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Fake TPMs shipped and sold by Amazon

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Main Forum' started by Den, Jul 20, 2024 at 7:45 PM.

  1. Tombukt2

    Tombukt2 Senior Member

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    Other brands of TPMS sensors are somewhat a lot easier to use too other common tools that are used in the industry can strike up a relearn with a u t e l sensors without issue I got this little $25 tool made by I'm not even sure who that will do the relearn feature with almost anything it can communicate with IE on the same megahertz or gigahertz scale of the sensors. Like Toyota software can't do that You have to manually input numbers and all of that unless the new version of tech can now do this whereas the TPMS sensor manufacturers that make their own tools that work with other sensors and do all that TPMS stuff this little $25 tool can strike up a relearn with those because the relearn feature is built into the TPMS sensor whereas I guess the ones in the Toyota don't have that feature they're dumber or something
     
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    I wish you reconsider. According to my tire center guys, they have several hundred vehicles ( like the one on picture above) in the shop each year w/o TPMs vs just few who have them. Most people stop driving or carefully roll down the road or tow to nearest tire shop if tire completely flat with few few exceptions like fast and catastrophic tire failure. It’s saves a lot of repair $ ( new rim and tire) most importantly can save l life’s
     
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  3. Tombukt2

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    So we're saying TPMS sensors save lives and possibly catastrophic tire repairs because people notice the tires low because the lights flashing and they put air in the tire I guess. Not sure when all the tires started blowing up or what's happened but shoot I'm driving around probably half of my adolescent years in tires with probably not enough air low air crappy tires dry rotted you name it and even doing that all those years considering now we're hardly ever any flats a few tires blew out I don't think while driving You know just regular dumb stuff.
     
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    The rock that did in my RR tire in Yellowstone made a loud noise all right, but after that the handling of the car didn't seem at all affected, and I might not have pulled over so soon if I hadn't seen the tire light come on.
     
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    Those kind of sellers seem mastered the copying making it real hard to shop for real ones.
     
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    Back in the day, before they required all new cars to have TPMS, everybody commonly had exploded tires like that....pffffft!...