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Old 10-05-10, 09:02 AM
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The flat tire or low air sign comes up in my dash board i have check all my 4 tires pressure and they are perfect!!
one day the sign will go away and another day it would turn back on!!

How do i fix this or reset this??

its a 2010 IS250 if it makes a difference!
Old 10-05-10, 09:27 AM
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maybe the spare tire? because my family 4runner has that also and its always the spare tire.
Old 10-05-10, 09:34 AM
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What is perfect to you? It might be the slight temperature chances we're having.
Old 10-05-10, 09:43 AM
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weather change maybe???
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Originally Posted by new.era.13
maybe the spare tire? because my family 4runner has that also and its always the spare tire.
+1 gotta be the spare
Old 10-05-10, 10:19 AM
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Probably the weather, mine was on this morning too and when I went to lunch it wasn't on any more
Old 10-05-10, 10:31 AM
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switch to nitrogen it does help with the weather changes. my light would come on and off every day. finally i just switched to nitrogen and they havnt come on since.
Old 10-05-10, 10:49 AM
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^^^ +1 on nitrogen. plus it stays in the tire longer than regular air so u dont have to refill as often
Old 10-05-10, 11:28 AM
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Thank You guys!! ^
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I've had this happen with temperature drops too, but if you checked the PSI in all 4 tires that's pretty much ruled out.

Originally Posted by new.era.13
maybe the spare tire? because my family 4runner has that also and its always the spare tire.
Originally Posted by mikemoto81
+1 gotta be the spare
There's a TPMS sensor in the spare tire?
Old 10-05-10, 02:04 PM
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lol, I didn't know the spare had a TPMS neither... Is that really true?
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ˆˆˆfrom what i heard there are no TPMS in our spares.
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There's no sensor in the spare, I don't carry my spare in my car and there's no sensor warnings...btw if the op still has a problem with the warning light after filling then up, then it's a bad sensor
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Dude you just have to go the dealer & get the sensor reset. They get tweaked & have to be reset. Takes like 3 min at the dealer. It happened to mine twice. The have this scanner like tool they don't even have to take the tire off they just synch to your sensor in the tire & reset it. Real quick.
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Originally Posted by 516IS
lol, I didn't know the spare had a TPMS neither... Is that really true?
Originally Posted by NoAlias
ˆˆˆfrom what i heard there are no TPMS in our spares.
Originally Posted by vinconist
There's no sensor in the spare, I don't carry my spare in my car and there's no sensor warnings...btw if the op still has a problem with the warning light after filling then up, then it's a bad sensor
Okay, good to know I'm not crazy.


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