Please help me fix my TPMS.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
Please help me fix my TPMS.
I'm getting Cray wheels for my 08 vert delivered all built with tires/sensors and I'm looking for someone or somewhere I can go to get the new sensors registered with the car. The vendor I'm getting them from is 99.99% sure the magnet will work and I hope they are correct but if not I would have to use that TIPS tool thingy which nobody seems to have.
My local dealer has it but they want $50
and the online instructional video shows the process as under 2 minutes.
Anyone local can help out I would be eternally grateful and could reciprocate the favor with similiar.
My local dealer has it but they want $50
and the online instructional video shows the process as under 2 minutes.Anyone local can help out I would be eternally grateful and could reciprocate the favor with similiar.
Pro
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St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Magnets will not work on the C6 TPMS. Sorry I don't have the tool to help you out ( I think is goes for two hundred or more). Fifty at the dealer isn't too bad for a one time reset.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
You know, it's not the $50 that gets me as it is the silliness of the whole situation. My gawd, why make it such a cluster fugg to put different wheels on a car?
BTW, can I expect the same problems if I rotate my new wheels down the road? If so, maybe one of these tools would be a better investment.
BTW, can I expect the same problems if I rotate my new wheels down the road? If so, maybe one of these tools would be a better investment.
Melting Slicks
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From: Tannersville PA
St. Jude Donor '08
You know, it's not the $50 that gets me as it is the silliness of the whole situation. My gawd, why make it such a cluster fugg to put different wheels on a car?
BTW, can I expect the same problems if I rotate my new wheels down the road? If so, maybe one of these tools would be a better investment.
BTW, can I expect the same problems if I rotate my new wheels down the road? If so, maybe one of these tools would be a better investment.
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09
I've got the tool and you're welcome to stop by anytime (10977). If you're coming to the cruise on Sunday, I'll bring it with and we can do there.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
Outstanding! Are you a mechanic-similiar or did you just find you needed the tool frequently enough?
I won't have the wheels till Monday so no cruise-in for me (unless I come in my 86 Cutless Ciera beater
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09
Naa, I'm just a techie geek that needs every tool. I'll PM my address. Let me know when you want to stop by. I'm usually home from work by 6:30p weekdays.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
Thank you for the offer. I happened to find a guy at a local Pep Boys that has access to the tool. I'll know more tomorrow. I PM'd you my info, too.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
Well, I got my tires Friday and put them on the car. Drove around for a little bit to scuff them up and get the residual tape off and the DIC went from reading 00 to XX and the flat tire light came up. So, with magnet in hand I set the car to TPMS learn mode and as warned it didn't work. Drove the car home and called Pep Boys. They told me to call back on Saturday so the car sat overnight on the new wheels. Went out this morning to move my beater out of the way, started the Vette and the sensors are reading! They say 37 and 40 which is off by like 6 lbs. but maybe they will settle in? Funny though how they turned themselves on, unless it's reading from someone down the street 
Ahhh, technology!
Ahhh, technology!
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Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
I wound up getting a Bartec Trackside from Wright Tool Co., Jim Strobridge, 1-800-783-9826 Ext 194.
Make sure you tell him you heard of it on the forum and they have been giving forum members a $140 plus shipping deal.