Adding Second Set Of Wheels With Snows (TPMS)

My most recent set of winter tires and wheels had the TPMS sensors thrown in as part of a deal. The Gen5 Prius lets me program the second set and swap them in the maintenance menu.

My other Toyota only lets me have 4 TPMS sensors and I have to go to the dealer and pay them to get the sensors working. FU Toyota, bite me. No TPMS for winter wheels on that vehicle.

I won't pay extra for TPMS sensors. I have a pressure gauge and an air compressor in the garage.

 

Kaltire.com

I'd need a second mortgage to buy wheels and tires from a Toyota stealership

Costco usually has decent prices on wheels and tires. If you want to save a little go for 16" wheels and the tires are a lot cheaper than 17's or 19's

 

Depends.

Back in November of 2010, I phoned the dealership we bought our ‘10 from, asking about snow tires and steel rim options. They told me the Prius was a “flagship” vehicle, the only rim option was the OEM alloys, new, for roughly $350 and $450 CDN apiece (15” and 17” rims respectively).

Exasperated, I emailed every local dealership. One responded, saying they thought an older model, 15”, Corolla steel rim would work, but they’d need to check it.

I gave them the go-ahead, rims were $70 CDN apiece (might have been take-offs, but I doubt it, they looked pristine), utilitarian, open-ended, galvanized lug nuts were $31 CDN for the set.

With Michelin X-Ice I got outa there for $1114~ CDN.

For anyone in Vancouver, Westminster Toyota, could be a good option. Hopefully still under the same management now.

 

Our family have used quality clonable sensors and the correct tool for years and cloned the IDs between summer/winter tires.

That is impossible with OEM and most other sensors.

A funny fact is we sometimes get the wrong tire pick up signal when close to the garage/tire storage.

 

TPMS specific, when I got those snows installed, a mechanic came out and asked if I wanted TPMS sensor, while (subconsciously?) shaking his head "no", lol. I agreed.

 

Eric O. Of South Main Auto YouTube pontificates: 10 years and it’s crusher time. He’s in upstate New York. He has 1/2 mm oversized sockets (to fit over rust), routinely hammers socket on before judiciously, loosytighty hitting with air impact, coats everything with fluid film.

Salt must impose a phenomenal toll on auto industry.

 

I don’t subscribe this trend to stock Ghetto rims. It is what it is I guess.

Up here the regular, 5th gen Prius only comes with the 19” glamour rims, a curb-rash vulnerable mix of piano black and clear-coat aluminum. The majority of 5th gen, by a landslide around here, are the plug-in iteration, a high proportion of those with the 17” black rims and black covers. For an otherwise very sleek car, at least to my eye, the black-plastic seem an ill-choice, like sneakers with a tux.

The early years for our ‘10 were thus. But more recently:



Toyota Classic Silver Metallic (1F7) is the touch up paint.

 

No aero wheel covers! You are destroying the environment!