Can someone please tell me how to disable the TPMS on my truck so I dont have to look at this light anymore. I don't have the sensors and I dont want them. I am a big boy and I know how to check my tire pressure. PM me if you dont want to post it public.

There IS a way to do it, I just don't know how.

 

I would just install them. TPMS can give you an early hint of a slow leak the second it drops below the threshold. I think it's a cool feature. It can tell you what you need to know before the slow leak worsens.

If not, I'm going to guess that it is hard wired into the dash display looking for that signal... you'll have to jerry rig something up to keep sending that signal. Do you not have the wheel sensors anymore?

 

how do you figure there is a way to do it? ive taken courses on tpms and from what i can see there is no way to disable it, the only way that light is gonna go off is if you can pull the bulb or put the sensors back on the truck

 

If you can build the system you, can change the system. No one wants us to know how to do it but, there has to be a way to. It not fort knox, its just a tire pressure monitoring system. I'm sure it isn't as simple as pulling a fuse or something, but there has to be a way. I'd bet there is a way to disable it through the OBD port.

 

I have them in my stock wheels but I don't want to put them in. I drove for 15 years without them, I will be fine.

 

i understand, i hate them and work with/on them everyday, but its currently law to have them in on trucks that are equipped with them, so i dont see a way around it without removing a bulb

 

In 40 years of driving I have had 2 high speed blowouts. I never want to have another. Just recently, that system saved me from a blowout in my work vehicle. The light did not come on driving around town, it came on while at speed on the interstate, allowing me to slow down, and check the tire. I will not allow any member of my family to operate a vehicle with that system disabled. NEVER.

A few years back the number of rollovers in Arizona because of tire failure was over 25%. The number is way down and falling as newer cars are put into service. Now if we can just stop drivers from falling asleep at the wheel!

If you took the sensors off just because you bought a set of wheels without them, I would think about putting the stock ones back on.

The life you save may not be yours.

 

also stop drivers from texting and driving would be really nice

 

> A few years back the number of rollovers in Arizona because of tire failure was
> over 25%. The number is way down and falling as newer cars are put into service.

Too many variables to say TPMS had any direct reduction to rollovers. There are other safety devices that have also been put into place during the same time frame (traction control, yaw detection/correction).

 

I appreciate the feedback and all the safety concerns but I really just want to know how to shut it off.

 

you cant, only way is to put the sensors back in

 

Ok you have added your input, now I would like some input from someone who doesn't think so terminal. It's just a computer.

 

its like saying "is there a way i can disable the airbags without the light being on?"

 

yeah you turn the key in the switch in vehicles equipped with a shutoff for them.

beyond that tho to the op i do not feel there is a way to disable the tpms light.

 

Of course there is a way you can disable the airbags and not have a light on.