I swapped my stock 18's for the sport 19's and after 50 miles my TPMS light came on.How can I get this reset?Tool,Dealer,Self reset?

Or can I go to the dealer and say my Tpms light comes on at random and they will look at it and just reset it without charging me just to get it out of the way quickly?Kinda make it look light it was acting up?

 

That is exactly what I told you to do.

My car came with stock 18s. When I bought and installed my 2010 19' Maxima sports rims, TPMS light came on. I went to 2 dealerships, but they told me they would charge me I think $49.99 to reset it. I went to the next dealership and told them that my TPMS light just came on and I don't know why. They didn't even question me if those rims were not my original wheels. They just saw they were Nissan rims and did it for me for free. Been perfect since then.

Do that. Besides, they can't even question you on that since those rims come on the 7thgens, don't matter if you have sports package or not. It can be that you had upgraded to sports wheels at time of purchase, even though you bought nav package.

Let me know how it goes. Good luck.

 

Yea just go to the dealer and say they've been acting up n they dnt question nething n if they do just tell them u bought them when u bought the car and u dnt got reciept or nething

 

A quick follow up question ... If I buy custom wheels and have the OEM TPMS sensors transferred to the new wheels and installed in their original positions, will I have problems with the TPMS. Or will they just continue to work as before?

Live long, and prosper
Jerry L. Gubka

 

If some how u can put it in the exact same place then it will stay programed but most likely u gona have to reprogram them

 

I have custom rims on mine and didn't have to do anything.

 

How about totally disabling the TPMS feature so there is no light on the dash?Some people I am sure wont use the TPMS with some of the aftermarket wheels.

And on a another note: How come I dont here a beep from the TPMS ever?And I also never hear the seatbelt chime when its not on like every other car?

 

I looked into that awhile ago. It's a law that all cars built after a certain year have to have them.

 

Yep; required on all vehicles as of 2007.

I am still disappointed with the antiquated TPMS system on the 7th gen. There have been systems out there for years that display the psi of each of the four tires.

Even if the readings were not completely accurate, those systems with psi readouts enabled the observant driver to spot a slow leak before the tire dropped all the way to 28 psi and triggered this system we have on the 7th gen.

I also feel having a sensor on the temporary spare is important. Most drivers don't check the spare when they check their tires. I have a large wall-to-wall trunk cargo system which must be unloaded and removed before I can check my spare, so it gets checked once a year at most.

If we don't get a more advanced TPMS system on the half-gen 2012, then we certainly will get it on the 8th gen 2014.

 

TPMS is very important and very handy.

Replace stock valve caps to the illuminated caps. When air pressure drops, your indicator lights up, step outside and find which cap is lit.

 

I think it was also related to the Firestone lawsuits.

 

I haven't seen those. I have these tiny little thingies that screw onto the top of the valve stem and show green unless the psi drops below the rated pressure, in which case they show red. I bought the ones rated for 34 psi, since I carry a psi varying from 35 to 37, depending on the situation.

 

Are you running the original OEM TPMS sensors from a previous set of wheels?

And, does tire rotation have any affect on the TPMS (I haven't owned the car long enough yet to need a tire rotation)? Is there any advantage to buying new sensors for the new wheels and having them programmed ($188 at Tire Rack)? Can a tire dealer, like the local Les Schwab, program these sensors or is it a dealer only operation?

I'm interested and asking all these questions because it's 175 miiles to the nearest dealer in Reno, NV. I don't mind the cost of having it done, just don't want to drive 350 miles and spend 4-6 hours getting something simple accomplished. And, I'm exploring options before plunking down $2500 for new tires/wheels.

I'm sure there must be others trying to learn the intricacies of TPMS. Thanks for your input.

Live long, and prosper
Jerry L. Gubka

 

Original sensors that came with the stock wheels. I think the only time they need to be reset is if you put on sensors that didn't come with the car. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Thank you ...

Live long, and prosper
Jerry L. Gubka

 

For detecting the occasional slow leak, yes. Otherwise, not really.

Translation - don't use TPMS as an excuse for not checking your tire pressures manually.

In the larger scheme of things, don't fall into the trap of expecting that all of these little tasks should be done for you.


Norm

 

You're not considering all scenarios...checking your tires every day won't spot a leak from a serious puncture you just received on the road. If you have an immediate leak while you're on the highway, you'll be warned before teh pressure drops low enough to blow out the sidewalls and you end up on a rim. Don't disregard what you don't understand.

 

By the same token, don't expect a leak that happens that quick to show up on TPMS before you realize that a tire is going down from your own observations. Or that you'll see its dashboard warning before realizing that something is amiss. Don't be so enamored of technological "solutions" that you fail to see that they too have a few warts.

If this site will let me attach a picture or two, I can show you more about a rapidly deflating tire, and describe in considerable detail about its very specific installation and how the non-TPMS car behaved. Some place, I think I still have the shard of metal that caused it all.


You'll note that I stopped short of suggesting that the OP simply go TPMS-less, which is actually legal to do. It's disabling its dash warning lamp that's not.

My problem with this (and most other) driver "assistances" is that they tend to make the average driver less observant of what's going on around him in the physical sense and less aware of it. This "assistance" is not a "replacement for", nor is it expected to cover you for all possible tire deflation scenarios. I am not nearly convinced that the average driver understands TPMS in that light.


Norm

 

I had 17 inch wheels on my Versa,, with TPMS I just left the light on .Dident have the TPMS installed on those rims since they were summer wheels....No issues .... Unless you really like those POS monitors its not a big deal....

 

I bet the average driver doesn't know what this symbol means.

 

Yeah, my wifes 09 Quest displays the pressure on each wheel. TPMS in general is somewhat of an annoyance though. We were on a road trip. Air temps were in the mid 80's and the TPMS light came on. I checked the pressures on the gauge cluster and all were above 32psi. I pulled over to check the tires visually. From the time I opened the door and to the time I got back in, the TPMS light turned off and hasn't come back on...

TPMS is another PERFECT example of the dumbing down of our population and more importantly a PERFECT example of our government trying to legislate common sense which ABSOLUTELY can't be done!

 

The only time TPMS is annoying is after a hot day and a cold night hits,when you go out to go to work the TPMS triggers since the cool temps shrunk the TP.It can be annoying around this time of year on the east coast.