Turn off your TPMS light FOREVER!

For about $20 each you can replace the sensors when getting new tires mounted and keep the TPMS light off for about 10 more years. Works out to about the same cost as a McDonalds value meal once a year. Why is this an issue?

And the sensors aren't designed to monitor air pressure for you, that is still done with an air gauge just like it has always been done. TPMS is to warn you of a sudden tire deflation while driving. My 2007 Tacoma is the 1st vehicle I owned with TPMS and I like it. Twice since buying the truck I ran over debris in the road that punctured tires. The light came on both times and gave me 10-15 seconds to get off the road and stopped before the tire came apart at 70 mph. That is what they are designed for.

 

I suppose a square of electrical tape over the light would work well too.

 

No.

 

For my 2015, we used this thread. The solution worked for my rig.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2012-tpms-light-disabled.284690/

 

But isn't this, in essence, what disabling the light is doing?

 

This is the solution to the problem I've faced. Thank you.

 

Not in my eyes. You will always know there is just a piece of tape there. At night is the light going to leak around the outside after 2 years and the tape starts to dry out?

Tape, where I live does not last long, 30C+ in the summer, -40C in the winter.






I like doing things a little more, permanently.

 

It's so much easer to just ignore it! My winter tires have no sensors I don't loose a bit sleep.

 

Good points!

 

Well, this is more simple than finding the TPMS +voltage wire in the wiring to the cluster, and cutting it...

 

Sub'd

 

^^^This^^^
I have had three cars now with this monitor. One would display the actual tire having the problem (with actual pressure showing) and the others just turned on a warning light. In all cases it was a either a nail, screw, rim leak or a valve stem. It turned on a light or screen display and warned me well before a flat. It was never wrong.

 

Taking the gauge panel out and removing the TPMS bulb took all of 15 minutes, just works, and is easily reversed. Worked like a charm in my 09.

 

What about those with 2 sets of tires? TPMS isn't really necessary.

 

My truck's TPMS also includes the spare tire. When I purchased the truck the TPMS light was on. I aired up the 4 tires to 32psi but still had the TPMS light on. Thought I had a bad sensor. Checked the spare tire (which I check maybe once a year anyway) and it was about 13psi low. Aired it up to 32psi and the TPMS went out. I will be keeping my TPMS sytem functioning to let me know that my spare tire is sufficiently aired up if I need to use it.

 

That's why I removed my light bulb from the gauge cluster.