[subiesailor]

Hi.

Wal Mart charges 7 bucks per rotation per tire here for cars with TPMS, and 2 bucks for cars without it.

I dont really care if my sensor lights up, I am more than capable of checking my tire pressure by myself like a big boy (some modern features are great but does anyone in human civilization appreciate this stupid feature?)

Is this the only consequence of ignoring the tpms on tire rotations? i want to save the 20 dollar difference.

What does TPMS have to do with tire rotation? As long as the tires remain on the car TPMS doesn't care. Sounds like a sales gimmick to me.

 

[subiesailor]

A lot of cars have TPMS that requires recalibrating every rotation. A lot of GMs and Chryslers for example. They display the pressures in clear numbers inside the car, so the system has to know which sensor = which tire.

All the new systems are very simple wireless battery sensors which simply signal the ECU that pressure is within spec doesn't matter if you rotate the tires or even if one is dumped in the spair tire bin with the proper pressure as long as all 4 sensors are seen and heard from thats all the TPMS system wants to know.

 

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Just had my 2013 OB in for its free oil change and paid $24.95 for tire rotation and Re programing the TPMS. I was told by the service manager that they only do this because sometimes the TPMS doesn't reset its self properly.

I will explain this one more time. Once the TPMS sensors are set up they do not require anything!!! That is they need NO SPECIAL TREATMENT when tires are rotated!

This means you can rotate the tires your self in your driveway and TPMS does not care..........

Any of you being sold the TPMS reset Bull are being taken for a ride.

 

[subiesailor]

Fact:

And yet our nanny USDOT/NHTSA is ‘so smart’ to mandate across the nation on how it is applied. Unless manufacturers can devise TPMS that is identical on all cars, there will always be exceptions/loopholes. kpk02 cites a fine example, the shop was in violation since they delivered the car with TPMS malfunctioning (but what else could they do).<O</O
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If the TPMS light remains lit I consider myself warned, but no I need Gov/someone to be responsible. I don’t want the temp gauge, let me have the idiot light (if I can remember between the blue/red indicator). There is no cure for stupid.<O</O

TPMS - is the result of too many people driving around with under inflated or flat tires till the tire explodes and they end up in a ditch because they were doing 75mph down the highway in a mini van full of kids. Run Flats were a major contributor to this.

I view TPMS like I do all the other fancy crap that has nothing to do with a car thats maintained and used correctly getting you from point A to Point B. In cases where you have shops that don't have the right tech to set up new TPMS sensors as long as they warn the vehicle operator and its in writing they can't be held responsible. However there will no doubt be Stupid people who go back an try to blame someone else for their stupidity at some point.

Which case you may find some shops choosing not to service your tires if reprogramming of "NEW" sensors is needed.

If TPMS was such a high liability then we would have some major problems with cars leaving shops with incomplete repairs - being driven around with engine lights on etc which pose a much higher risk to people than a tire pressure indicator light on the dash.

I put TPMS right up there with Nitrogen filled tires there are enough people out there that think "Nitrogen" filled tires indicated on their shop receipt is mandatory to a working functional vehicle. LOL - when if they hadn't flunked HS Science they would know that everyone's tires are nearly full of Nitrogen to start with.

 

[subiesailor]

What’s even funnier, if you had the shop mount a repaired flat (w/o ‘reprogramming’ FWIW), the TPMS would remain lit until 2 miles down the road. So they would’ve delivered the car malfunctioning, failing the TPMS regulation.
Again, stupid law.<O</O

Prime example of a law that will not ever be enforced at the tire end of the program.

The only time such thing will be enforced is during vehicle inspections as part of the registration process. Same applies to the engine error code light.