On 05/16/2018 05:58 AM, Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
>
>>>> The 2015 Prius has TPMS that alerts the driver to improper
>>>> pressures, but is there any way to display the individual tire
>>>> pressures on our Prius Four (as our Chrysler 300M did)?
>>
>>> What does your owner's manual say about the display and about the
>>> technology that generates the display?
>>
>> There is a picture in the Display Audio System Owner's Manual of a
>> display of the individual tire pressures, but I have not discovered
>> how to access it. The Owner's Manuals are "generic," covering vehicles
>> with every different trim level and option package, and with the
>> descriptions of so many features marked as "if equipped."
> yeah, that sucks.
>
> It could be that the car technically knows about the state of each
> individual tire, but your trim level doesn't allow you to see it.
>
> It could also be that the your car doesn't use individual sensors, but
> instead uses the ABS sensors to sense a difference in rotational speed
> to determine simply that there's a difference in tire pressure. In that
> case, there's no direct pressure measurement used and therefore no
> direct tire pressure measurement is available.
Now I have confirmed, as I read in an on-line forum, that the Display
Audio System Owner's Manual is not even specifically for the Prius, so
it may be that some more up-market Toyota models can display individual
tire pressures, but not the Prius.
Perce
>>>> The 2015 Prius has TPMS that alerts the driver to improper
>>>> pressures, but is there any way to display the individual tire
>>>> pressures on our Prius Four (as our Chrysler 300M did)?
>>
>>> What does your owner's manual say about the display and about the
>>> technology that generates the display?
>>
>> There is a picture in the Display Audio System Owner's Manual of a
>> display of the individual tire pressures, but I have not discovered
>> how to access it. The Owner's Manuals are "generic," covering vehicles
>> with every different trim level and option package, and with the
>> descriptions of so many features marked as "if equipped."
> yeah, that sucks.
>
> It could be that the car technically knows about the state of each
> individual tire, but your trim level doesn't allow you to see it.
>
> It could also be that the your car doesn't use individual sensors, but
> instead uses the ABS sensors to sense a difference in rotational speed
> to determine simply that there's a difference in tire pressure. In that
> case, there's no direct pressure measurement used and therefore no
> direct tire pressure measurement is available.