TPMS programming 2011 - 2015

[expoman55]

Good evening all. I have a 15 sport and purchased blizzaks for my factory rims for winter and have ordered new rims for summer now that spring is here. Plan to buy new TPMS sensors and the programming tool to reprogram them when I flip them around 2xs a year.

Can anyone tell me how to do the reprogramming? Or where to find the programming details?

 

[peterk9]

There have been some posts stating that the new TPMS frequencies will be picked up automatically. In my case the dealer does it as part of the Winter/OEM wheel changeover since they also store them for me.
Why not just put them on, drive a bit first and then see if you need to buy the tool. The worst that can happen is that the warning light stays on during that 'test' period.

Peter

 

[expoman55]

Good Advice Peter... Ill give that a go..

 

[vp6799]

My 14 picked up the new sensors automatically on the new wheels. No tools or programming required.

Picked up the original sensors when I put the stock wheels with snow tires back on for the winter and picked up the sensors on the summer wheels again the other day.

 

[bigdude2468]

2014 Explorer XLT, bought tires last winter from Costco, Michelin Defenders, they seem great. Took the vehicle back to Costco on Thursday for the free rotation. After doing the rotation the technician plugged in a test instrument to load the new wheel location of each tire. Why is this necessary as an under inflated tire gives a warning but not which tire is low, just that you have a low tire? I always rotated the tires myself up to this point as I was not going to pay for it. I never had an issue whihc the PCM being confused etc. What am I missing?

 

[peterk9]

There is no need to program the wheel location in the 2011 - 2015 models. All that is required is to reset the TPMS module to recognize the newly mounted sensors. According to some posts here, just driving the Explorer will do that.Only the 2016/17 models display which tire is low.
Your thread has been merged with this one.

Peter

 

[bigdude2468]

That is what I thought, will tell them the next time not to bother / waste their time.