How To Remove Tps Warning

lowazztruck · March 5, 2009

my dad had installed new factory take off wheels on his truck with larger tires and now the tps light comes on. is there any way to dis engage this?

Zembonez · March 5, 2009

NOPE.

It's a federally mandated item. No workaround that I am aware of. Why not just put the sensors in the new tires/wheels? TPMS is a very good thing that has saved numerous people in here from blowouts. Makes no sense to circumvent it.

BuckFeverZ · March 5, 2009

Nope. I believe its a government safety feature just like airbags.

kal el · March 5, 2009

you can circumvent it, but I wouldnt do it. My buddy bet me that I could not bypass the system, he had larger tires on new rims and didnt switch the sensor so I played with it for a little bit. I wont say competly how I did it , because if someone copied it and got hurt they would blame me. What I will say is it started with a bell jar and ended up with a custom welded tube. the sensors are not even on the rims, and you can do the relearn procedure. Like I said before I wouldnt do it on mine if they had it but, I wasnt just going to say ok i cant do it.

Zembonez · March 5, 2009

you can circumvent it, but I wouldnt do it. My buddy bet me that I could not bypass the system, he had larger tires on new rims and didnt switch the sensor so I played with it for a little bit. I wont say competly how I did it , because if someone copied it and got hurt they would blame me. What I will say is it started with a bell jar and ended up with a custom welded tube. the sensors are not even on the rims, and you can do the relearn procedure. Like I said before I wouldnt do it on mine if they had it but, I wasnt just going to say ok i cant do it.

That would be "tricking" the system by actually having sensors present. I've heard of some people placing all 4 in their spare tire and tricking the system that way... Hardly a thing that is justified by any stretch of logic...

Deactivating the system is another story entirely.

Phazer_II · March 6, 2009

I bought an extra set of sensors for my winter studded tires, but I found they wouldn't fit the factory 16" alloy rims I got. I took a direction like the earlier post, but I certainly don't feel guilty about it.

I can take care of my own tire pressures, thank you anyway, Big Brother...

tobias · March 6, 2009

You probably hate your air bags too then, huh?

Phazer_II · March 6, 2009

Well, my daughters '07 Jeep Liberty doesn't even have factory TPMS...so she should continue making payments, but it's certainly too unsafe to drive?

VR021302 · March 6, 2009

Just pull the bulb out

tobias · March 6, 2009

Well, my daughters '07 Jeep Liberty doesn't even have factory TPMS...so she should continue making payments, but it's certainly too unsafe to drive?

Say what?

Zembonez · March 6, 2009

Well, my daughters '07 Jeep Liberty doesn't even have factory TPMS...so she should continue making payments, but it's certainly too unsafe to drive?

If it's an 07 delivered in the USA it had it when it was new. It's Federally mandated for all light duty vehicles.

Here is the NHTSA rule from August of 2005.

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA...-August2005.pdf

Phazer_II · March 7, 2009

If it's an 07 delivered in the USA it had it when it was new. It's Federally mandated for all light duty vehicles.

On page 11 of the pdf, it's noted that there is a phase-in period, so a vehicle doesn't necessarily have to meet the mandate until a manufacture date of 8/31/2007.

The whole point of my second post was that there are literally millions of vehicles on the highway without TPMS, so circumventing the feature isn't akin to playing Russian Roulette with the lives of your family.

GMAnimal · March 7, 2009

If it's an 07 delivered in the USA it had it when it was new. It's Federally mandated for all light duty vehicles.

On page 11 of the pdf, it's noted that there is a phase-in period, so a vehicle doesn't necessarily have to meet the mandate until a manufacture date of 8/31/2007.

The whole point of my second post was that there are literally millions of vehicles on the highway without TPMS, so circumventing the feature isn't akin to playing Russian Roulette with the lives of your family.

Actually ALL vehicles marketed as 2007 models were required to have a system in place that monitored tire perssures. Some use computer monitoring of wheel rotation instead of sensors but it is there. My Tahoe doesn't have TPMS and nobody has died in it yet. I do think it would be nice and cant imagine why anybody would want to disable it.

shocktrp · March 8, 2009

NOPE.

It's a federally mandated item. No workaround that I am aware of. Why not just put the sensors in the new tires/wheels? TPMS is a very good thing that has saved numerous people in here from blowouts. Makes no sense to circumvent it.

1. Because it forces you to keep 80PSI in the rear & makes it a PITA to rotate your tires.

2. It makes it a royal PITA if you want to run two sets of rims.

I've heard of some people placing all 4 in their spare tire and tricking the system that way...

Aren't they attached to the valve stems?

What do they do - throw the whole assembly (stem & all) into the spare & let it rattle around?

Zembonez · March 8, 2009

NOPE.

It's a federally mandated item. No workaround that I am aware of. Why not just put the sensors in the new tires/wheels? TPMS is a very good thing that has saved numerous people in here from blowouts. Makes no sense to circumvent it.

1. Because it forces you to keep 80PSI in the rear & makes it a PITA to rotate your tires.

2. It makes it a royal PITA if you want to run two sets of rims.

I've heard of some people placing all 4 in their spare tire and tricking the system that way...

Aren't they attached to the valve stems?

What do they do - throw the whole assembly (stem & all) into the spare & let it rattle around?

The sensors are separate from the stem so I guess you could put them in a spare as long as its pressure was high enough. A spare doesn't move all that much and these sensors are designed to live in a spinning tire going down the road over bumps and such. Another set of wheels isn't a huge issue since the sensors can be purchased pretty cheaply as a set on Ebay.

I'm not saying everybody should like the system. I can see where it might be a pain for some but I've had it almost 2 years now and it works great for me. In fact it saved me from taking off towing a boat with a punctured tire that was going down. It would have sucked to have a flat or a blowout on the highway pulling my boat...