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Louie_Hampton

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I've got an '05 Tundra with the tire monitoring system. It flashes a light on the dash if tire pressure drops to around 22psi. If you have a newish Toyota have a care when its time for tire work!!

The sensors are in the wheel and are easily broken. A replacement is $108.00 plus tax. Each sensor has a unique code that is transmitted and read by the vehicle ECU. When a sensor is replaced, the code from the old sensor has to be erased from the ECU memory, and the new code entered, then the system reinitialed. Of course the dealer seems to be the only ones with the fancy scan tool to do this. Cost to change the codes in the ECU, $90.00! A flat tire can get expensive fast!

I love my truck, but what a PITA!

Louie Hampton
 
MY '02 Impala had a tire monitor system but I think it worked via the ABS and traction control system, something about individual wheel turning speed. Light came on, go to shop, 25 bucks and off you go with a fixed flat.
 
Good to read you Louie!

I am car shopping now and want a Toyota. Are you pleased with the mileage?

I want one of these
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but America seems to have something against fuel efficiency. /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif The 35mpg of the turbo diesel sounds great!!

You Europeans and Aussies don't know how good you have it!
 
Ha! Ha!

That would be $8.30 US per gallon UK then. I can't find a gas station which pumps UK gallons; can you find one which does and accepts US dollars as payment? :)
 
Yeah, but in the US they rave over some crap hybrid car that gets "up to 34mpg". With these turbo diesels, 34mpg is standard for a truck like I posted.

Heck my car in Germany gets 50mpg and it is nothing special. I just know I can fill up for 55 euro and drive to the south of France on one tank of gas. That is 10hrs. Oh, and it is no power house, but comfortably cruises at 110mph. I can't find a car that will do that here in the states.

I am new car shopping now and have never been so unmotivated about it.
 
Is that miles per US or UK gallon? If UK, then the equivalents for US would be 28 and 42.

http://hilux.toyota.com.au/TWR/content/static/13290.pdf makes it sound like the turbo-diesel gets 27.3 miles per US gallon (8.6L/km). The 4-cyl. gasser gets 21 mpg and the 6-cyl. 19 mpg (all on average of stated values). That's not too far from what American stuff gets, is it? My 2000 GMC 3/4 ton van with a v-8 (305; old engine style) automatic gets 14 to 18 mpg while weighing in my driveway right now what that hilux is rated to weigh at maximum... I'd say you can cheer up a bit!
 
Nathan, you asked about my mileage. I'm pretty pleased with it. It's been awhile since I checked, but I recall about 22 per gal. What I like the most is the ride. When we go home to visit family, 9-10 hour drive, I feel less fatigue in this truck than any other vehicle we've made the trip in. Smooth ride. For a smallish full size it pulls pretty well also. We have a 23' light weight travel trailer we pull regularly. Hook up on a Friday after work, and stroll on down the road.

So what are you doing back in the States? Not single again are ya?

Louie
 
I'll take 27mpg over 19 any day. The Taliban chose the Hilux because they needed most power, durabilty, and dependabilty for their money. Me too

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Hey Louie you doing what I am doing really soon up in the ADK area. and yes the toyota can haul a good size camper . I am too looking into the truck world soon but the tire sensor deal is a lil old My bud just had us change over his tires to a bigger meater set and well tire sensor gone. We still run old school and have a pre trip inspection of trucks and equipent before jobs and well before trips or taking off in the any vehicle I do a tire inspect.
 
You took the sensors out of the wheel and installed a new valve stem, and the dash light stays off? The sensors I'm crying about are a part of the valve stem.

This has caused a bit of frustration around the house. We are looking to relocate from Texas and trying to SAVE money right now. Instead we seem to only find new and unexciting ways to spend MORE! The thing that really toasted my butt is that the reset procedure is in the manual, but it doesn't say anything about having to have the computer reprogrammed. Pay $100+ for a sensor, then find out that its gonna cost another $100+ to turn off the little orange idiot light (the new sensor was already in the wheel, the only way they could get the serial number was to break down the wheel and visually read it off the sensor itself, this they would gladly do for the low low price of $20.00).

Call me cheap, but I didn't want to pay anymore. Especially since these delicate little pieces of crap are going to be trouble for me in the future, you just know they will. Instead I cracked open the dash, pulled out the instrument cluster, and carefully lifted up the laminate face and slipped a piece of electrical tape over the hole that the lite is supposed to shine through. Put the dash back together and it looks good as new, better actually because the annoying lite doesn't show. Time involved, about 20 minutes, cost $0.00. I had planned to take the bulb out, but when I got the cluster out, I found that the lite is a mini LED soldered into a circuit board, I didn't want to tear that puppy up.

I regularly check my tires as you do, so this tire monitoring sensor thing, I think I can live without.

Louie
 
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Yeah, but in the US they rave over some crap hybrid car that gets "up to 34mpg". With these turbo diesels, 34mpg is standard for a truck like I posted.

Heck my car in Germany gets 50mpg and it is nothing special. I just know I can fill up for 55 euro and drive to the south of France on one tank of gas. That is 10hrs. Oh, and it is no power house, but comfortably cruises at 110mph. I can't find a car that will do that here in the states.

I am new car shopping now and have never been so unmotivated about it.

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Nathan,

Go to your local VW dealer (or the VW section of the classifieds). Our 02 beetle TDI (manual trans) gets 45+ mpg. I think the newer TDI's, being a little larger, get closer to 40 mpg, though that depends on where and how you drive, of course (some TDIers report 55mpg and up--check www.tdiclub.com). Same diff if you get the golf or the jetta (same car, different decorations). The Passat is a bigger, nicer car and does slightly less on the mileage (and you have to go older or very new, since they didn't make any TDI passats for a few years in the middle).

Not sure you can cruise at 110 mph, but I frequently look down and realize I'm up to 80 or above without meaning it. Nice, fun, comfortable cars. Better mileage than most (if not all) hybrids. Proven diesel technology. What's not to like?

k
 
None of the recent (Ford/GMC) trucks/vans I've been in would go past 90 mph or so; they're governed from the factory is what I've heard. They start dropping cylinder spark when the limit is reached.
 
He tore out all the guts to the old tires and put new ones on. took his truck to a tuner bud of his and had it either shut off or turned off from the comp. I think their is a fuse to these sensers.
As for beefing up trucks to do more than what they should some simple tuning of some aftermarket parts do help.

1. Cone air filters sytems
2. New headers and exsuast system
3. Light weight pullies and cams. ( light wieght crank shaft pully )
4. If you want to go really into it reprogram the comp.
There is more but that would involve a new thread.

I have tuned up cars and some toyota trucks to do some serious haulin, There are ways to get passed the goverment regs.
 
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