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I have study the instruction/user manual, but cannot find information on what this warning message is?
I need som help.
Sorry for my bad english, but im Norwegian. :-)
I add a picture of the instrument panel.
Have you been messing with the menu on the cluster? You may check to make sure you didn't accidentally switch it to secondary TPMS. The car can accept 2, if you accidentally changed it while scrolling through the menu it may be looking for sensors that don't exist.
Ok. No, i have tryed both, but the message wont go off.
As i live in Norway and need to have 2 set of tyres, one for summer and one for winter, i think that the winter tyres dont
have sensors... :-(
Yeah it's your TPMS system and unfortunately unless you register new sensors for the winter it won't go away. There have been some people on CL who've made a quote unquote "pipe bomb" with a sensor as a fix. You can probably find it with the search.
Ok. No, i have tryed both, but the message wont go off.
As i live in Norway and need to have 2 set of tyres, one for summer and one for winter, i think that the winter tyres dont
have sensors... :-(
Anyway, thanks for your advise :-)
Yeah, if the winter tires do not have sensors it will continue to display that message. The only way to fix it is either install TPMS sensors in the wheels and register the sensors as a second set via Techstream, or like others mentioned here, you can do the "pipe bomb" trick. That is where people register the sensors then put all 4 in a piece of pvc, seal it up with end caps and install a valve stem in it to pressure it up to fool the system into thinking it's ok.
or like others mentioned here, you can do the "pipe bomb" trick. That is where people register the sensors then put all 4 in a piece of pvc, seal it up with end caps and install a valve stem in it to pressure it up to fool the system into thinking it's ok.
Wouldn't it be only marginally more difficult to just install sensors in the winter tires?
2IS are getting up there in age where the TPMS batteries are at the end of its life. I had the same issue where the tire shop found out 2 of the TPMS had low batteries, so I bought a couple new OEMs online, changed the sensors out, tire ship reprogrammed them to the car, and everything is good and clear
Wouldn't it be only marginally more difficult to just install sensors in the winter tires?
Yes. I think a lot of people just don't want to deal with buying another set of sensors, installing them and then having them programmed with Techstream. If you just keep reusing the same set of TPMS, you'd have to dismount and remount tires every time you swapped wheels so that's a way around it. Either that or they have aftermarket wheels that aren't TPMS compatible...
If you keep the summer wheels close enough to the car, such as in a garage next to the car, the car will pick up the sensors and the light will go away. It usually takes a day or so before the car realizes the wheels are not nearby any longer and shows the error message.
The best solution is to get a set of sensors off eBay, I believe I got a set before for like $30-50. First, I tried the pipe trick and it did the job until I had an excuse to get the sensors properly installed.
Buy some PVC pipe and 2 end caps, glue one cap on, and then put the sensors inside with some sort of soft materials to prevent the sensors from flying around, then drill a hole in the other end cap and install a schrader valve, throw in the sensors, glue on the other end cap, then use a bike pump to pressurize to 38 PSI. Then you can get a tire shop to program them as your secondary TPMS sensors (our cars can be programmed for 2 sets). Or... get Toyota Techstream and the USB cable and program them yourself. You will have to read up on how to do this. Make sure you take photos of the serial numbers on each sensor, as you will need the numbers for programming.
I would just ignore the light for the next few months. Like Getafewliv said, if your summer wheels are close enough the light will go off.
If you did get another set of sensors, I curious if you could have them programmed and just leave them in the trunk instead of spending the money to have them installed on each wheel.
If you did get another set of sensors, I curious if you could have them programmed and just leave them in the trunk instead of spending the money to have them installed on each wheel.
Well, you could. But without pressure on them you will still have the light on 24/7, t will just say low tire instead of check system. That is why people put them in a pressurized tube of PVC.
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