Last week I rotated my tires and I have the little hand held battery operated tool that lets you 're-learn' the position of your tires after you rotate them. All the honking and double honk at the end to confirm etc....
All that went fine, as usual... but this week the TPMS system 'lost' the left rear tire.
It gave me a generic box on the display to service the Tire Pressure monitoring system.
When I viewed the tires, the other three showed up fine, but the left rear tire just had dashes there (like when you're using your spare.)
I used the tool to try to relearn them, and all three of the other tires will make it honk, but that last tire will not.
My assumption is that the sensor in that tire went out.
I'm out of warranty, and local Firestone wants $250 to replace one tire sensor.
My question is:
Can I just buy a sensor and have a tire shop replace it, and just use my tool to 'learn it'.... or are the sensors somehow programmed into the thing where a more complicated device is needed to 'add' a new sensor to the system.
I'm just looking at this basically:
https://www.amazon.com/ACDelco-13598771-Original-Equipment-Monitoring/dp/B01E6EQV1W/ref=asc_df_B01E6EQV1W/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693634751452&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17521802307795449216&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9025859&hvtargid=pla-451815232515&mcid=c831a19160963bc79b14c63eecd2c167&gad_source=1&th=1
Thanks for any input or help!