2024 PRIUS XLE AWD TPMS SENSOR QUESTION

I believe the 315MHz US sensors are the "old" ones and the 433MHz Japan/European sensors are the "new" ones. I checked the OP and saw they bought the 433MHz version before I replied to them. They should be okay just letting the car do the work.



My understanding of the difference is that the 315MHz frequency band in Europe is reserved for something else. That's why they had to make 433MHz sensors. (this all happened many years ago) I assume it was cheaper to build the 315MHz sensors back then, so it was worth it to make two different versions. Since Toyota seems to be switching over to 433MHz for everything now, I assume the production costs between the two versions is now low enough that it doesn't make sense to keep making one version for North America and one version for the rest of the world.

 

Try buying from a different tire shop next time...when I got my new winter wheels they "programmed" it for free. The only scammers I know who charge to program the TPMS are the Toyota Stealerships.

Their free programming via ODB2 didn't work, I had to manually tell the car to learn the new set of TMPS through the maintenance menus.

 

The Amazon search results for '2026 Prius TPMS sensors' are littered with 315 mHz units. They call them 'preprogrammed' as well.

 

If the frequency is different, it will not work for sure.

 

Once again, everything I'm seeing says that the gen5 can recognize BOTH the current 433MHz sensors(which are what come with the car) as well as the legacy 315MHz sensors. However it's likely that the 315MHz sensors would need to be programmed with a scantool.

The car comes with part numbers 42607-47010 or 42607-0E090(newest version). Both are 433MHz.

The official Toyota parts website also lists 42607-47020 as fitting the gen5, which is a 315MHz sensor.

 

Weird stuff, man.
edit: Doing some internet searches, I only come up with 315 mHz for those part numbers.

 

For instance:
(It's got the groovy rubber stem too, lol.)

 

I didn't. I had to look outside of the Toyota page, as in post #29.

 

The whole winter tires/wheels situation sucks.

 

I would still do the cloned original TPMS transmitters route.

If you had it done by a tire dealer like Discount Tire, they are guaranteed for 6 years or 70,000 miles.

 

I have a suspicion it may not be quite so simple. The frequency may not be inherently linked to the programming need. I would expect the higher-level protocol to be independent of the radio frequency.

Toyota themselves may only currently supply manually-programmed (old protocol) 315MHz and automatically-detected (new protocol) 433MHz in North America, but it's possible that you could use the old protocol at 433MHz, and it may be that's what these third-party sensors are doing. (Presumably Toyota would have shipped with that in Europe previously, even if never in the US).

 

Where are you seeing part numbers 42607-47010 or 42607-0E090 there?

Mind you, the fact they're rubber-stemmed is supposed to indicate (according to Car Care Nut) that they're new style - so maybe those are new-style auto-programming 315 MHz ones?

(I'm not sure if I'm 100% convinced that the metal/rubber stem thing also 100% correlates though, across markets. My spare set got yet another part ID 42607-02070 from the Toyota dealer, and they're metal stemmed, but I thought they were new style. )