Tape
Well-Known Member
I have to do this in two parts because I keep getting an error from the website
I'm planning on taking a trip so I wanted to get some wheels with some highway tires on them or something with less friction than the Goodyear Wrangler.
My plan was to buy somebody's wheels that had the TPMS installed with practically new tires, this way I could just put them on my truck and not have to worry about the sensors and the truck would see that they had OEM sensors and adjust accordingly. What a wake up call, I had no idea you had to have them reprogram the trucks computer so I guess you could say I found out the hard way. In my mind I thought if I took a 2019 Tacoma, remove its wheels and put them on my truck and everything would be fine but it doesn't work that way. The reason for this is every TPMS sensor has its own ID code or serial number and it gets locked into the vehicles computer so when the computer doesn't see the serial number is programmed to see, it throws a light.
The reset under the steering is used only for when rotating the wheels and will not reset the CPU like I assumed.
I just wanted people to know that you just can't swap wheels from one truck to another. Now I have to either take my truck to Toyota & let them charged me about $250 to reprogram the wheels to my truck or put up with the idiot light and I can't stand when my vehicles are not right like they're supposed to be.
I did some research and found out I could buy scan tool that would re-program the trucks computer. This went on for about two weeks, finding the wheels I want and the scan tool that would work with our trucks.
I wanted to use the:
ATEQ QUICKSET TPMS TOOL SCANNER
Which is only $125.95 and you can have winter tires and summer tires programmed into this so when you turn it on you just select which one you wanted and it did it automatically, very simple but it only works with windows and I have a MacBook.
I'm planning on taking a trip so I wanted to get some wheels with some highway tires on them or something with less friction than the Goodyear Wrangler.
My plan was to buy somebody's wheels that had the TPMS installed with practically new tires, this way I could just put them on my truck and not have to worry about the sensors and the truck would see that they had OEM sensors and adjust accordingly. What a wake up call, I had no idea you had to have them reprogram the trucks computer so I guess you could say I found out the hard way. In my mind I thought if I took a 2019 Tacoma, remove its wheels and put them on my truck and everything would be fine but it doesn't work that way. The reason for this is every TPMS sensor has its own ID code or serial number and it gets locked into the vehicles computer so when the computer doesn't see the serial number is programmed to see, it throws a light.
The reset under the steering is used only for when rotating the wheels and will not reset the CPU like I assumed.
I just wanted people to know that you just can't swap wheels from one truck to another. Now I have to either take my truck to Toyota & let them charged me about $250 to reprogram the wheels to my truck or put up with the idiot light and I can't stand when my vehicles are not right like they're supposed to be.
I did some research and found out I could buy scan tool that would re-program the trucks computer. This went on for about two weeks, finding the wheels I want and the scan tool that would work with our trucks.
I wanted to use the:
ATEQ QUICKSET TPMS TOOL SCANNER
Which is only $125.95 and you can have winter tires and summer tires programmed into this so when you turn it on you just select which one you wanted and it did it automatically, very simple but it only works with windows and I have a MacBook.
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