New trires...now a Service TPMS light

CCS77 · Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:20 am

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.

Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:15 pm

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?

scorcher · Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:14 am

What kind of ground grabbers did you get? The Dunlops on my 2010 will be worn out at 25k and that is 3K away.

CCS77 · Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:09 am

http://www.falkentire.com/Tires/Ziex-ZE-912-2 $150ea installed. But I need to figure out this TPMS crud.

scorcher · Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:34 am

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.

CCS77 · Tue Mar 06, 2012 3:53 pm

That's the size I got these in. The tire shop fixed the TPMS thing for me.

Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:24 pm

How exactly did the tire 'fix' the TPMS....what was wrong so to speak? thanks.

CCS77 · Wed Mar 07, 2012 4:09 pm

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.