2000< TPMS and valve stems
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2013
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From: Ontario
2000< TPMS and valve stems
I had a horrible ordeal with kal tire where they destroyed my two front sensors, both valve stems were leaking, they had none available and wanted to extort me for nearly 500$ per tpms, long story short i have no tpms in the front now.... they installed c6 universal ones not knowing 97-00 are different.. then went to standard.
The rear left started leaking and i figured its time i figure out what to do...
it seems the company that sold me the tires when they mounted the wheels used something really crappy... tire is fine.. wheel is fine.. valve stem is leaking again.. i have to keep refilling air
Help a brother out... im in canada... so yeah.. i would need two fronts to replace regulars and one rear to replace the leaking one now.... and i guess a better tpms...
GM oem is insane...
The rear left started leaking and i figured its time i figure out what to do...
it seems the company that sold me the tires when they mounted the wheels used something really crappy... tire is fine.. wheel is fine.. valve stem is leaking again.. i have to keep refilling air
Help a brother out... im in canada... so yeah.. i would need two fronts to replace regulars and one rear to replace the leaking one now.... and i guess a better tpms...
GM oem is insane...
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Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 871
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From: Ontario
Yeah these are aftermarket not oem... when i purchased the car it had non oem wheels (bmw lol...) and i got c6z replicas and some aftermarket ones.
Long story short the way they fit was outwardly not against the rim.. so when the stupid shop was to fix them they broke one, the other is okay.. they tried to tell me its all done wrong and tried to sell me c6 ones not knowing they wont work then the gm dealership ones for an arm and a leg. Then they confessed that the sensors are fine but the valve stems are the problem and they had no replacements.
Anyways looks like the rears started leaking too........ so now i have none in front.. and the aftermarket one in rear leaking... id like to just replace the rear right for now...
Long story short the way they fit was outwardly not against the rim.. so when the stupid shop was to fix them they broke one, the other is okay.. they tried to tell me its all done wrong and tried to sell me c6 ones not knowing they wont work then the gm dealership ones for an arm and a leg. Then they confessed that the sensors are fine but the valve stems are the problem and they had no replacements.
Anyways looks like the rears started leaking too........ so now i have none in front.. and the aftermarket one in rear leaking... id like to just replace the rear right for now...
Melting Slicks
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You might check here. I put a set of 4 of these on my 98 and have been very well pleased. Note, you cannot use a magnet on these to program them. It requires an electronic programmer. My local Discount Tire was mounting tires for me and he verified his programmer would work on these. It took about 45 seconds to program all 4 sensors. There are purists that won't use anything except the Schraders but I've found these to work quite well. https://tpms247.com/
Racer
Joined: Jul 2016
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You might check here. I put a set of 4 of these on my 98 and have been very well pleased. Note, you cannot use a magnet on these to program them. It requires an electronic programmer. My local Discount Tire was mounting tires for me and he verified his programmer would work on these. It took about 45 seconds to program all 4 sensors. There are purists that won't use anything except the Schraders but I've found these to work quite well. https://tpms247.com/
