TPMS warning not turning on after winter tires mounted?

[sedakill]

Hi all,

I have a 2010 SE highlander. I just recently bought a set of limited hybrid wheels to be used for my winter tires. I had them mounted with a set of 245/55/19 DM-V1's today at discount tire and i didn't have them switch out the TPMS off my other set of wheels, but my car's not throwing up any warning indiciators for the TPMS monitors not being in place. Anyone have ideas why this would be or if discount did anything to alter the behavior of the system?

thanks all

[TrailDust]

Check your invoice for details about TPMS sensors that came with your tires, it should be there. Knowing that your ride is a 2010 Highlander, Discount Tires should have installed the proper tires with TPMS sensors aboard. It would be easy for you to check, just let the air out of one of your tires below about 28 PSI and your warning light should come on indicating that your sensors have been installed and registered correctly by Discount Tire.

[Thunderchief]

I posted a few weeks ago that I got bit by TPMS from my spare tire. As the weather cooled, the pressure dropped and the warning went off. I had been screwing with the tires all day before a tip from the dealer told me to drop the spare and check the PSI.

[Dman1]

Originally Posted by sedakill

Hi all,

I have a 2010 SE highlander. I just recently bought a set of limited hybrid wheels to be used for my winter tires. I had them mounted with a set of 245/55/19 DM-V1's today at discount tire and i didn't have them switch out the TPMS off my other set of wheels, but my car's not throwing up any warning indiciators for the TPMS monitors not being in place. Anyone have ideas why this would be or if discount did anything to alter the behavior of the system?

thanks all

Last winter was my first with my 2009. When I first had my winter tires put on (without TPMS sensors), my TPMS warning light did not come on for quite a while. In the wintertime, I typically only do short trips, and always park at home in the garage. My summer tires (with TPMS sensors) were also in my garage not too far from my HL, and my thought, at the time, was that my trips weren't quite long enough to engage this warning light (i.e. always searching for the TPMS sensor signal), and the TPMS system would detect the sensors on my summer tires when I parked for the night in my garage, and reset the system.

As the winter season rolled along last year, I moved my summer wheels to the back corner of my garage, and I am guessing that they were too far away to detect the signal, and then the light went on. This was also the case this year when I put on my winters.

So, I am guessing that your summer tires with TPMS sensors are stored very close to your HL. All I can say is to be patient. Your TPMS warning light will eventually come on if your winters do not have TPMS sensors that are programmed into the system.

[jimmied]

I was always under the impression that the TPMS systems will only register a code when they detect a significant difference in pressures. being that there is only the tpms in the spare tire, there is no different sensor the system can compare to, therefore the system will not send a code.

My old ridgeline worked in that fashion from what I recall. One could just add a set of aftermarket wheels with no sensors but as long as the spare was registered, no code....

anyone confirm?

[sedakill]

Originally Posted by Dman1

Last winter was my first with my 2009. When I first had my winter tires put on (without TPMS sensors), my TPMS warning light did not come on for quite a while. In the wintertime, I typically only do short trips, and always park at home in the garage. My summer tires (with TPMS sensors) were also in my garage not too far from my HL, and my thought, at the time, was that my trips weren't quite long enough to engage this warning light (i.e. always searching for the TPMS sensor signal), and the TPMS system would detect the sensors on my summer tires when I parked for the night in my garage, and reset the system.

As the winter season rolled along last year, I moved my summer wheels to the back corner of my garage, and I am guessing that they were too far away to detect the signal, and then the light went on. This was also the case this year when I put on my winters.

So, I am guessing that your summer tires with TPMS sensors are stored very close to your HL. All I can say is to be patient. Your TPMS warning light will eventually come on if your winters do not have TPMS sensors that are programmed into the system.

This was exactly what happened. I moved my highlander down the street for a few hours and drove around for 10 minutes and it came on this time.

thanks again all for the help.

[TrailDust]

Another Scooby mystery solved thanks to Dman....

[mike43068]

I was thinking about getting snow tires without tpms to save money too. Has anyone had issues with resetting when putting the original tires back on in the spring?

The dealer told me that the tpms would have to be reprogrammed at the end of the winter season if the low pressure light stayed on all winter long. I thought I could just put the original tires back on and press the reset button and all would be ok.

[high09ltd]

Post #4 related to getting the TPMS light to turn on. In your case if you locate your summer tires near the car overnight, this will reset your TPMS sensor light (make the light go out) on the vehicle when you start up. You will need to stay put for a few minutes for the computer to detect. However, the light will come back on after 10mi of driving when the computer rechecks.

Reason will have it, you do not need to reprogram in the spring if the computer is still detecting. I would check a few more dealers out just in case this one is giving you the gears.