Does the spare tire/ wheel have a TPMS sensor?

[smlobx]

I’m on the road and developed a slow leak in my rear tire where it was plugged last year. So I changed the tire and installed the factory spare.
after a few miles the TPMS not working came on and showed that the tire I had just replaced was not reading.

Is there a sensor on the spare or what…?

Thanks.

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[Biggy]

Mine didn't have one.

 

[Gvsukids]

I’m on the road and developed a slow leak in my rear tire where it was plugged last year. So I changed the tire and installed the factory spare.
after a few miles the TPMS not working came on and showed that the tire I had just replaced was not reading.

Is there a sensor on the spare or what…?

Thanks.

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/does-the-spare-tire-have-a-tpms.42437/

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/tpms-on-spare-tire.86475/

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/tpms-in-spare.53622/

 

[smlobx]

OK so it looks like the steel spare doesn’t have one.
Thanks!

 

[Artsifrtsi]

OK so it looks like the steel spare doesn’t have one.
Thanks!

Correct.

 

[kacey]

Check the actual pressure of the spare tire, just to make sure it's OK. Sometimes it's under-inflated by default and that's what the TPMS is picking up

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Check the actual pressure of the spare tire, just to make sure it's OK. Sometimes it's under-inflated by default and that's what the TPMS is picking up.

sorry, no.
There is NO sensor in the spare.
Thus, the TPMS system can't possibly pick up the pressure of the spare.
It just can't happen.

Further - once the tire with a TPMS sensor is mounted in the spare position, it's not picked up by the system. Only the 4 normal tire positions at each axle are detected and displayed.

Why would the spare be "under-inflated by default" anyway? Normally, tires come from the factory over-inflated, and that has included every spare tire on each Jeep we've bought.

 

[Rusty PW]

A big NOPE

 

[smlobx]

Just to bring this thread to a close I found a great tire place in Utah and had them replace the plug with a patch on the inside. They then switched the tires so the spare was put back in its place and viola! The tpms was working again on the original tire/wheel.

 

[GeneralMaximus]

Moral of the story, a plug is just temporary to get you to a tire shop. Get punctures patched. Its cheap and a heck of a lot better than any plug.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Moral of the story, a plug is just temporary to get you to a tire shop. Get punctures patched. Its cheap and a heck of a lot better than any plug.

I suppose it depends on the plug. We plugged literally hundreds of tires on cars, trucks and more - but then we had a plug gun that shot plugs shaped like an mushroom into the hole and pulled it back to the mushroom head was like a patch on the inside.
We liked those because it means nothing could get into the hole that the foreign object had made - no water, no grit, nothing.
Never had one fail.

 

[Hootbro]

Have to be careful with plugs. Many chain brand tire shops will not touch a customer plugged tire and refuse to do a inside pull through plug/patch repair.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Have to be careful with plugs. Many chain brand tire shops will not touch a customer plugged tire and refuse to do a inside pull through plug/patch repair.

You can really screw up the cords or do further damage. I can see that.
I've seen people plug at an angle other than what the hole was the foreign object made. I can sure understand where the tire shop would be coming from on that.

 

[GeneralMaximus]

Have to be careful with plugs. Many chain brand tire shops will not touch a customer plugged tire and refuse to do a inside pull through plug/patch repair.

I recently learned that, taking one of my cars to Tire Choice, down the street. I explained to the service manager that I literally just plugged it 5 minutes ago, so i could drive over from my house. Heck, I didnt even use any rubber cement. Fortunately he agreed to patch the tire. The other times, I always stopped at some random non-chain tire shop in the city and they never complained about patching a plugged tire.

 

[Hootbro]

I recently learned that, taking one of my cars to Tire Choice, down the street. I explained to the service manager that I literally just plugged it 5 minutes ago, so i could drive over from my house. Heck, I didnt even use any rubber cement. Fortunately he agreed to patch the tire. The other times, I always stopped at some random non-chain tire shop in the city and they never complained about patching a plugged tire.

Yeah, I ran into it a few years ago also. Wound up just finding a tire shop on the sketch side of town run by people of questionable immigration status that had no problem doing the repair.

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