Joined
·
295 Posts
After reading through this thread I feel pretty dang lucky.
When I put winter tires on steel rims last fall I had the dealer do it and I purchased a set of OEM sensors from them to install in the new wheels.
Now I've put my stock rims and summer tires back on (with factory sensors still installed) and I fully expected to have to go down to a tire shop and have sensors re-linked, but I didn't. After a short drive the sensors re-linked themselves. And maybe it's a fluke but they even picked up the locations correctly.
I don't know exactly what this means - maybe my dealer just cloned the factory sensors as opposed to setting the winter rims up as new ones, that would explain the automatic re-linking but it seems unlikely that I put the sensors back in their correct positions; or maybe the system is just that smart and it detected the sensors and their distances from the brain to recalibrate the system automatically. Or maybe a tire gnome came and fixed it from me while I was sleeping.
I don't know. It's a mystery to me.
But I was pretty pumped that it worked out the way it did because now I know I can flip back and forth between wheel sets without having to worry about setting up sensors every time.
When I put winter tires on steel rims last fall I had the dealer do it and I purchased a set of OEM sensors from them to install in the new wheels.
Now I've put my stock rims and summer tires back on (with factory sensors still installed) and I fully expected to have to go down to a tire shop and have sensors re-linked, but I didn't. After a short drive the sensors re-linked themselves. And maybe it's a fluke but they even picked up the locations correctly.
I don't know exactly what this means - maybe my dealer just cloned the factory sensors as opposed to setting the winter rims up as new ones, that would explain the automatic re-linking but it seems unlikely that I put the sensors back in their correct positions; or maybe the system is just that smart and it detected the sensors and their distances from the brain to recalibrate the system automatically. Or maybe a tire gnome came and fixed it from me while I was sleeping.
I don't know. It's a mystery to me.
But I was pretty pumped that it worked out the way it did because now I know I can flip back and forth between wheel sets without having to worry about setting up sensors every time.