TPMS

Can a TPMS light be disconnected and should it be done? These sensors are expensive, if you have to get a tire store to install.

 

No idea, I hope someone knows as I’m curious myself

 

Just saw a post about cutting a wire behind the glove box on one of the Facebook groups. I live with it for now, my tires are shot so I’ll slap some in once I swap to new wheels with my next set of tires.

 

I want to know as well. If you got to a tire place, say Discount Tire for example, will they use your existing TPMS with new tires with some sort of warning that they might not work? They are expensive, and I feel like your current ones would still work, at least for awhile. $61 each at Discount Tire?!? Can that be right? An extra $244 for TPMS?!? WTF. That doesn't seem right.

 

You can get them on eBay for like $60.

 

Another way to ignore this is a piece of black electrical tape over the light, then there are no cutting of wires.

 

They aren't too expensive on Rock Auto or even less expensive on Amazon.

 

I have sensors in 3 vehicles that I bought from Amazon. They all work great and have been for 3-5 years. They average about $20 each. On 2 of the 3 vehicles, I replaced the sensors proactively before they went bad. I was getting new tires anyway and knew the old sensors wouldn't outlast the new tires. I ordered them from Amazon and the tire store installed them when mounting new tires at no extra cost.

The 3rd vehicle was a Wrangler I bought used and the previous owner had removed the sensors. It cost me $10/tire to have them installed.

I strongly advise keeping working sensors. They aren't that expensive, nor hard to maintain. I mean $60-$80 every 7-10 years is nothing. They aren't designed to replace an air gauge, but to warn you of a sudden tire deflation while you are driving. Has happened to me twice. When driving at 75 mph I ran over something in the road that punctured a tire and the light came on. I had just enough time to get to the shoulder of the road and stopped before the tire was completely flat. Without the sensors I'd have had a tire come apart at 75 mph.