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New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:20 am
by CCS77
Got some new shoes for my Kizashi and on the way home the service TPMS light came on and is very annoying. Is there a way to reset? What are the chances of the tire guy breaking one? Totally sucks....I was strapped for cash before the tires no way am I paying a dealer to fix this.

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:15 pm
by Ronzuki
I'd take it straight back to where you purchased the tires. I've swapped tires around on two SX4s, and never had any issues. The latest swap involved removing tires the TPM Sensors from the original steel wheels and remounting to factory aluminums...no problems. I had this done at my local Buick GMC dealer. Nothing needs to be reprogrammed AFAIK unless maybe yoiu bought a different size tire?

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:14 am
by scorcher
What kind of ground grabbers did you get? The Dunlops on my 2010 will be worn out at 25k and that is 3K away.

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:09 am
by CCS77
http://www.falkentire.com/Tires/Ziex-ZE-912-2 $150ea installed. But I need to figure out this TPMS crud.

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:34 am
by scorcher
Tire installer should have reset the computer. Hopefully they did not damage any of them. The dealer can do it but they will want to be paid. Thanks for the info I will look into them. I was considering Continentals. I was going to go with 245 45 18.

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:53 pm
by CCS77
That's the size I got these in. The tire shop fixed the TPMS thing for me.

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:24 pm
by Ronzuki
How exactly did the tire 'fix' the TPMS....what was wrong so to speak? thanks.

Re: New trires...now a Service TPMS light

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:09 pm
by CCS77
Problem was they aired up the new tires to the max pressure the tire allowed instead of using the door jam numbers as a guide.