2015 RX350 FWD, 34,300 miles.

I will perform the routine 35,000-mile service myself. Part of that is a tire rotation. I have read about owners triggering their TPMS dashboard warnings just by doing a routine tire rotation. So how do you either prevent this from happening or turn off the warning after it occurs?

Not sure where you heard that. It should not work that way. I have rotated tires on both the RX and SC many times without any issues. Also, I just had new tires put on the 15 RX and it is highly unlikely that they were all put back on in the same position.

I read it here on the forum a week or so ago but I do not recall the title of the thread it was in. I thought it was highly unusual and that is why I asked the question. My 2013 Outback 3.6R has TPMS sensors and they have never caused an issue during or after the multiple tire rotations I have performed on that vehicle.

Shouldn't be an issue in the RX, I've rotated my tires multiple times without issue. You might have been reading for another model? My IS for example has TPMS setup for each tire. It'll display the pressure for each of the 4 ties individually. If the positions change, the readings may not show the correct tire. However I do not rotate the ties for that car as the tires are staggered and directional.

Glad to hear that my upcoming tire rotation should go smoothly. If it does not, I will report it here.

Any thoughts about the rotation pattern?

With the dinky spare which will keep it out of the loop, would you be doing X or front to back or weird paper-clip.

Any one knows what does Lexus say?

Salim

For vehicles with non-staggered wheels and non-directional tires, I have been doing the typical X rotation pattern for more than 40 years. This usually gives me the longest treadlife.

IN your years, do you ever move one wheel front to back (or reverse)? If you strictly do the X then the tires can only be in two positions. The one I am talking about (paper clip) is you start by say moving the right front to right back, old right-back moved to front left, old front-left goes to left-back, old left back goes to front right. You can have other variations of this, but all wheels get to assume all positions.

What does the service dept do?

Salim

Yes, I have rotated tires just front-to-back and back-to-front before, and will occasionally do that just to change the pattern (especially if it is on a set of tires that I really like). My wife's 2006 Jaguar XK8 has staggered wheels and tires, so I can only rotate them to different sides of the same axle.

Frankly, for any vehicle with the same-sized wheels and tires at all four corners, any occasional rotation pattern is better than none at all. I would bet that the majority of vehicle owners here in the U.S. never bother to rotate their tires at all. They do not care enough to bother with it.