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TPMS zip tie trick
#1
TPMS zip tie trick
I have heard of people using zip ties around the TPMS sensors to keep them from going off while they are out of the wheel. I wanted to do this until I can get them installed in my wheels
#2
To keep them from going off while they are out of the wheel? What do you mean? From detaching from the wheel? They are pretty much fastened to the wheel already so not sure what a zip tie will do. Or maybe I'm just not understanding the question?
#3
No I had them in my last wheels and had them removed so I can have them put in my new wheels, however the new ones are coming to me already mounted I heard that there is a way to zip tie the sensors by themselves to keep them registering pressure. I was just hoping someone had some insight
#4
first of all it's not zip tie, it would be some metal band to tie the tpms to the wheels. second, if you do that, it will still have to be on the INSIDE of the barrel..... there is no way you can mount this anywhere outside of the wheel and get it to work... i mean, there is no way for it to sense the pressure inside of the wheel
#5
first of all it's not zip tie, it would be some metal band to tie the tpms to the wheels. second, if you do that, it will still have to be on the INSIDE of the barrel..... there is no way you can mount this anywhere outside of the wheel and get it to work... i mean, there is no way for it to sense the pressure inside of the wheel
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lilwatty19 (11-19-23)
#6
Just drive with the light on and check your tires. It's better not to mess with them and try to band-aid the problem. Plus sometimes those lil shiiis are sensitive and you can end up breaking them.
Your new wheels will be here soon enough... wait for it.
Your new wheels will be here soon enough... wait for it.
#7
Im not asking how to attach the sensor to the wheel. I thought I had read somewhere in the forum that someone had "zip tied" their sensors and threw them in the trunk so they wouldnt go off. I could be wrong no big deal I ll just have my wheels broke down and sensors put in.
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#8
I have no idea what mechanism the sensors use to actually detect air pressure but I doubt there is anything you can do with a ziptie to fool it into detecting pressure.
If I had to imagine the inner workings of the things, I picture a chamber full of air or liquid with a membrane that flexes and changes the capacitance of the chamber which has a current. Since this would all probably be a very small device on the interior of the sensor, you could probably do absolutely nothing to the exterior to control it apart from submitting the whole sensor to pressure.
If I had to imagine the inner workings of the things, I picture a chamber full of air or liquid with a membrane that flexes and changes the capacitance of the chamber which has a current. Since this would all probably be a very small device on the interior of the sensor, you could probably do absolutely nothing to the exterior to control it apart from submitting the whole sensor to pressure.
#10
The only thing I've heard is where someone would leave the sensors in their old wheels/tires and leave that set of wheels in the garage. That way each day when you come home from work the light will reset itself as it senses the tires sitting in your gargage. If I'm not mistaken it takes a little bit of time for the light to come on, so in essence you could drive all day without the light ever bothering you and then it'll reset the "timer", so to speak, when you get home.
#11
you can do the pipe bomb type thing where you put all 4 into a pressurized canister.
just a heads up, without tpms' the warning light will not come on unless you drive over 50 miles. once it comes on, it will take several cycles of trips under 50 miles for the warning light to clear. i do not have tpms' in my wheels and i have no lights since i never drive my car over 50 miles one way on any type. if i do (like when i go to the beach) i will just pull off the road just before 50 miles, turn the car off then back on and im good for 50 more miles. its a pita but id rather do that then have a warning light on.
just a heads up, without tpms' the warning light will not come on unless you drive over 50 miles. once it comes on, it will take several cycles of trips under 50 miles for the warning light to clear. i do not have tpms' in my wheels and i have no lights since i never drive my car over 50 miles one way on any type. if i do (like when i go to the beach) i will just pull off the road just before 50 miles, turn the car off then back on and im good for 50 more miles. its a pita but id rather do that then have a warning light on.
#13
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...-solution.html
i've done the pipe bomb trick with white pvc.
#14
what i've seen is zip tie and two washers pressed against each other.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...-solution.html
i've done the pipe bomb trick with white pvc.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...-solution.html
i've done the pipe bomb trick with white pvc.
#15