homestead Posted March 1, 2021 Report Share Posted March 1, 2021 Went to costco today to get one of my tires repaired. He said the TPMS sensors have 7 year battery life and quoted me $60 each to replace sensors. Can't change batteries. No failures yet. My car is 8 yrs old. Anyone have theirs fail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestevens Posted March 1, 2021 Report Share Posted March 1, 2021 My friend had a TPMS sensor fail during a particularly bad cold snap after tires 5 years old. That all sounds about right. The battery is glued in such a way to make a waterproof seal which makes them hard to replace. Most folks here in the US would rather just pay the $60, plus I guess they could claim it's a safety issue. He has a Mitsubishi mirage which doesn't take kindly to third party TPMS replacement, we had to pay twice -- once for aftermarket sensor at a time shop and again to replace the sensor with a mitsu one at the dealership. Lucky the tire shop traded the cost of the sensor for an alignment instead. There is a video on youtube showing what it takes to replace the battery.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vonoretn Posted March 16, 2021 Report Share Posted March 16, 2021 They should last 10 years. If they are 315 HZ Sensors, you can buy 4 of them for $40 on Amazon. A typical honest tire shop will charge $15 per wheel to remove the tire, install the sensor and replace the tire. Make some phone calls, get the prices. My C-Max is a 2015, and the picture above is the wrong TPMS for my car. Mine has the brass tip and thread. Make sure they mark the tire rotational position, so you get your same tire balance effect when he's done, unless you want to pay extra to have them balanced too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jzchen Posted April 7, 2021 Report Share Posted April 7, 2021 (edited) Not in our C-MAX but in my '14 Scion iQ. When I trigger it with my Autel tool it doesn't respond. Eventually the tool times out with "Failed". Mileage on that car is right around 16k miles, low for a failure as I understand. I did buy it used in '17 so not sure what happened to that one sensor. The rest respond fine. (My wife traded our '13 Energi for a '18 Honda Clarity in 2018 and the sensors were fine, at around 60k mi if I recall correctly). Edited April 7, 2021 by jzchen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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