Can I swap my TPMS from my 18's to my 19's without resetting, or do I have to reset?
 

Just got some stock 19's and put them on my car, obviously the TPMS warning lightly has come on and needs to be reset. Can I swap the TPMS from the 18's on here without resetting to get the light to go off? Or do I have to reset it using the process found here (which seems crazy) : http://forums.maxima.org/7th-generat...pms-reset.html

You can swap without resetting.

Is there a thread on how to do that? Or do you know how? Never messed with TPMS before.

It's connected to your valve stem and just unscrews. You will have to break the seal on each tire, unscrew the current stem, put your old ones with the sensors on, and then air your tires back up.

What do you mean by break the seal? Sorry if I sound ignorant here. Sounds like I don't have to take the tire off, but have to let a lot of air out of the tire so I should obviously jack the car up and do 1 at a time. Good time for me to bust out my borderline-never-used air compressor in the basement to fill em back up.

And be aware that, after you finish moving the TPMS stuff to your new rims, the light may not go off immediately. Most here who have had their psi drop far enough to trigger the TPMS light had to drive several miles after filling up their tires before the light went off.

Yeah you don't have to completely remove the tire from the rim. Just break the seal where your valve stem is, swap, and air that sucker back up. You are probably going to need something pretty beefy to get some leverage on the tire with to be able to pull it back far enough to unscrew the nuts holding the valve stem in place.

Trust me, you need a tire shop with the proper equipment to do this. The tire beads on the short sidewall tires are very difficult to break down & re-seat. The bead must be pushed down quite a distance in order to remove the sensors. All you need is to damage a couple of places on the wheels to wish you had let a professional do this correctly for you. Pay the man and get on with it.:)

Unless you just have the time on your hands, yes most likely it'd be best to go to a tire shop. It is possible without the equipment just takes a while. Luckily my roommate works at an autoshop so it was a quick 2 minute swap for me.

He might even get lucky and find a place that will just break it for him for free. It's not like the actual swap or airing a tire up is rocket science.

Hmm, okay I think I'll run this over to my mechanic and see what he'd charge me to swap these off. From what I gather it's ~60-70 to pay Nissan to reset the TPMS sensor isn't it? Then again the light isn't THAT annoying...lol...

Speaking of which how do others deal with this when they swap off/on rims for the summer/winter? You keep moving your TPMS, you reset it, or do you just ignore the light?

Well I just got 20's staggered and I am bout to buy new tpms sensor for the rims as well so I wont need to keep changing sensors

Wait, so once they're set for your car they're good forever? I thought you had to reset them every time you changed wheels. I have a set of TPMS on my 18's and 19's so if I can get the new set "reset" by Nissan for my car and then never worry about it again I'd MUCH rather do that. Is that how these work or am I completely misinterpreting?

Yes, that one set of four TPS sensors is, but not the next set. Each one has to be individually recognized by the car. It will only (see) 4 at a time. It's not like keyless remotes where you can have up to 4 for one car.

Ahh okay thank you, this answers my question. So I guess I have to pick a set of rims I have the light on for or deal with swapping the sensors/reprogramming them 2 times a year... I can always put a piece of black duct tape over the sensor light.

I would love to know the answer to this as well. I am considering buying stock 19s to replace the 18s that are on my 2011 Max & want to know if the TPMS sensors on my current tires can be used with the 19s...if so, is this something a tire shop can do easily?

Yes, and Yes

You can break the bead and swap the sensors. You are looking at $40+ in labor.

My local shop, discount tire, will reset the tpms light for free when I swap wheels, as I bought both sets of tires there, and have sensors in both sets.

Why not just buy a second set of sensors?

Sorry, I have a related question and did not want to start a new thread on this... For those who were using winter tires on your 7th Gens, did you need to have your TPMS relearned when you were putting your all-year OEM tires/rims back in March/April? I realize that the TMPS light was on during the winter (unless a separate sensors set was purchased for the winter tires), so did the light disappear automatically once you put your OEM tires back on?
Thanks a lot.

No need to relearn. Light went out within a few starts.

Thank you very much for the confirmation gizzsdad!

I have access to a tire machine and still broke 2 sensors trying to swap them,,,,,,where is the best deal on SV sensors???

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