xlt wheels on platinum

Just played around on their site. You should have no problems but if you are going to buy winter tires to mount on those rims give them a call.

RE: TPMS I go through this every year with my 2017 (and for 7 years before that with my 2009). I have a second set of wheels with Winter tires and suitable TPMS sensors. I have a tire store do the swap each Fall. When they do that, I ask them not to "re-learn" the TPMS because both sets of wheels are present on the truck at the same time. If TPMS gets reprogrammed at the time of the swap, it appears to work for a short time but later the TPMS light comes on and it has to be done again.

So, once I get the Summer tires unloaded and stored in the garage, I go back to the tire store and have them reprogram the TPMS for the Winter tires. It then works just fine until it's time to do it all over again come Spring.

star-art said:

RE: TPMS I go through this every year with my 2017 (and for 7 years before that with my 2009). I have a second set of wheels with Winter tires and suitable TPMS sensors. I have a tire store do the swap each Fall. When they do that, I ask them not to "re-learn" the TPMS because both sets of wheels are present on the truck at the same time. If TPMS gets reprogrammed at the time of the swap, it appears to work for a short time but later the TPMS light comes on and it has to be done again.

So, once I get the Summer tires unloaded and stored in the garage, I go back to the tire store and have them reprogram the TPMS for the Winter tires. It then works just fine until it's time to do it all over again come Spring.

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This is my first Ford so please forgive my ignorance...
Do you know if there's a process that we can do at home in the garage to link the TPMS to the vehicle without going to the tire shop?
Every one of my GM vehicles had the ability for me to do this. It saved me time and money, swapping my own winter and summer tire/wheel sets.

nate6966 said:

This is my first Ford so please forgive my ignorance...
Do you know if there's a process that we can do at home in the garage to link the TPMS to the vehicle without going to the tire shop?
Every one of my GM vehicles had the ability for me to do this. It saved me time and money, swapping my own winter and summer tire/wheel sets.

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My experience has been that you would need your own TPMS tool to train the sensors and update the vehicle computer if you want to perform the update at home. Even if you had two sets of wheels and the TPMS sensors were cloned to match, you'd lose the functionality of knowing which tire pressure was assigned to which tire since the vehicle computer has a TPMS sensor assigned by ID tag number to each of the 4 tire locations. As soon as you rotate tires without reassigning the sensor location, the tire specific pressure readings won't match the display on the instrument cluster. It obviously would still alert you to a low pressure situation, but you'd have to figure out which tire was affected by manual inspection instead of being able to look at the instrument cluster pressure readings.

All that being said, I run down to my local tire shop and pay the guy $10 twice a year to reprogram my sensors when I swap summer and winter tires.

My wife's Lexus HS250H has (caveat below) a feature where they can store 2 full sets of TPMS sensors, and you switch between them with a button under the glove box. Great idea for Northern climates!

Caveat: only available in the US. Canadian versions don't get this feature because... well, who knows why...

I'm going to add this idea to the "Ford are you listening..." thread. Should be mandatory on all vehicles as far as I'm concerned.

regarding learning tool:

Fords own tool is cheap, e.g. here https://www.amazon.com/Motorcraft-T...d&qid=1560961452&s=gateway&sr=8-14&th=1&psc=1

Regarding tire sizes:
the 20" wheels are "technically" under a hair under 32", while the 18" and 22" tires are slightly above.

I have 33" on 20s and it rides great. Michelin Defender LTX (not a real truck tire as load index is 115) 275/60r20