TPMS verification 3rd gen.

All sensors send out the tire pressure. Whether your vehicle displays the pressure depends on the vehicle, not the sensor. The sensors don't know what pressure is OK, and what's not, that comes from the receiver interpreting the pressures it's given... it just doesn't tell you what they are because it lacks somewhere to display it. Likewise, whether it displays position depends on the vehicle, and whether you have to tell it what sensor is where, or just which 4 or 5 sensor IDs to read.

You can use the alloy wheel (or most aftermarket) sensors on any wheel, but the ones for the OE steelies are angled too sharply, the sensor body hits before you can tighten the stem down. You could rotate them "up", but it makes mounting the tire a pain, and about 100% guarantees that someone who doesn't know that's in there like that would snap it off dismounting your tire.

If you communicated your issue to tire shops coherently and got no good answer, you need to find a new shop, this crap ain't that hard, especially with a good TPMS reset tool and/or programmer. The Redi-sensors are great (and priced right), only catch is the one part # does a ton of communication protocols, and you need a tool capable of "unlocking" them, which tells it to look for a TPMS receiver and work on that protocol... the Autel tool I have easy access to couldn't do mine, but a Bartec did (and read the IDs and wrote them to the ECU) in under 5 minutes.

 

I am trying to determine if my oem steelie sensors will work with my aftermarket rims, what is lowline va highline in terms if compatibility ?

 

According to fb40dash5

Who undoubtedly has more knowledge than I, said all the sensors transmit data such as location and pressure but only the higher trim levels
can show this data.
I read somewhere that “Highline” sensors transmitted pressure and location and that “Low line sensors” were for a light only.
My SR only has a light and does indicate pressure or location. Some people state that they just turn their steel sensors around for the Alloy wheels
but this leaves them vulnerable to breakage.
I’d rather try and do it the right way if I knew what that was without going to the dealer or paying for a high dollar programmer.

Good luck!

 

None of them are transmitting "location" per se, they transmit their ID#, PSI, and sometimes temperature and battery life.

Whether your vehicle displays pressure & location depends on whether it allows you to program in, for example, "OK, sensor ID 4721347 is the left front, 4729234 is the right front..." etc. Sometimes you can do those through the cluster, sometimes by activating sensors LF->RF->RR->LR in order, a few you need to actually do with a programming tool.

Personally, I prefer the simple idiot light setup, only gotta worry about sensors when you have to replace them, or swap wheels. I don't care for any of it & I'd rather check myself, but since they mandated the BS, sure, gimme an idiot light, I'm not going to claim I was near as good about checking them as I probably should be.

My advice would be to go find a local tire place that doesn't look shady (or maybe they do... my go-to kinda looks like a hole in the wall, but they also move 7 figures worth of tires a year, and my hookup prices usually beat Tire Rack by a few bucks) and ask them how much to set you up with sensors for your truck, but with alloys, and what they're using. Most tire places I know stock common/programmable sensors in semi-bulk (a dozen or more at a time) and get pretty good prices on them, at least compared to you buying local. Probably not as cheap as buying some generic stuff online, but since you're at the mercy of someone who knows how to make them work, you can't really expect them to do that if you're taking away any parts profit...

 

@fb40dash5

I appreciate your input on this issue, never having to deal with this, I’ve always checked my own tires for wear, damage and pressures.
I’m probably over complicating things but the tire shops I went to (One being Discount tire) and the other a local shop in town
really didn’t seem too knowledgeable but they were pretty busy so I understand them not being very forthcoming with information.
I’ll try them again another time and thank’s again for the information and advice you provided!

 

Sorry to bring back an old thread but I just got a 2020 SR trim and I guess they have these "Low line" sensors that do not provide individual readings? Anyway to enable that feature?

 

They do provide individual readings, just not on the dash MFD. Download the Toyota app, add your vehicle, and you can view individual tire pressures from the app. Also fuel level, ODO.