Confirmed. It works that way
TPMS
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4/5 OEM sensors. I don't really care. This is a system I have intentionally disabled in previous vehicles.
Purchased an extra set of 4 LC/LC dark gray wheels (no TPMS) from FB marketplace and mounted some 265/75/18 BFG KO2's. There on sale at Discount Tire, since the KO3's are not available. Left the Michelin LTX on the spare. Purchased Dill brand TPMS sensors from Discount Tire and had them installed with the tires.
Mounted the new wheels/tires today and did the "Tire Set Switching" procedure as per the manual, page 561. Drove around for 20 minutes and then everything registered. I saved this set at "Set 2", and will be anxious to see how quickly the procedure is when I put the other wheels back on. All good!
Gonna drive them for a couple weeks, then mainly use this set for winter and off-road trips.
Mounted the new wheels/tires today and did the "Tire Set Switching" procedure as per the manual, page 561. Drove around for 20 minutes and then everything registered. I saved this set at "Set 2", and will be anxious to see how quickly the procedure is when I put the other wheels back on. All good!
Gonna drive them for a couple weeks, then mainly use this set for winter and off-road trips.
Well, this didn’t work out as well for me. My LC is at the shop today getting its 5000 mile service and I asked them to take on the challenge of setting my TPMS sensors, since I am at my wits’ end.
Their conclusion is that whatever sensors my wheel guy sold me are incompatible aftermarket sensors. They quoted me $600 for a set of Toyota sensors plus $300 to swap them into the wheels and balance. So when you include the ~$175 I paid for the aftermarket sensors I’d be in for about a grand on TPMS sensors alone. Screw that.
I’m sick of this problem. I’ve decided to drive the summer with the damn low pressure light on, then when I’m ready for my Blizzaks I’ll have Discount Tire pull them off of the OEM wheels, along with the OEM TPMS sensors, and put them onto my new TRD wheels. After that I’ll just pay them to swap the tires every season and sell the OEM wheels.
I realize that might not be as elegant a solution as running a dedicated set of winter wheels. And also that somehow many of you have had more success here than I, even with aftermarket sensors. Just didn’t come together for me, who knows why.
Their conclusion is that whatever sensors my wheel guy sold me are incompatible aftermarket sensors. They quoted me $600 for a set of Toyota sensors plus $300 to swap them into the wheels and balance. So when you include the ~$175 I paid for the aftermarket sensors I’d be in for about a grand on TPMS sensors alone. Screw that.
I’m sick of this problem. I’ve decided to drive the summer with the damn low pressure light on, then when I’m ready for my Blizzaks I’ll have Discount Tire pull them off of the OEM wheels, along with the OEM TPMS sensors, and put them onto my new TRD wheels. After that I’ll just pay them to swap the tires every season and sell the OEM wheels.
I realize that might not be as elegant a solution as running a dedicated set of winter wheels. And also that somehow many of you have had more success here than I, even with aftermarket sensors. Just didn’t come together for me, who knows why.
And then, after trying to get the sensors to work for at least six weeks, on the same day I wrote the above they finally woke up. I kid you not.
Something else that was different in my experience than the manual says - at no point did I get any message telling me that the initialization process for the TPMS was complete, or however they wrote that. The way I found out mine were finally working was by literally giving up on the process.
I turned off the initialization routine which at that point was still saying “setting tire position while driving” with “- - “ as the pressure for all the tires. I immediately noticed that the low pressure icon turned off unexpectedly. Then I navigated to the tire pressure display and lo and behold it was reading out the pressure.
I happened to be parked next to my winter wheels in the garage when this happened. I figured the truck was picking up the signal from those. So i drove around a bit and turned the car off and on to see if it lost that signal at a distance. Several days have passed and I’ve driven all around town and it’s still reading.
I turned off the initialization routine which at that point was still saying “setting tire position while driving” with “- - “ as the pressure for all the tires. I immediately noticed that the low pressure icon turned off unexpectedly. Then I navigated to the tire pressure display and lo and behold it was reading out the pressure.
I happened to be parked next to my winter wheels in the garage when this happened. I figured the truck was picking up the signal from those. So i drove around a bit and turned the car off and on to see if it lost that signal at a distance. Several days have passed and I’ve driven all around town and it’s still reading.
I do believe the TPMS sensors require centrifugal force to wake up the transmitter (not sure if the vehicle's TPMS module sends a wake up signal)........ or they can be woke up by a transmitted signal ie.... Techstream computer or tire shop's magic box.
