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TPMS warning without sensors and disabling

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Some advice here concerns sub-zero winters and is less relevant in a hot climate.

Detail card of the overview TPMS tire pressure sensors.

TPMS cannot be switched off. Independent reports agree there is no way to disable the light via OBD2 scanners, dealer tools or any setting, and the display is permanently active in the dashboard 1234567891011. Fitting wheels without sensors still triggers it, because the system reacts to the absence of expected sensor data 123456; with sensors removed the indicator persists while driving and OK clears only the momentary notice 1213141516.

  • Winter wheels without sensors. The warning appears after a delay, can be dismissed with OK, no sound is made, and it returns after an engine restart; several owners run this setup seasonally without other issues 17181920212223. With summer and winter sets swapped seasonally, the mismatch gives a continuous horseshoe-shaped warning, annoying but not disabling 24252627. Options: fit a sensor (BM133714XA) to the winter wheels and program it, which needs a special scanner with an antenna; dismiss the warning at every start; or ignore it and check pressure by hand. No owner found a permanent software fix 2829303132.
  • ECU firmware. Disabling it in firmware is mostly not possible because X80 ECU blocks vary too much for most tuners; a few specialist shops (some near Tver/Taldom, and Kaliningrad) can do it by ECU read/write, though it is non-trivial. A more drastic idea is a Mazda-donor engine/transmission swap and re-registering the car as a "контрактник" (contract-import vehicle) to run Mazda firmware, a major undertaking 33343536373839404142.
  • Is TPMS worth it? (conflict). One owner credits it with catching a rear puncture early 43. Others report sensors that missed two flats while another dead sensor kept falsely warning 44, or simply drive without working sensors, some not even sealing the mounting hole, and several keep removed sensors in the glovebox 454647484950.

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Dashboard TPMS warning screen after switching to a winter wheel set without sensors

Dashboard TPMS warning screen after switching to a winter wheel set without sensors

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