Disabling TPMS

[cwsartain]

Is it possible to disable the TPMS? I am getting some aftermarket wheels and tires that are already balanced and I'd rather not have to fool with taking the sensors out of my factory wheels and installed on the new ones. I'd rather disable the system if thats even possible.

I have a 2015 Yukon XL

 

[dbbd1]

What I have heard of, from other forums, is to put all of your sensors in a capped pvc tube (with an air valve tapped into one end) and pressurize it. Then leave it under your seat in the vehicle.


It's federally mandated so you probably cannot disable easily.

 

[Rocket Man]

I was looking at the same thing last month since my billet wheels on my 08 CC don't have locations for sensors. All I found pointed to it being impossible to disable it but you can fake it either with the PVC tube method or a company that makes electronic "spoofers". You can search online for the spoofers; I was in the process of finding one for my truck when I somehow disabled my system when I was pulling fuses one by one, checking them, and reinstalling them. It hasn't come back on even though I've disconnected the battery several times. So even though it's supposedly impossible, I did it but I don't know how.

 

[THE YETI]

It’s actually a great safety feature. Why wouldn’t you want to spend the $10/tire to pop them out and put into your aftermarket ones?

A lot cheaper than trying to bypass them which clearly isn’t anything worth attempting.

 

[05alive]

Yeah, not sure I'd want to roll around with a pvc tube with a bunch of sensors in it clanking around under the seat or in a glove box.

It's not hard for any tire shop to do, and if it's balanced with beads, no need to rebalance.

Even then, wheel balancing is cheap.

Total price will be pretty low, all they're doing is popping the bead, throwing the sensor in, inflating it (see if they have nitrogen) and spinning it on the machine. Maybe adding a small weight.

 

[swathdiver]

With the Tech2 we can tell the computer what load range the tires are and the air pressure they should be at so the computer will give us an alert if they lose 10 psi. I set mine for 50 psi so the light will come on at 40 psi. I do not know what the computer does with the load range information, nobody seems to know.

 

[Frank07]

Haven’t tried my 07 yet but I had an 05 Denali, and had aftermarket wheels on it and we swapped out the passenger door lock/window switch setup and the light went away.
We found this out on my brothers 04 Tahoe when we switched out the pass lock assembly for bad switches and the tpms light came on (he didn’t have that option) so we swapped it out again. Then no more lite

 

[Rocket Man]

Haven’t tried my 07 yet but I had an 05 Denali, and had aftermarket wheels on it and we swapped out the passenger door lock/window switch setup and the light went away.
We found this out on my brothers 04 Tahoe when we switched out the pass lock assembly for bad switches and the tpms light came on (he didn’t have that option) so we swapped it out again. Then no more lite

Interesting and I read something about the power fold mirrors needing a different switch module and a BCM flash to enable it. I did replace my driver switch module with an afternarket one so maybe that disabled my TPMS.

 

[dbbd1]

Yeah, not sure I'd want to roll around with a pvc tube with a bunch of sensors in it clanking around under the seat or in a glove box.

Added- I guess that I assumed that most people would know to stuff a rag in there too, to prevent the wee bit of noise that it would make.

 

[4OFFSHR]

My Antera wheels have the internal valve stem under the center cap with an air channel through the spokes and are not TPM compatible, but when I bought my truck I purchased new factory TPM sensors at the dealer by providing my Vin, all 4 cost about $300 and I just had them banded to the barrel of my wheels, but I needed to have them programed at each corner once they were installed, but they function properly. It is worth just swapping them over and marking them from each corner they were removed.