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Here’s how to replace your TPMS sensors

2010-2015 Toyota Prius TPMS sensor replacement

 

I've never seen a manual bead buster before, that was cool.

 

yeah, this isn't bad. I've used the Hunter bead breaker before at the dealership, those are air powered and was nice. This will do just fine for just replacing TPMS. I didn't want a tool that removes the tire as well because then you'd have to balance the wheel.

 

Nice video. Have you ever tried replacing the batteries?
I saw a video of someone doing it. Not too difficult.

They're wheel covers not hub caps.
Toyota manual says 76ftp, not 80. Unless they changed it since 2010....

 

Another way to activate the sensors is to simply drive about 100 ft.

 

that’s funny how the 2 is different, hub caps and wheel covers.

as for the torque, 76-80 ft lbs isn’t much of a big difference. Just make sure they don’t fall off.


As for the tpms sensor battery change, I have seen someone open up the silicone and replace the battery, I’m trying to figure out what type of silicone it is since it’s rubber and not those cement type rtv. Do you happen to know what it is?

 

good to know. I didn’t have to do that, the scan tool took care of it

 

The sensors have motion detectors and go to sleep when stopped. This saves the batteries. A rf signal from enabled scanners can wake them (Techstream can not), lowering air pressure to an alarm point will activate them and simply driving wakes them.

The lower air pressure trick is a good way to determine which sensor is bad; however when you can buy four for $40 good sense dictates changing them all.

Harbor Freight has manual tire machines for $59 and $79. I simply bought four sensors, wrote the ids into the tpms ecu ahead of time and then paid a small tire shop $60 to change all four. Thirty minutes later drove away and the tpms light was gone.

A small price to pay for ten more years. You get a warning when cold weather dramatically reduces pressures overnight or when a nail has reduced one tire to 20 psi but it still feels normal. Saving one tire or one injury makes tpms a no brainer.

 

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