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I have just changed the original wheels and tires for winter & snow with steel wheels and Goodyear Nordic Winter snow tires. Of course, the new snows come with new valves. The TPMS warning light is now on continuously and it will be until I put back the all season wheels and tires in April.

My question is: is there a way to either remove the appropriate fuse, and if so - which fuse; OR is there a way to temporarily remove the feature from the vehicle's computer?
 
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Unsure. I bought a set of TPM sensors off Amazon for $100. They work fine.
 
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Hi Murman,
I do not have the sensors on my snow tires, but do those sensors have to be fitted inside the tires, or are they screw ins?
Is there a link to where you got them and do you have to adjust anything to make them work?
Thanks
 
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The sensors replace your valves. Be careful, if the area around the valve hole is not perfectly flattish, as in your original alloy wheels, and have a curve to them, like the hub centric steel wheels I bought - then you have to get replacement valve stem seals (rubber donuts) and a metal donut to help mash them down, or you will leak around the valve stem. It took Canadian Tire almost 3 weeks to get it right with my Nordic winter studded tires. Not a happy camper!!!
 
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paulmackie said:
Hi Murman,
I do not have the sensors on my snow tires, but do those sensors have to be fitted inside the tires, or are they screw ins?
Is there a link to where you got them and do you have to adjust anything to make them work?
Thanks
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They are mounted inside the rim. No adjustment of anything was required on my PAT. They were installed in a set of 16" OE PAT steel wheels. My OE wheels are the 17" aluminum wheels.
 
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You're stuck with the TPMS light on. Like others have said, some electrical tape will cover the warning light but you will still default to the message on EVIC.

I'm using Costco X99142N 17" steel wheels and Dorman 974-001 TPM sensors with no sealing or display issues.
 
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I'm surprised that your tire dealer didn't catch this--cars have had MANDATORY TPMS since the mid-2000's, or earlier. I'd go back to him and "suggest" that he replace/swap your TPMS sensors to your snow tires. And, like Murman said, a set of 4 is only $100 roughly.
 
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paulmackie said:
The tire dealer wanted $300 to put TPM sensors in my snow tires, so I passed on that; just going old school and check my tires before I drive away.
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Youwzza!!!

And you know they are getting people to pay that, retired librarians in their Subarus who drive around on high dollar winter wheels with high dollar winter tires that are studded from the end of September to the end of May...that type of scared driver is ripped for the money because of "safety".

Even up here in expensive Canada I can darn near get a full set of winter wheels and tires out of the junk yard for $300. Well, close any way. Fairly close...close enough for this discussion.

Makes that roll of black tape seem positively under priced, eh?
 
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Carcajou said:
That is why if I go ahead and order mine, TPS will not be on it.
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TPMS will be on it...they are on every new vehicle sold now...can not be deleted.

If you go upmarket enough its even on your spare tire.

I don't understand all the dislike...its unobtrusive, doesn't do anything at all until you have a low tire, then it tells you. Before you ruin a rim or worse, flip your grossly overloaded SUV into the ditch.

Put on winter rims and all you get is a single ding and a yellow idiot light flashing behind a strip of electrical tape. Put your summer rims back on and its back to working.

Its saved my tire/rim/whatever twice now. That is in two years.

And holy thread resurrection, eh?
 
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Someone posted a while ago about how he found a TPMS off setting on his wife's Patriot when he connected a Diesel Ram truck flash tuner to it. He apparently works for a commercial truck fleet and they use the tuners on all of the trucks. He also had options for changing the tire diameter and a few others, though he did not say if he messed with any on the settings with it. So it is definitely possible for the dealer to "turn it off", just not legal for them to do so, unless it's commercial/fleet as I don't think the law applies to that industry.
 
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