TPMS, yea or nay?
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St. Jude Donor '03-'04
I don't have them on mine. When i bought my wheels it already had tires with quite few miles left in it, so it would have cost around 250ish to take the TPMS out the stock wheels, then take the new wheels off the tires and then the TMPS in and the wheels back on.
I just hit reset to get rid of the Message in DIC, but other than that no issues here.
I just hit reset to get rid of the Message in DIC, but other than that no issues here.
Drifting
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From: Central FL
I swapped my run flats and wagon wheels for my Z06's and non run flats I had on my WS6...I just hit the reset button when I start and sometimes I realize I don't even have to. When these tires wear out I may swap the sensors and run flats back with the Z06's.
Racer
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From: Springfield MA
Bottom line cool to have, but you can live without them. I didn't bother since the early sensors cost a ridiculous amount and the vendor I received my tire package didn't offer them. I wasn't going to pay for new sensors and unmounting/remounting of new wheels and deal with local crooked tire shop prices. Some places won't even touch them because you didn't purchase the tires from them.
Burning Brakes
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From: Springfield IL.
Oldtimer
My car is a 99 with aftermarket wheels. The TPS still work. I left work one day and had a low pressure warning. I was able to stop and get some air, made it home and plugged the tire. I have no idea if the po installed new sensors when he installed the wheels and tires or not. I have a new set of Hancooks in the garage to install when the seasons over. I'll replace the batteries in the TPS when I replace the tires. The last few cars I've owned has had this feature and I like it. I'm a cheap -ss but not cheap enough to do without them.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Holland Landing Ontario
Did you know that you can replace the batteries in the sensors? There is a complete tutorial for this. Do a search on "Tire pressure monitor battery replacement".
If you have pulled yours out, please send them to me. I can make a fortune fixing them and selling them back for 1/2 price.
If you have pulled yours out, please send them to me. I can make a fortune fixing them and selling them back for 1/2 price.
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15-'16
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St. Jude Donor '03-'04
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St. Jude Donor '03-'04
In hindsight, it was a poor decision. When the Z06 came out they wanted to distinguish to the consumer that this was a serious contentender in the performance market... They wanted to make a very specific distinction between and standard C5 and the Z06, by putting non run flat performance tires on it and covering the road hazard aspect with a " Repair Kit"... As you know the C6 Z06 has run flats.
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In hindsight, it was a poor decision. When the Z06 came out they wanted to distinguish to the consumer that this was a serious contentender in the performance market... They wanted to make a very specific distinction between and standard C5 and the Z06, by putting non run flat performance
tires on it and covering the road hazard aspect with a " Repair Kit"... As you know the C6 Z06
has run flats.
tires on it and covering the road hazard aspect with a " Repair Kit"... As you know the C6 Z06
has run flats.
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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15-'16
That explains it. The Z06 "Repair Kit", with it's TPMS incompatible can of Fix-A-Flat, may have been the reason why no sensors were factory installed on Z06's. Thanks E-T.
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St. Jude Donor '03-'04
Hope this helps to make this a little clearer
Bill aka ET
