To Those Selling Take-Off's w/o TPMS

I plan on disabling the stupid system first time it makes a peep...

 

I purchased a set of dealer take off alloys last winter to replace the corroded alloys on my Tacoma. Same exact wheels just 5 years newer with no corrosion at all, and I got a great deal that I couldn't pass up. New alloy wheels didn't come with TPMS sensors or lug nuts but came with center caps. No problem because I already had TPMS sensors and lug nuts for the same style of wheel. I had the new wheels along with new tires put on my Tacoma last week and the tire shop swapped the TPMS sensors from the old wheels to the new wheels for 2/10 hour worth of labor ($19) and threw some rubber valve stems in the old alloys for free. They only had to pop the bead on the old tires to get the sensors out so they left the tires on the old wheels for me.

I figured they would charger me extra to dismount the old tires and then I would sell the tires and wheels separately, but they left the tires on the wheels, put rubber valve stems in and pumped them full of air, all for $19 on top of what I paid for the new tires.

Sold the old alloys with tires mounted to some guy in Maine the next day. He had an older Tundra and said they would fit, and the old tires were only two years old and could probably go another 20k miles. He didn't care that they lacked TPMS sensors and I have no idea if he even has the correct lug nuts for the alloys, but he paid cash and I didn't ask questions.

 

The reason people swap them to the new wheels is because getting new ones isn't cheap, at all. And you'd have to pay the tire shop to install those new ones anyway. Every time I've done it they swapped the TPMS' for me at no extra charge.

 

Sellers ONLY care about themselves. Buyers ONLY care about themselves. So no use trying to make logical arguments between the two. Since we have to program new to us TPMS (new or used) to the truck anyway buyers may not be saving much time or money unless their seller was diligent in providing the information regarding each TPMS identification. If they didn’t you might have to remove the tire or the TPMS in order to get the info anyway.

I thought it was easier than this but it isn’t. Either you have a dealer or tire shop switch your TPMS program each time you swap one set of rims to another (summer, winters) or you have to buy a programmer (approx $100) to do it yourself.

 

A trigger tool will read the sensor ID's without removing them. Programming is another good reason to keep your old sensors. No need to reprogram your truck if you keep your old sensors. Buyer will need to reprogram their truck regardless of whether they buy new sensors or buy used ones with their wheels.