Letters Tpms On Dashboard. Low tire pressure may lead to a blowout and vehicle crash. TPMS stands for "Tire Pressure Monitoring System" and it turns on whenever your car tires are irregularly inflated.
The TPMS light could either indicate that your TPMS is not properly recalibrated or that your tire pressure is too low. If you have a low tire on some models this will show via a picture of your vehicle and which tire is low. It happens every year, when the weather gets colder, a bizarre TPMS light appears on the dashboard, leaving a lot of Connecticut drivers wondering what's going on and should they be alarmed?
A universal TPMS tool can trigger or activate all known TPMS sensors on the market as opposed to TPMS tools that only trigger one or few sensors.
As its name suggests, a tire pressure monitoring system is more than a single part.
It compares the TPMS reported pressure to the initialization pressure. However, sometimes it turns on due to a drastic drop or rise in temperature. Warning lights are usually yellow or amber and resemble a cross section of a tire with an exclamation point and/or the letters "TPMS." (You can see one in the photo above.