Hello, 

My new wheels came with TPMS sensors already in them and I want to program them with the car. Is this something I can do myself and how would I go about it. Thanks

49 minutes ago, Luke14 said:

Hello, 

My new wheels came with TPMS sensors already in them and I want to program them with the car. Is this something I can do myself and how would I go about it. Thanks

There should be a TPMS reset procedure listed in your owners manual, or, pop them down to you local tire fitter who should be able to do it...

6 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

There should be a TPMS reset procedure listed in your owners manual, or, pop them down to you local tire fitter who should be able to do it...

My local tyre fitter only suggested fitting 4 new sensors and that’s not cheap and thought there must be a way of connecting the new sensors to my car but don’t know how to get the car to learn the new sensors

 

11 minutes ago, Luke14 said:

My local tyre fitter only suggested fitting 4 new sensors and that’s not cheap and thought there must be a way of connecting the new sensors to my car but don’t know how to get the car to learn the new sensors

 

Are the sensors in your new wheels, genuine Ford OE sensors, or just some random TPMS that the seller told you they had fitted?

1 hour ago, StephenFord said:

Are the sensors in your new wheels, genuine Ford OE sensors, or just some random TPMS that the seller told you they had fitted?

I really don’t know they just said that the sensors were already fitted 

8 minutes ago, Luke14 said:

I really don’t know they just said that the sensors were already fitted 

Therein lies the issue. You can't just pop into a jeweler and ask for a watch battery. They need to open it up, see what battery is in it, test it to check if the battery is indeed dead, or a faulty watch. Your 'sensors' could be anything, working on frequencies that suited the car they came off from, but not yours, or they could need their internal batteries needing replacing.

Try and ask the seller what you have, if you find out nothing, I would get them at least examined to see what you have, or follow the guys suggestion in the first place and get some sensors that match your car...

16 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Therein lies the issue. You can't just pop into a jeweler and ask for a watch battery. They need to open it up, see what battery is in it, test it to check if the battery is indeed dead, or a faulty watch. Your 'sensors' could be anything, working on frequencies that suited the car they came off from, but not yours, or they could need their internal batteries needing replacing.

Try and ask the seller what you have, if you find out nothing, I would get them at least examined to see what you have, or follow the guys suggestion in the first place and get some sensors that match your car...

I have messaged the seller as suggested and I will see what they say. The other option is take the old sensors off my other wheels and move them onto the new wheels but I can’t remember which wheel came off which exact side 

26 minutes ago, Luke14 said:

... but I can’t remember which wheel came off which exact side 

Easiest way is just to let the air out of one tire, the one that registers 'zero' on your car will be correctly indicated on your TPMS system. Work your way round the next two, and the remaining one will be the last man standing. Of course, make sure you have access to a tire compressor so you can blow the tires back up.

1 hour ago, StephenFord said:

Easiest way is just to let the air out of one tire, the one that registers 'zero' on your car will be correctly indicated on your TPMS system. Work your way round the next two, and the remaining one will be the last man standing. Of course, make sure you have access to a tire compressor so you can blow the tires back up.

That would have been helpful but my car doesn’t have the ability for it to display different tyre pressures on the display screen 

So I got a reply back from the seller and he is pretty sure they are genuine Ford sensors 

1 minute ago, Luke14 said:

So I got a reply back from the seller and he is pretty sure they are genuine Ford sensors 

In that case, I refer you back to my very first post LOL

When you said new wheels, do you mean wheel and tyre combo with sensors already fitted. Have you put the wheels on and driven with them yet? New sensors come "asleep". To wake them . Pump tyres up ) already done I assume ) . Fit to car and drive . They should wake and sync up as you drive. Car doesn't need to know where each wheel is located if you can't read pressures on dash. 

3 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

In that case, I refer you back to my very first post LOL

I’m the owners manual I could only see about resetting once changing tyres or reinflating after tyre pressure is too low. Nothing about resetting or programming after new sensors 

1 minute ago, iantt said:

When you said new wheels, do you mean wheel and tyre combo with sensors already fitted. Have you put the wheels on and driven with them yet? New sensors come "asleep". To wake them . Pump tyres up ) already done I assume ) . Fit to car and drive . They should wake and sync up as you drive. Car doesn't need to know where each wheel is located if you can't read pressures on dash. 

Yes wheel and tyre with sensors fitted. They were removed off another fiesta so probably not brand new sensors I just need to code these sensors so my car recognises them 

Ok. Put them on the car and drive then. Either it's going to work or not. 

2 minutes ago, iantt said:

Either it's going to work or not.

Well that's not much of a choice 🤣🤣

1 minute ago, unofix said:

Well that's not much of a choice 🤣🤣

Well, pretty much covers 95% of all advice given on this forum 😅

3 minutes ago, unofix said:

Well that's not much of a choice 🤣🤣

That's the choice I'm offering without actually turning up and doing it my self with my expensive Tpms learning tool. (£6 eBay special) 

It's not the £6 tool I'd be worried about if you turned up. It would be the £140 an hour labor that I'd be fretting about 😉

48 minutes ago, unofix said:

It's not the £6 tool I'd be worried about if you turned up. It would be the £140 an hour labor that I'd be fretting about 😉

Yeah, minimum charge is an hour. 

5 hours ago, iantt said:

Ok. Put them on the car and drive then. Either it's going to work or not. 

I’ve been driving round with them for a good couple weeks and it hasn’t reset itself. I did buy one of the relearn tool and going to try that when it arrives 

8 hours ago, Luke14 said:

I’ve been driving round with them for a good couple weeks and it hasn’t reset itself. I did buy one of the relearn tool and going to try that when it arrives 

Geeze! A suggested 1st post...

I bought a set of used alloys where the seller insisted they had genuine Ford TPMS sensors fitted to them. I have been driving around with them on for a few weeks now but they still won't register on my cars TPMS system - any suggestions? 🙄

My next question is what vehicle did the wheels come off? 

Also if ford wheels they may have wrong ford sensors if they came from wrong ford or age of ford. Ford use primarily. 2 sensors that look pretty identical. 

30 minutes ago, iantt said:

Also if ford wheels they may have wrong ford sensors if they came from wrong ford or age of ford. Ford use primarily. 2 sensors that look pretty identical. 

It came off another Fiesta mk7.5 but there’s was 2016 and mines 2014. 
TPMS relearn tool came today so gonna have a go tomorrow when got more time