Tire pressure sensors, how long did yours last and did you use OEM?

I'm posting this here because the general life expectancy of the senors in the tires means the ones in the early 2nd gens should be dying. My TPMS light is flashing on my 07 so I'm assuming one has died. Without a scanner to check which one has failed and since they are all the same age I'll do them all.

I have seen lots of aftermarket ones (I assume cheap Chinese clones), has anyone tried that route?

 

Look online for Denso replacements. they are the OEM and can be had for 40 a sensor.
as for life? ive got 2 cars in the family with TPMS, both avalons. both are on the original sensors after 15 years.

 

Tossed mine in the trash two years ago.

 

I bought a cheap set on Amazon that’s the cheap knockoff for my 2nd set of wheels/tires for $50 for the set. They didn’t have the RF id printed on them but Discount Tire was able to program them with zero issues. I also have TechStream and now that I know RF ids for both sets, I can easily reprogram the TPMS sensor IDs myself if needed.

 

I purchased 4 from Amazon that was listed as a Toyota OEM and they are made by TRW. I paid about $120 for the 4 of them. They have been on for 1 1/2 years and no problems.

 

$18 Yosoo Car TPMS Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensor for Toyota Sienna Sequoia Tundra 2006-2017 42607-0C070

Yosoo Car TPMS Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensor for Toyota Sienna Sequoia Tundra 2006-2017 42607-0C070

Those are the ones I bought. Mine were also TRW brand, but looks like a lot cheaper than what poster above me paid.

 

How long have you been using them?

 

My wife’s 08 scion TPMS shit the bed 3 years ago. We just got used to the light being on. Time to change the tires came up before I had the chance to buy/search for new ones at a decent price. So it’ll probably stay that way until next time.

 

couple of months. I know, not long enough to say how long they will last. I did check them with techstream and the psi reading was accurate. But for $100 parts and labor, I can't complain

 

I would like to turn light off period delete !!!!replaced sensors all 4 but hooking up to boat trailer turns TPMS light on they suck

 

I thought I would post an update. I ordered a set of 4 TRW sensors that matched the originals. I got them off ebay. It was $30 something for one and $50 something for a set of four. I could have played around with lowering the air pressures and watching the data on TechStream to see which one was bad but I figured if one was not sending a signal then all wouldn't be far behind.

Changing them was pretty easy. Simply broke the bead on the outside and wedged a socket between the rim and tire bead to give me enough room to remove the old one and get the new one in. On the first wheel I found that one had died in the past and was replaced with an aftermarket one that could be programed with the code from the one it replaced. The other 3 were original. I'll keep the programmable one (not that I have a way to program it) and trash the other 3.

It's pretty easy to update the sensor ID's with TechStream. It asks you for each ID and you have 5 minutes to enter each one. I had typed them into Word first so it was just copy and paste. I checked each time I installed one into a tire just to make sure they were working. Occasionally one wouldn't show any pressure but when everything was done and I had torqued down the wheels so I could take it for a ride they all worked and the TPMS light went out.

While doing it I wondered if you could just put in the same ID 4 times. TechStream tells you which ID isn't working (it shows 0 PSI). It seams like if the computer doesn't care you could just do that vs replacing them. As long as one worked you should be ok. Maybe other states are different but here they need to work to pass inspection. The inspection places connect up to the computer and if there's any fault codes they need to be fixed before they will pass it. Plus there's a statewide database so when it reads a code it's automatically entered into the system.