sheet metal screw puncture. For that reason I am glad my 2012 Tacoma SR5 4x4 has it. I replaced my original Dunlops after about 5 years and was asked by the tire store if I wanted new TPMS sensors at that time which I of course declined. About 6 months ago out of the blue I started getting the flashing TPMS light at startup followed by the steady light, which I learned indicated a system malfunction. Jade been doing regular old school manual pressure gate checks regularly and plan to have a new set of sensors installed to replace the now 11 year old original ones when I have a new set of Michelin LT tires put on in a few months. Mysteriously, after a couple of months, the TPMS started working normally again on its own - no flashing on startup, and no lock in light, I at first thought the TPMS indicator. on the dash had burned out, but it still comes on briefly with all the other indicators on key on. Was surprised to see the system somehow correct itself, I was thinking the failure was most likely due to a dead sensor battery, but who knows? Couple of questions - when I go for my next set of tires in a few months, should I also replace the original now 11 year old but otherwise zero wear spare? Does the spare have a TPMS sensor in a 2012 Tacoma? Should it’s 11 year old sensor be replaced along with the others? I was going to have the tires and sensors replaced by the dealership that sold me the Tacoma in 2012 when they replaced the trucks frame under the recall program a few months ago, but their price quote for the tires and especially replacement of all the TPMS was ridiculously high relative to quotes I received from two major tire store chains. I just can’t rationalize why I would want to pay so much more to the dealership, and therefore am leaning towards going elsewhere, The main difference in the quotes was the cost of replacing the TPMS sensors, the dealer quote was more than twice that of the major chains, at close to 600 dollars! Maybe I’ll see ii the chain stores can give me a quite that includes OEM Toyota sensors, can you tell me the manufacturer? Thanks CCN! Chris in Connecticut

Well, they should charge less to change them when they are installing new tires because the tires are already removed from the rims. If they fail and the tire is good then it cost extra to remove the tire and reinstall it.

True, but just like headlights, if one goes it is probably just a matter of time before the other goes. May as well replace both and be done with it. Of course, with TPMS if one goes I'm not going to worry about it until new tire time.

Just another slush fund for Toyota dealers.

I took my daughter's Toyota in for new tires locally, not the dealer. He thought the hard sell was going to work to get me to bite for aftermarket garbage. Little did he know I worked on CNC equipment throughout my career and I am very mechanically inclined. Finally I laughed at him and sat down, needless to say they did not have a repeat customer in my daughter. Growing up I hung out with the guys who were all motor heads, I find hanging out with the guys the most informative. Y'all are fantastic, never met a guy who wasn't willing to literally give me an education on whatever the issue was whether it was a car, a lathe, or a milling machine. I was the luckiest girl in the world. Thanks guys for being the best!!!

Ditto! Me too...subbed!

Me too 7/25/21 Thank you!

Hi! Your sienna has the indirect system. I would check the pressures and reset it

2008 TPMS reciever replacement is 732.00 at Toyota dealership! BS!

Why do you think after market systems are a waste of money? I got mine for only $25 and it works great. Just screw on 4 special tire caps with a tiny (replaceable!) button battery. So much better than trying to fix the obsolete factory system that would not even give individual tire pressure.

@@DYI I would love to see a link to that product!

​@@RichardHowieThey don't call them Stealerships for nothing 😮

The compatible sensors were Huf Intellisens (some German brand), and they all worked fine. Also, no, I'm not going to buy another car using direct sensors. I'm sticking to indirect sensing cars only.

I always ignore the TPMS. Always used a good gauge and checked regularly. Every day when i go to my vehicle i visually inspect the tires to see if they look low or have a nail or screw in them.

What was the issue? I have an 08 tundra with the undercut system and the light won’t go out. How did they find out what speed sensor went out?

Indirect system

It's not a down side to crawl around in the snow, ten degrees below zero, frozen fingers, checking and adjusting tire pressure just because one was at 36psi while the others are at 33? I'll just look at them, kick them, and get on with life, as I have for fifty years! The sensors would be useful if they only came on with a major difference (like ten psi), but two or three psi difference is ridiculous. Also, as some have pointed out, a lot of folks swap out rims with winter tires that don't have the sensors, so the light is on all winter. It would be better if the sensors were on the axle, as in some Hondas.

@@alansach8437 Agree. When the batteries wear out on my Camry I’ll cover the light with electrical tape and put a reminder on my phone to check pressure every week or two.

Check weekly and rempve sensors, waste of money

I disagree, I drove 30 years without it no problem. Stupid system for stupid people in my view.

​@@oldskaterDanI'll also put electric tape later. It's annoying that I check tire pressure monthly and still get this error.

@@captar1 Hey man you are right !! I used voice text at the time .. I said one thing and it typed something else ... I just corrected it ..It had me wondering what I said as well? ?😂

Hi. The spare tires that are at 60 psi that do have a sensor will be programmed to work with the 60 psi pressure. However most of the models that have a sensor for the spare will have a full size tire which has normal pressure

Yes what did we do 30 years ago? Lol

Correct

God must smile on your righteousness of tire pressure checking. He puts nails in my path and the tpms sensor tells me about the future repair I will be making on the flat side of the tire. (Why are tires flat on the bottom only?)

@@2148aa I'm not that "righteous", Can't remember when I last checked them, but "Lock Down" means my car sits with the battery charger at the moment, actually let my daughter drive for ages with a nail in, gee they seal well until the nail gets rusty, then she calls me up one day and says she has flat, I went down to see what she had in mind to do if no one around to help, no idea, so I showed how to change it and let her do the work, A passer by did not know the Daughter/Dad connection, must have thought I was dumb and offered to help. I bought one of those "Do it yourself" kits with the plunger thing. A real money saver.

@@adoreslaurel I check tire pressure every 3 weeks, Fluids every 2 weeks. I do rotate my own tires every 10,000 miles. To see if tire wear is off. I believe in a full size spare tire. I've had cheap tires that went 60,000 without a problem and expensive tires that went flat every 500 miles. No logic at all to any of it.