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👀 I never thought of it that way. And the story of how it came to be stolen makes that more worrying. I was walking my dogs out by the River and on the way home I saw two guys hunting (within the city limits) leaning out the window of their car. I yelled at them and took a picture of the vehicle. The next day my tire was flat with a needle nose pliers sticking out of it. Got that patched and tossed the spare in the bed instead of under the truck. A week later the spare was gone.
That does sound rather worrying. The good news is that those sensors only have a range of about 35ft tops, so it's more likely that one of your neighbors stole your wheel, put a new tire on it, and are now using it on their car.
Any similarly-wheeled vehicles nearby?
No, but the light also does not comer on when i park down at the river for morning walk (typically the only vehicle in sight), or when I am leaving work. I figured the stars aligned and the craigslist spare finally synced with my TPMS.
As far as I know, that doesn't happen. You typically have to program the TPMS monitoring system to search for certain transmitters.
Now, I'm just a somewhat skilled shadetree mechanic; I'm not claiming to be the source of all knowledge or anything, so I could be wrong.
If there aren't any other vehicles around and you haven't programmed the sensor, I'm gonna guess the light just stopped working.
I was thinking that too. It does come on during the check when I first start the truck. I was going to let air out of one tire today and see if that trips the sensor. I may also leave my spare at home when I go to work today and see what happens.
Oh, that's interesting. I didn't realize it was still coming on during the initial startup. Definitely do those tests and let me know what happens.
Out of curiosity, what make and model is your truck? I haven't dabbled much with any vehicles newer than, like, 2017, so I suppose it's possible that they've changed the way the TPMS works.
My last vehicle was a 2010 Ford- TPMS worked fine; took the wheels off while the car was on jack stands in my driveway, and took them to my neighbor's shop (~1/4 mile away) to mount and balance new tires. My son started the car to mess with the stereo while I was gone, and the TPMS light came on. Even after I replaced the wheels, with the same transmitters, it refused to acknowledge them. The light stayed on until I junked the vehicle last year.
2015 Toyota Tacoma
I need new tires soon, they have enough tread for street use, but I live in New Mexico where we have more dirt roads than paved roads and we have had an exceptionally wet September and October, so I need to get new ATs. Hopefully the tire shop can take care of the TPMS when I get them.
Hell yeah. Extra points for Toyota; they're the shit. I drive Fords because they're available to me, but if I had my druthers, I'd rather drive a Toyota. Best vehicle I've ever owned was an 05 4Runner. Miss that thing. It would go everywhere.
My ex and I owned a '79 Corolla SR5 Sport Coupe, we bought it from the original owner in 98. It had 33k miles or so on it. I loved that car. I had paid for it, but her mom arranged the purchase etc so when we split the title was in her name and I lost the car. She sold it for $100 to spite me.
Man, people can suck sometimes.
Unrelated to vehicles, - my grandfather sold all of my grandmother's land when they got married to spite her family. So, yeah. People can suck.
I took the spare out of the bed for two day's and nothing changed with the light. But yesterday while driving to the next town up for a vet appointment, about 30 miles into the drive the TPMS light flashed for 1 minute then stayed on like it should when a sensor is missing, it appears to be working fine again.
Fascinating. Thanks for the update