tpms warning light
11-10-11, 09:17 PM
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When there is a way there is a will!
I am just old school and back in the old days with not much technology, we did not need all these stuff and if I did not need it then I feel TPMS don't need them now, but those lights are anoying.
Thanks for all the info. I know it was useful to me and others that had not had a chance to look through these links and find options.
I am just old school and back in the old days with not much technology, we did not need all these stuff and if I did not need it then I feel TPMS don't need them now, but those lights are anoying.
Thanks for all the info. I know it was useful to me and others that had not had a chance to look through these links and find options.
11-11-11, 08:59 AM
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I am about to swap my wheels. I would rather not pay to have the TPMS relocated to the aftermarkets, then once again when I need to put the stocks back on when i return the car.
What issues would I have riding without the sensors? Is it just the light on the dash, or will I also be dealing with constant beeping, i.e. no seatbelt signal.
What issues would I have riding without the sensors? Is it just the light on the dash, or will I also be dealing with constant beeping, i.e. no seatbelt signal.
11-11-11, 10:30 AM
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I am about to swap my wheels. I would rather not pay to have the TPMS relocated to the aftermarkets, then once again when I need to put the stocks back on when i return the car.
What issues would I have riding without the sensors? Is it just the light on the dash, or will I also be dealing with constant beeping, i.e. no seatbelt signal.
What issues would I have riding without the sensors? Is it just the light on the dash, or will I also be dealing with constant beeping, i.e. no seatbelt signal.
Apart from that everything else still works.
11-11-11, 10:47 AM
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can i remove the tpms myself and just place it in the spare?
11-11-11, 11:46 AM
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Better, IMHO, is one of the pressurized canisters folks make (basically just a 4-6" PVC pipe, capped and filled with say 40 psi of air pressure, that the TPMS sensors are put into)
Realistically though- at that point you're already paying for removing them from the existing wheels... assuming your "new" ones aren't assembled yet it won't cost you much to put them in there rather than in the pipe canister (or spare tire).
You'll have to swap the sensors back into the stock wheels in either case too, so no added cost there.
So your only "extra" cost to actually install them in the new wheels, and have a working TPMS system for the years you have the car, is the cost of removing them from the aftermarket wheels once when you're ready to get rid of it.
And depending on the mileage between now and then the tires might be able ready to come off then anyway.
11-12-11, 12:33 AM
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)... that'd certainly be pretty easy to live with long as you won't have a bunch of different passengers who'll keep asking "Hey, what's wrong with your car that you have a dash light on?"
11-12-11, 02:57 AM
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I am about to swap my wheels. I would rather not pay to have the TPMS relocated to the aftermarkets, then once again when I need to put the stocks back on when i return the car.
What issues would I have riding without the sensors? Is it just the light on the dash, or will I also be dealing with constant beeping, i.e. no seatbelt signal.
What issues would I have riding without the sensors? Is it just the light on the dash, or will I also be dealing with constant beeping, i.e. no seatbelt signal.
Edit: Sorry for the double post, just read similar responses on the first page
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11-19-11, 09:01 PM
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ok guys, I got a problem now. I drove the car out for 50 mins away from my house, the tpms light pops up...The problem is that the check engine lights (the red triangle with "!" ) comes on too....what am I suppose to do now? is it suppose to pops up???? can I get rid of the check engine warning lights?
11-19-11, 09:53 PM
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Well i already told you what happend to me. the lights disappeared when i was close to my tpms (in my garage), and reappeared when i went far away. But supposedly this is wrong according to another member. Why dont you just transfer them to your new wheels? Honestly the cost of doing so is totally worth getting rid of the annoying warning lights.
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11-19-11, 10:13 PM
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Well i already told you what happend to me. the lights disappeared when i was close to my tpms (in my garage), and reappeared when i went far away. But supposedly this is wrong according to another member. Why dont you just transfer them to your new wheels? Honestly the cost of doing so is totally worth getting rid of the annoying warning lights.
For the record, no one said you were wrong....all we said is that your reasoning/theory behind the statement was wrong because the system doesn't continuously check for the sensors....instead it's a periodic check.
But, I think everyone would agree that taking out original sensors and either putting them in new wheels or making TPMS canister is worth getting getting rid of annoying lights.