Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensors?
07-14-2008, 08:56 PM
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Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensors?
I'm seriously considering smothies and white walls...but I dont want to loose my Tire Pressure Monitoring system function. Is the sensor part of the valve stem or the rim? Can it be removed from the stock rims and put on the after market ones? 
07-14-2008, 09:19 PM
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The stems are two piece. A stem that snaps in like a regular valve stem and then the sensor that screws onto it. Yes, you can easily put sensors in the aftermarket wheels. I'd advise on getting new stem parts and not trying to reuse. That's the cheap part of the sensor setup.
10-25-2008, 04:13 PM
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The only issue is if they are not careful and brake the sensor when dismounting the tire. You won't need a new stem. It stays attached just like a non TPS stem would.
10-25-2008, 05:14 PM
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While we're on the subject........can you run with out the sensors? Reason being I put the sensors on my aftermarket wheels and want to put the factory wheels and tires on for winter. Must I buy new sensors or just remount the tires and swap them out. What does it do, just alert you when you start the car?
10-25-2008, 05:53 PM
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While we're on the subject........can you run with out the sensors? Reason being I put the sensors on my aftermarket wheels and want to put the factory wheels and tires on for winter. Must I buy new sensors or just remount the tires and swap them out. What does it do, just alert you when you start the car?
You can swap from one wheel to another, they will need to be learned unless you put them in the exact location on the vehicle that you removed them from.
10-29-2008, 10:24 PM
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One other qestion... I did take the SS for about a 2 mile ride after I put them on, and the light never came on. Was this because the OEM tires/rims were sitting there in the garage when I sarted the car there?