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Can I drive car without TMPS sensors?
- Thread starter ashoknsingala
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Yes, you can absolutely drive the vehicle without the TPMS sensors, you will get a warning on the dash, but it will not affect driving or the function of the vehicle. Just remember to check your tires visually and occasionally with a tire pressure gauge.
Get some used OEM tpms sensors off ebay, if your 3 is pre-bluetooth, there are even cheaper options on Amazon.
yeah BLE sensors on ebay are ~$125(set of 4), old 433Mhz ones are like $30.
I got some winter wheels/tires online and opted to save myself 450.00 and go without the sensors like yourself.
It has no negative effect to run without them, like others said, but I will say the TPMS fault error on the screen is incredibly annoying. Even if you swipe it to the left to minimize it to an ICON, it will come back in a min or so. At this point, I'm not going to have the tire re-mounted just for that, but when I need new tires, I will 100% be getting some cheap TPMS if they can be had as cheap as morbidz said
edit: I would recommend adding them if you can get them cheap, if for nothing else than the convenience of knowing when you have a tire leak and to save yourself from the annoying fault message
It has no negative effect to run without them, like others said, but I will say the TPMS fault error on the screen is incredibly annoying. Even if you swipe it to the left to minimize it to an ICON, it will come back in a min or so. At this point, I'm not going to have the tire re-mounted just for that, but when I need new tires, I will 100% be getting some cheap TPMS if they can be had as cheap as morbidz said
edit: I would recommend adding them if you can get them cheap, if for nothing else than the convenience of knowing when you have a tire leak and to save yourself from the annoying fault message
That spoofer is designed for older 315MHz TPMS sensors.
Newer Tesla sensors are Bluetooth, and this spoofer would do nothing. It also might not even work on older cars as transmitting a signal from a fixed location on the car will not make sense to the receivers.
Plus, older sensors are about $50 for a set as the OP pointed out, so it's kind of pointless. The Tesla doesn't need a trip to the dealer to switch TPMS when you switch wheels like some older cars did, just swap the tires and drive a few miles.
Ironically, you can probably build a bluetooth TPMS spoofer for under $5 with an ESP32 if you know how to code and had the Tesla protocol, so it's cheaper to spoof with modern insane volume hardware, but it's a harder software task.