TPMS- After a Few Years Indicator Blinks, Triggering Found Duplicate IDs!

My half brother borrowed our v to go visit his dying mother-in-law in the hospital. Upon start-up got blinking TPMS light then solid, (typical of dead TPMS sensor battery. Got out my MaxiTPMS ITS600, spent maybe 15 - 20 mins updating it completely, went out to find the dead sensor(s).

Background all 5 tires including spare have a sensor installed, but only 4 register at a time. LF and RF trigger immediately. RR takes a very long time, moving the ITS600 top around the sensor area eventually it triggers OK. Move to the LR and it takes a shorter time to trigger but not immediate like the front, and get a duplicate sensor ID red flag!

Suspicion- Both RR and LR triggered the spare sensor? (See attached image if I am allowed to attach it).


Gonna order a couple of Dorman pre-programmed sensors on Amazon for now.

 

Nope can’t be the spare, tire pressure of the spare should be much higher. Suspect RR is dead which eventually triggered the LR Awaiting sensors from Amazon…

 

Sensors should arrive today, but I thought I’d try again. This time I did not move the ITS600 around just placed it against the tire sidewall angled it towards the sensor and waited. It eventually reported a Failure on RR, so that is the one that’s likely died…

 

I got a slightly larger spare than original to better match the slightly larger 225/50R17 you kindly recommended. (I removed the styrofoam bottom and placed a mat I got for a Nissan Rogue to cushion it). While I had dismounted the old one and put the new one the sensor was installed…

 

BTW- Someone from ATEQ confidently said that their product(s) could program the spare sensor into the car. Based on that I tried with the Autel ITS600, which I’m afraid failed…

 

@prevee5 Yes we can meet up. I accidentally didn’t say that in my PM. I’m meeting a friend for lunch at Raising Cane’s there in Monrovia at 10:30 am I can easily be there by 10 and help you find which of yours is/are dead…

 

@rjparker I grabbed my Techstream clone gear and went to the car. I am not able to change any Main nor 2nd values. I guess I am not tech savvy enough or certain software versions don’t allow it?

(For some reason I thought newer versions do not allow clicking and changing the values on the fly but older ones do)….

Autel ITS600 read all 5 TPMS IDs and programmed the 4 without fuss…

One negative about the Dorman pre-programmed sensors is that they come with a blank New ID sticker, meaning you need a tool that can read its ID…

 

If there’s a pop up blocker I have no idea how to turn it off. My system is basically packaged with a PC. I just install the HDD and boot it up, run VX Manager, make sure the laptop communicates with the VCI, then open TechStream.

I noticed at some point it warns it is not able to communicate with Toyota servers and therefore there is limited capabilities?

I took pictures using my phone of where Utility goes and also where Customize goes after that.

It’s strange but back a long while ago I subscribed to the $65 subscription, was able to even flash an ECU calibration, but yet wasn’t able to do all this. Maybe because my WiFi signal to the laptop was poor at the time? (Now it may be because this is a “clone”)?

 

To be honest, I tried my Autel ITS600, then my Foxwell NT710, and finally the VXDiag MultiDiag (VCI) TechStream clone package, (TechStream twice now). I’m throwing up the white flag of surrender for now….

 

That just asked me for the IDs of 4 sensors, no option to change anything beyond that, (with the 5 min countdown I believe)…

(I printed them out from my ITS600 thankfully)…