TPMS question when swapping wheels on a 2nd gen

Long story, but I'm trading my brand new wheels & 265/75/16 BFG, AT-KO's locally, because my gas mileage on my 2.7 has literally dropped into V8/V6 territory, all of which negates the reason I got the 4-pot in the first place.

If I swap wheels and tires with a stock Tacoma (Say same year 2014) will I have to do anything interesting about the TPMS light? My truck came with steel wheels, with special TPMS that is different from the standard Alloy Tacoma TPMS.

So the tire shop sold me an aftermarket set, that works flawlessly. I wasn't watching the guy when he was done, so I have no idea how they got the aftermarket sensors to work on the truck, when the spare wheel is still an OEM TPMS??

So my question, If I swap wheels & rubber with another 2014 owner with stock alloys (Say the sport wheels) what will I need to do to make that set of OEM sensors work on my truck. I heard a rumor once on a forum from a different manufacture, that these TPMS are coded to the vin of the vehicle or some kind of nonsense like that.

Would a different set of OEM sensors work on my truck, even if the spare sensor was original when sold with the truck?

Second question, what will the new owner of my wheels and tires have to do, to get my aftermarket sensors to work properly on their truck?

Thanks in advance

Also I know I'm going to lose a bunch of money on this deal, but the long term loss in fuel economy will be much greater, seeing that I work out of my truck. Also this may sound funny, but I want to de-bro my trucks looks so to speak, as some of my peers had commented that the black wheels and off-road tires don't look too professional for a "work truck". One friend said my clients might see it as wasteful spending etc... So I took that to heart and after thinking about it I kind of agree.

-Ryan

 

I definitely have aftermarket sensors, as the OE ones are still attached to my steel wheels sitting on the garage floor. The shop said Toyota steel wheel sensors will only work with Toyota steel wheels, as the angle is just wrong for any other type of wheel if that makes sense.

 

Discount Tire reprograms the sensors on my Civic for free. Computer plugs into the OBDII port and an RFID reader wand that reads each wheel sensor. But they do it for me because I bought my tires from there.

I'll have to find a link but you can buy one of the reprogrammers and do it yourself.

 

http://www.bartecusa.com/tpms-tool-comparison-chart.html
http://tpmstools.ca/products

 

The spare doesn't have a TPMS Sensor. They stopped doing that a while back.

 

Techstream software on a laptop and a Mini VCI cable to connect will allow one to read the codes in the computer, and change them.

If you both can retrieve the codes, pass them along with the wheels, and update the computer.