- Hi Scotty! Thanks for all of your educational videos you post several times every day. I’ve learned a lot just by watching your videos.
I have a problem with tire pressure sensor/s 2008 Toyota Prius. At my local Toyota dealership they asked $1,250 (before taxes) to replace all four sensors with oem ones and program them (programming the sensors is charged $250 no matter if they change one or all four e.g. every time you visit them and ask for their service ).
I’d like to save some money and order the sensors from Toyota’s online part store and buy Autel MaxiTPMS TS508 to program the sensors myself. Since you have a MaxiTPMS device, can you confirm that the device can program genuine Toyota gen 2 Prius sensors?
Thanks in advance
P.S.: My car is well maintained over the years and has all the parts oem . 114,000 miles and doing my first transmission fluid tomorrow.
Most shops can replace these much cheaper. I had all four replaced on my son's 2010 Xterra for about $450 by an independent Japanese shop. Don't know where you are located, but Discount Tire here is even less.
No Discount Tires near me (Columbia MO). There are mostly dealerships in this town and I only have one local mechanic I can somewhat trust.
@s1c-em please copy + paste your response as ‘Your Answer’ below, thanks.
Put a small piece of black tape over your dash light, buy a $4 tire pressure gauge and forget about it. Save yourself a great deal of money.
Nah, it’s either replacement or I’ll live with the light on.
Do I also have to do tire alignment, besides the tire balance?
No, you don’t need an alignment. Unless you’ve been messing with the suspension parts, the car is pulling to one side, or you’re facing uneven tyre wear, or you’ve never had the vehicle aligned in years, you shouldn’t need it.
- Well it's worked for me in those cars the only thing is how you going to get the sensors in the wheels you got to take the tires off to do that. You need a tire machine and then a rebalancing tire machine unless you're just going to take your tires to a tire shop and have them take the old stems out and put the new ones in one at a time then you could reprogram the rest yourself
Do I also have to do tire alignment, besides the tire balance?