Maintaining proper tire pressure is crucial for vehicle handling, gas mileage, and your tires structural integrity. The TPMS (short for tire pressure monitoring system) helps car owners care for their vehicles utilizing pressure gauges to alert them to drops in tire inflation levels.
Its easy to forget about your Nissans TPMS, but its a valuable piece of technology built into most modern vehicles. This system is so crucial that U.S. law requires car manufacturers to add it to every new vehicle sold in the country ever since 2012.
TPMS come in two major varieties: direct and indirect. The former monitors pressure within the tire, and the second tracks tire RPMs to pinpoint imbalances between your tires.
If your Nissan has a direct TPMS, it leverages a Tire Pressure Monitoring System Sensor mounted inside of each of the tires to continuously gauge PSIs and activate a dashboard alert when something is amiss. Like the rest of your cars parts, a Tire Pressure Monitoring System Sensor may glitch if subjected to impact, overuse, or age, or if it is improperly installed following a tire replacement.
In most cases, the same dash light that lets you know when your tire pressure is low will become illuminated if there are issues within the tire pressure monitoring system itself. Sometimes a simple reset can fix these issues, but more often than not, a new TPMS is required.
Unless you really know your way around cars, removing and installing a new Tire Pressure Monitoring System Sensor is a challenging service best left to the pros. The process can involve detaching the old sensor from its valve, unseating the tire bead from the wheel to remove the old sensor, and carefully installing a new one. Once the new sensor is installed, your tires need to be reinflated and, (usually) balanced again, to boot! Also, depending on the Nissan model youre dealing with you may need to to take extra steps to make sure the new sensor is properly calibrated.
Whether you choose to visit your local Nissan experts for TPMS-related services, or you want to try performing the replacement at home, one thing is for sure: getting authentic Tire Pressure Monitoring System Sensor parts is your best bet. Order a Tire Pressure Monitoring System Sensor that fits your Nissan NV3500 2012-2020, Nissan NV2500 2016-2020, and Nissan NV1500 2016-2020. See the What This Fits tab for more info.
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