A TPMS — tyre pressure monitoring system — reads the real pressure inside each of your tyres and shows it on your dashboard. We retrofit the sensors into vehicles that never had them, and reprogram failing factory sensors on any car that did. Fully mobile across Gauteng, or by appointment at our premises.
Without TPMS you're driving blind on all three of these. With it, the cluster tells you before it costs you a tyre.
It catches out any car, and it's worse on the bigger, stiffer tyres of a bakkie, SUV or 4x4. You keep driving without knowing you're causing damage — and only once it's too late will you realise the tyre's already destroyed.
Pile weight into a loaded bakkie, SUV or 4x4 and your pressures need to go up with it. Without TPMS you're guessing off a gauge or by feel; with it, you can read the exact pressure on the cluster and know you've actually hit the number your load needs, instead of just close enough.
Drop your pressures for sand or mud and it's easy to forget to put air back in. TPMS keeps that number in front of you before you're back doing tar-road speeds on soft rubber.
Two different jobs, two different symptoms. Find yours below.
No warning light, no pressure readout, no TPMS menu on the cluster at all — because it never came fitted from the factory.
See the retrofit → REPLACEMENTA factory sensor has died on its own battery — any make or model. Usually one goes first and the rest of that set follow within months.
See the replacement →Plenty of vehicles, especially lower-spec models, left the factory with no TPMS hardware at all. We currently retrofit new-gen VW Amaroks and both old- and new-gen Ford Rangers. We supply and program the sensors, then code the vehicle's own modules so the cluster finally shows live tyre pressures and warnings.
Each new sensor is set up with the exact IDs your vehicle's modules are expecting to see.
The BCM and instrument cluster get coded to enable TPMS menus and warnings for the first time.
Take the programmed sensors to whichever fitment centre you use. They mount them on the rims, usually R40–R80 per tyre. Once fitted, drive about 10–20km at a constant speed above 30km/h before the cluster starts showing live temps and pressures.
Coding is a one-time charge for the vehicle, no matter how many sensors go in. Not sure if yours is supported? Ask — we're adding models as we test them.
This applies to any car that came with TPMS from the factory — hatchback, sedan, SUV or bakkie, any make or model. Those factory sensors run on a sealed internal battery that typically lasts 4 to 6 years. When one gives up, the others were built and fitted at the same time, so they're usually not far behind.
Read out the system to see exactly which wheel position has dropped out.
The new sensor is coded to match your vehicle's existing set, so the cluster accepts it straight away.
Your fitment centre mounts the new sensor. As soon as the car picks it up transmitting again, the TPMS light and error clear on their own — nothing further needed from us.
Worth knowing: the R1,000 callout is flat whether you replace 1 sensor or all 4 in that visit. Fix just one now and come back for the others later, and you'll pay a fresh R1,000 each time. Since the rest of the set is usually close behind anyway, it's often cheaper overall to replace all 4 in one visit.
Labour is charged per visit, not per sensor — so replacing a set together costs far less than doing them one at a time.
Pick the job, set the number of sensors, and send the estimate straight to Mike on WhatsApp.
Fitment is estimated at R40–R80 per tyre, paid directly to whichever tyre shop mounts the sensors.
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