Tire pressure sensor light bypass

I am giving up on the tire pressure sensors. I'm an old timer I guess. I don't mind checking the tire pressure, and I do mind paying for the sensors every time. I had a link for the process for disabling the dashboard warning light, but the link doesn't work anymore.

Does anybody have a link to a web page or a Youtube video that shows how to disable the warning light?

 

What you can do is remove the sensors, put them in a pvc tube with a valve, and pressurize it.

Or live with the light. Mines been on for 7 years. Not hopeful that it will blow out anytime soon.

 

Black electrical tape work wonders.

 

There are a couple of threads on TW that show how to bypass the system by rewiring a couple of wires either behind the radio or at the fuse panel on the passenger side kick panel. I don't have the link, but if I find it again, I will post it here.

 

It costs more to buy a tank of gas than new sensors. If it cost several hundred dollars to do this I could understand, but $40-60 every 7-10 years isn't an issue. I still use an air gauge too, but my sensors will alert me of a sudden tire deflation while I'm driving. My air gauge won't do that. Twice since owning a vehicle with sensors they have prevented a tire from suddenly going flat after running over unseen road debris. Both times I just barely had time to get onto the shoulder and stopped before the tires were completely flat. Very likely preventing an accident. Having a tire come apart at 70 mph isn't fun and that is what the sensors are designed for. Not to replace your air gauge.

A tire store won't charge you any extra to install new sensors when you buy new tires. I've been buying new sensors and taking them to the tire stores and having them installed with every other set of tires. That works out to about once every 6-7 years. I've never waited until they went bad. Replacing them proactively at 6-7 years costs a lot less than waiting until one goes bad and having to pay to have them installed. Chances are good that after 6-7 years they won't outlast another set of tires anyway.

 

Here is one of the links:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/complete-tpms-disable-guide.161292/