You are the happy owner of a recent automobile, the pleasures of tactile devices, integrated technology should bring you a convenience of use of your Toyota Avalon important, nevertheless, which says technology says electrical, and as we all sadly know quite often there are disorders to solve. Today we will look at the tire pressure sensor and precisely how to reset the tire pressure sensor on Toyota Avalon, so that you won’t have anymore this indicator on your dashboard. To get this done, we will divide our article into two parts, first of all we will discuss the traditional case of a tire pressure indicator light that shows up and the process to follow, and then the case of a tire indicator that stays on even though inflated tires, so how to reset this tire sensor on Toyota Avalon.

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How to reset the tire pressure sensor on Toyota Avalon? By checking out the pressure of your tires

First, we will focus on the classic way to reset the tire sensor on Toyota Avalon, which if it lights up, here are the main actions:

  • As you probably know, an underinflated tire can go off, or explode, if you are driving and your Toyota Avalon’s tire pressure indicators turns on, rather quickly get out of the way, if you are on the highway hold your steering wheel strongly just in case.
  • Once stopped, visually check the condition of your tyres, if one of them is entirely flat, replace your wheel, if it is only under-inflated, go carefully to a petrol station.
  • Check the tire pressure of your Toyota Avalon using the pressure gauge and follow the brand suggestions on a label in the driver’s door.
  • If you notice during this re-inflation that a tire is damaged, have it changed
  • Finally, after re-inflation, you can turn your vehicle’s ignition back on and you should have applied the logical process of how to reset the tire pressure sensor on Toyota Avalon. The indicator light should have disappeared or go out after a few moments. If this is not the case, we recommend you to examine the following sections.

How to reset the Toyota Avalon tire pressure sensor that is still on when the tire pressure is good

Reset tire pressure sensor Toyota Avalon

Now that you tried the common process of how to remove the tire pressure sensor on Toyota Avalon, and it didn’t function, we will go forward to the second method, namely, the tires on my Toyota Avalon are well inflated and I still want to make this light disappear. It probably means you have a faulty tire pressure sensor. For this trouble, it will be necessary to reset the value in your vehicle’s dashboard. Even so, be cautious not to execute this while driving as pressure variations will disturb your pressure sensors. Generally speaking you have to go through the automobile options, then you should find an option to diagnose inflation or “deflation detection”, once in this tab, you have to hold down the selection button or the reset button according to the year of your Toyota Avalon until there is a message from the car console that confirms that the reset is taken into account (it usually takes a few moments). You can now turn off the ignition and restart your Toyota Avalon to see if the tire pressure light has gone out.

Alternative solution to remove the tire pressure sensor on Toyota Avalon: Change a faulty tire pressure sensor

If, despite your reset, the tire pressure indicator on your Toyota Avalon does not disappear, then the wisest method is to go to your mechanic, it is probably the tire pressure sensor on the valve that is malfunctioning or faulty on your Toyota Avalon. Be aware that in general the price of a unit is around 120€. Another choice that some prefer to adopt because the problem can be recurrent on some series is to deactivate the sensors through the use of an opcom and the diagnosis of your automobile. Nevertheless, this procedure is not advised because it may cause improper handling and disruption of the normal performance of your Toyota Avalon. Now you have all the keys in your hand to know how to reset the tire pressure sensor on Toyota Avalon.

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