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Damn Toyota TPMS!

Discussion in 'Wheels & Tires' started by piercedtiger, Sep 9, 2008.

  1. Oct 6, 2009 at 6:05 AM
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    Asking us won't help...Go talk to the dealer and see what they say. It's worth asking them for it...but I wouldn't get your hopes up either.
     
  2. Oct 6, 2009 at 6:25 AM
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    I will ask next time I get my radio replace under warranty.

    I would think they should replace my TMPS because the tires are still original with only 8K miles when the TMPS goes bad. It is not like I had new tire installed and the installer fried it.
     
  3. Oct 6, 2009 at 6:32 AM
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    Build a small steel box, drill 4 holes in it, mount your sensors in there and fill it with air to the appropriate PSI. Then weld it to the frame.
     
  4. Oct 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM
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    yes, they are covered under warranty. My light had been blinking for about a year or more but I never cared to have it looked at. Before selling my truck I took it to the dealership to have a different problem looked at and he also checked my TPMS while I was gone. He said the front driver side tire wasnt giving a reading and said that he could have the tire pulled and if it was a bad sensor it would be replaced under warranty. I already had a buyer lined up for the truck and he was fine with the TPMS not working so I told the dealership not to bother since I wasnt sure it was just a bad sensor and didn't wanna pay out of pocket for it. I also already did the mod to ground the wire and stop the light from showing.
     
  5. Oct 6, 2009 at 8:08 AM
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    for note: unplugging the module on an 09 doesn't work... looks like i will need to remove an led soon.... :(
     
  6. Oct 6, 2009 at 8:13 AM
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    Had an 06 and if you're talking about just unplugging the wire from the TPMS computer back below the stereo then that didn't work on mine either. there was a thread on some forum with pictures of a wire behind the glove box that you had to cut and just attach to a ground.
     
  7. Oct 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM
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    If you need a spare with sensor and if your in S Cal PM me I have three for sale.
     
  8. Oct 6, 2009 at 8:28 AM
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    post #126
    with it like this if you ever want to put in back to normal you just disconnect the wire from the ground and plug it back into the original wire. very simple
     
  9. Oct 6, 2009 at 8:34 AM
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    Thanks for the link. I had been looking for that for a while. Does it still work with an '09? I will have to try it and find out!
     
  10. Oct 6, 2009 at 9:13 AM
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    subscribed. I will be buying that tire rack kit eventually. we have to understand that certain things are done a certain way when making vehicles so as to get more bucks for the bang when we have to bring it into them to be fixed. Im almost sure of this. if something is a pita to fix or replace then labor hours go up up up!
     
  12. Dec 26, 2009 at 10:05 AM
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    I was considering not installing the TPMS sensors on the new wheels I just picked up. Two weeks ago I was hauling a big heavy freezer on the highway during high winds and cut a tire. With the buffeting of the wind and the different "feel" of the truck due to a load in the bed I couldn't tell that my tire was flat until I could actually hear and feel it, as in it was riding on the rim with just the folded sidewall to protect the wheel.

    The reason I didn't know it was going down is because I had removed my spare wheel a while back and hadn't put it back on yet, just dealing with the light on the dash. I was about 1 mile from the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and if this flat had leaked down a little more slowly gone completely flat the tube, it would have been impossible for me to change since there's no shoulder and I would have either had to stop traffic during rush hour and pay VDOT for the tow out, or drive it on out of the tunnel and risk doing some major damage.

    Given this experience, I now see the TPMS sensors in a different light. I will be transferring them from my OE wheels to the new KMC wheels I just bought. I'll still check my tire pressures as usual, but I have a new appreciation for the type of advance warning the TPMS offers.
     
  13. Dec 26, 2009 at 10:24 AM
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    Holy chit, I've done a lot already!!
    Very good endorsement for TPMS, and I fully agree. It is a costly system, but may very well save your a$$ one day. It doesn't make it idiot proof. You still have to check your tire pressure. No matter how many times I have asked her to check immediately, my wife still says, "oh my tire light came on the other day, can you fill my tires for me?" Now mind you she is not incompetent and has her own 12v inflator. Just merely ignorant to a situation like above happening, and it scares the hell out of me sometimes!!
     
  14. Dec 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM
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    [quote="OldManTan";1253367]Very good endorsement for TPMS, and I fully agree. It is a costly system, but may very well save your a$$ one day. It doesn't make it idiot proof. You still have to check your tire pressure. No matter how many times I have asked her to check immediately, my wife still says, "oh my tire light came on the other day, can you fill my tires for me?" Now mind you she is not incompetent and has her own 12v inflator. Just merely ignorant to a situation like above happening, and it scares the hell out of me sometimes!![/quote]

    My wife is the same way with the car. Never checks, and occasionally mentions to me they look soft. So I end up going out and finding out they're 10PSI or more under what they should be (at least 1 of the tires).
     
  15. Dec 26, 2009 at 10:57 AM
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    I'm in the same boat you are-Twice now. First time my truck and I were hauling part of my household (It was a full load..1200 lbs or so) across the Gulf Coast from Pensacola to New Orleans. I drove over a sheetrock razor blade and got a sweet 4 inch gash in my tire- No patching that. And with the load in the truck it felt different enuf that I may or may not have noticed before the tire separated.

    Last weekend my scion picked up a short nail thru a thinner tire. It was a slow release cause the nail stayed in the tire. and I was fixing to drive 250 miles on it...Coulda gotten very bad to be low on air for a long trip like that.

    All the other 3 tires were good on air...and I'm sure the 4th would have been right on if I hadn't damaged them...so the idiot light helped me avoid a bad situation.
     
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    Pardon me for not ready all of this but one more "hall of fame" report. America's Tire/Disocunt Tire (same-same) registered all of the TPMS sensors in my 'new-to-me' wheels. Oh best part - they didn't charge me. At first they said $20 and the ended up telling me 'not to worry about it.' I didn't worry about it, but it was sweet! :)
     
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    I have just had TRD beadlocks installed and was told by the tire shop that the TPM system would not work with these wheels. I did get a letter a while back from Toyota about these wheels. Has anyone else received this letter ?If so ,what was it's purpose?
     
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    I just spent the last hour getting to that damn box, finally got it unplugged and my TPMS light is still on. What gives?
     

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