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07-17-2006, 03:10 PM
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Tire Rim Woes / tpm question
Well, my fronty hit the 7500 mile mark, so I went ahead and rotated the tires last weekend. I ran into a snag with my 21mm socket for my torque wrench -- I just had the short socket... But, I went ahead and torqued down the first bolt with it anyway -- it seemed harder to tighten then it should have been. Turns out as I tightened the bolt the head of the torque wrench was tearing a chunk out of the side of my rim...
Moral of this story - buy the proper equipment (another moral: when the temp. gets up to like 96 f, rotate your tires in the morning not at 3pm... My driveway was frying me like a slice of bacon) Anyway, praise the lord for a full-sized spare tire. I ended up buying an extended socket, and swapping the bad rim tire with the spare tire. I noticed this morning though that the old spare tire doesn't have a tire pressure monitoring stem (which means it's the only tire with a black stem). That seemed a little weird to me - if there's any tire I want to know when it's low, it's the spare one. My question to you guys is: can I buy a single TPM stem online, take it down to the tire shop and have them install it on the old spare tire? I'd like to have all 5 tires monitored... 
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07-17-2006, 03:19 PM
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im not exactly sure on how it works, but if it is something as simple as changing the stem cap then i am almost positive you could get one online or just go to your local dealer. if you are a good customer or the service manager is a nice guy they will probably give it to you. you could always just say "somebody stole the stem." either way im sure its a pretty penny unless youre really shady and go onto a dealer lot and steal one. not reccommended because this is illegal and i do not condone such actions what so ever.
i would have to look at the system but i would assume it would also involve a special kind of schraider (sp?) valve. you could also just put the cap from the old tire onto the new one. why do you want to monitor the spare/old tire if its just sitting there?
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07-17-2006, 04:49 PM
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Wow teriyakisaki -- That was a quick reply! I think the TMP transmitter sits at the base of the valve stem inside the tire, so I think the caps are nothing but protectors.
The reason I want the spare to be monitored is it would suck donkeys to have a tire go flat, only to find out the spare was flat too. The other 4 tires are easier to check... I knew someone with an old VW (I forget what model) that it's windshield washer fluid ran off of the spare tire pressure, so if he washed his windows a lot his spare would go flat. That got him a few times -- flat tire and flat spare, but a nice clean window.
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07-17-2006, 05:00 PM
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No. the ECU for the TPM is program to read 4 tires. Also you would need a sensor to read the TPM in the spare,
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07-17-2006, 06:22 PM
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07-17-2006, 06:33 PM
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hmm... I assumed that they worked like a transponder...
I didn't know they had batteries! u.u yay for $400 gone in one fell swoop!
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07-17-2006, 06:46 PM
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All the ones I have seen have battery inside.
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07-18-2006, 02:59 AM
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I can vouch for that price....the little lady has a 350Z on lease that is about to expire and she is getting it ready to turn back...she accidently left the sensors in the aftermarket rims she had on there. So when she reassembled the factory rims and tires to put them back on the car, she forgot to put them back in...the dealer told her a hundred bux a pop to replace them...
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07-18-2006, 09:04 AM
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$100 is a little steep... I guess if the one black valve stem bothers me enough I can always paint it... Thanks for the info guys. BTW, does anyone know who makes the TPM unit for our trucks?
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07-19-2006, 04:59 AM
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the same vw that used an aircooled lawnmower engine (talk about redundancy) to power its most popular vehicle?
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