Tire question----
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Tire question----
I currently have the GY run flats and I'm looking for a new tire when I get the next set. The Kumho run flats look good. My question is- if I get the Kumhos, will the tire pressure sensors/DIC still work? Excuse me if it is a dumb question but I usually get great help here. Thanks in advance!! 
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Yes, they will work just fine. Go for it.
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Originally Posted by MYCoupe
Just make sure you keep the wheels in the same location on the car when you mount the new tires. Otherwise, you'll have to retrain the sensors.
p.s.-Kuhmo's are OK, Michelin pilot sport A/S ZP are better!
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Originally Posted by The Nuts
I didn't keep my wheels in the same location and I didn't have to retrain my sensors...maybe I got lucky? ...
That's ok, the car doesn't know that... however if you let the air out of one of the tires (one that got moved) it will display on the instrument panel in its previous location.
You probably should retrain them so you don't go looking for a flat tire only to find it has all of it's air...
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Originally Posted by GUSTO14
Nuts...
That's ok, the car doesn't know that... however if you let the air out of one of the tires (one that got moved) it will display on the instrument panel in its previous location.
You probably should retrain them so you don't go looking for a flat tire only to find it has all of it's air...
GUSTO
That's ok, the car doesn't know that... however if you let the air out of one of the tires (one that got moved) it will display on the instrument panel in its previous location.
You probably should retrain them so you don't go looking for a flat tire only to find it has all of it's air...
GUSTO
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Originally Posted by The Nuts
I let air out if one of my tires to check if it was working correctly after I installed the tires(I'm an ASE technician) and drove it around for about a mile and it correctly showed the pressure after a 1/4 mile...so, I must be lucky
Since you are an ASE technician, you know, the computer only knows the order in which you train the sensors... LF, RF, RR, LR... If you were to train them in reverse order, the DIC will simply display the left rear tire pressure in the right front position on the DIC... etc. Therefore they must not have gotten switched around...
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Originally Posted by GUSTO14
Then they obviously didn't get mixed up when they were changed out.
Since you are an ASE technician, you know, the computer only knows the order in which you train the sensors... LF, RF, RR, LR... If you were to train them in reverse order, the DIC will simply display the left rear tire pressure in the right front position on the DIC... etc. Therefore they must not have gotten switched around...
GUSTO
Since you are an ASE technician, you know, the computer only knows the order in which you train the sensors... LF, RF, RR, LR... If you were to train them in reverse order, the DIC will simply display the left rear tire pressure in the right front position on the DIC... etc. Therefore they must not have gotten switched around...
GUSTO
HUH? I just cross rotated the left wheel w/ the right wheel w/ the sensors still on them, I KNOW for a fact the sensors and wheels WERE NOT in the same location as they were prior to my swap, and they're working perfectly, I personally swapped them and know where the sensors were and being a qualified and capable technician I think I'd remember if the sensors were in their original position, thank you. My point is I didnt have any trouble "training" them, they "trained" themselves after driving it less than a mile
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Originally Posted by The Nuts
HUH? I just cross rotated the left wheel w/ the right wheel w/ the sensors still on them, I KNOW for a fact the sensors and wheels WERE NOT in the same location as they were prior to my swap, and they're working perfectly, I personally swapped them and know where the sensors were and being a qualified and capable technician I think I'd remember if the sensors were in their original position, thank you. My point is I didnt have any trouble "training" them, they "trained" themselves after driving it less than a mile
Any chance that they were reversed prior to your rotating the tires? The computer only knows which wheel is which because during programming it tells you when to activate each sensor on a specified wheel with a magnet. That would be the only thing that would make sense for it to work as you described. Otherwise the computer would still read the pressures, but would read them at incorrect locations.
Chris
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Originally Posted by The Nuts
HUH? I just cross rotated the left wheel w/ the right wheel w/ the sensors still on them, I KNOW for a fact the sensors and wheels WERE NOT in the same location as they were prior to my swap, and they're working perfectly, I personally swapped them and know where the sensors were and being a qualified and capable technician I think I'd remember if the sensors were in their original position, thank you. My point is I didnt have any trouble "training" them, they "trained" themselves after driving it less than a mile
Could someone else in the shop have done it for you and you not know about it? 
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Originally Posted by 04MSGCoupe
That doesn't make any sense, the sensors can't "train" themselves. Could someone else in the shop have done it for you and you not know about it?
Could someone else in the shop have done it for you and you not know about it? Last edited by rgtkst; Aug 18, 2006 at 11:47 PM.
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Originally Posted by DngrZne
Any chance that they were reversed prior to your rotating the tires? The computer only knows which wheel is which because during programming it tells you when to activate each sensor on a specified wheel with a magnet. That would be the only thing that would make sense for it to work as you described. Otherwise the computer would still read the pressures, but would read them at incorrect locations.
Chris
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