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My own experience installing tires with no sensors Posted by Saabpilot [Email] (#134) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Saabpilot) on Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:36:48 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
2008 9-3 Aero. Got a great deal on the Bay of the E on a gently used set of Borbet wheels with Dunlop Winter Sport M3 tires...without tire pressure sensors of course. In order to save my time and my back (I must be getting old to even admit this), I took the car to a tire place and had my stock wheels pulled off and the "new" winter wheels and tires installed. Leaving the tire place with my stock wheels in the trunk and rear seat, I got no tire pressure warning. I figured the sensors must still be communicating with the system, since the tires were inside the car. Although, if they can sense speed this would seem to contradict that.
I rent a garage for storage space and dropped off the wheels 10 minutes later. On the way home, I intentionally shut off the engine while at two different traffic lights, to see if the computer would reset and give me a tire pressure warning. All totaled, it must have taken about 25 minutes before I saw my first tire pressure warning. I was a bit surprised.
So now I'm driving with the warning on all the time, trying to determine if it's worth my time and money to have the dealer unprogram the system until I put my original wheels back on next Spring.
I certainly don't find it worth my money to pay the $91 each the dealer wants for the sensors (plus tire re-mount, plus re-balance, etc.).
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