2023 Prime: First Flat 19" Low Profiles

Damm, that sucks.

 

It could have been a sidewall....
new or plug?

 

Carry plug kit and compressor and pliers. Fix while still on car.

 

Doable, but easier with the wheel off. I experienced similar, with a plug/repair kit AND scissor jack and spare (3rd gen std equipment), luckily in a parking lot.

It was near-freezing out, and very breezy. I managed to score some insulated gloves in a store (keep a pair in the car now), swapped to the spare, drove home, plug repaired the flat (in the house), reinflated it with a floor-standing bicycle pump, reinstalled it.

This was close to a decade back; I finally replaced that set of (snow) tires, including the repaired one, about a week back.

Yeah I don’t think glue is a requirement; the plug-repair kit I’m using (BlackJack) has a tub of goop, but it just a lubricant. The plug repair mechanically fills the hole, could be done dry. The rope plugs are very tacky though.

 

I hit my repairs with a heat gun after the contact cement has had a chance to set.
Sometimes throwing a patch over the top and melt it in, depending where on the tread the puncture is.

I don't know what to say about the app, other than I've read a lot of complaints about how it functions or the lack there of.

 

Ouch! Not as bad here but pretty toasty for us, and a lot of places don’t have AC, ours included. Todays high predicted to be 90F.

 

You ordered the correct wheel. Getting the wheel hub was a bit extra(), since you'll only ever use four at once, but I suppose it would make rotating tires that little bit easier and quicker.

 

I think the main word in Toyota’s description is “ornament”, and “hub” refers to its location. As usual, Toyota manages to come up up with a totally obscure title, in this case for a centre cap.

more succinctly a “hub cap”, but that’s come to mean a full wheel cover

 

Hello, this is a side question to @tovli : by any chance, do you have a picture of the TIRE PRESSURE MONITOR, PN: 42607-47020 ? I'm trying to figure out the manufacturer reference of this device. I wish to order 4 of them here in France, but for some reason (silicium component shortage ? My Prius Prime was delivered with only one electronic key) they are really really expensive here. I suppose there are equivalent devices to be found but was not able to find any yet.

 

I’m not sure they’re wrong. I understand with 5th gen you can swap between 2 sets of wheels/tires, and the car will recognize both. But “maybe” a first “introduction” is still required? Not sure. Either way, $300 is pretty brazen.

 

I learned recently that after putting new sensors on a Hyundai, the car just figures it out on its own with a bit of driving.

 

When I had my wheels changed the day I picked up the car, I asked about swapping the sensors; they told me it was a no brainer w/no charge- the sensors worked great with no issues afterwards.

 

If that’s the original sensors, just swapped into new rims, there’s no reason they shouldn’t continue to work fine.

 

I’m wondering if an initial setup of TPMS sensors is still required, and then with subsequent swaps (between tire sets), the sensors are automatically recognized.