NORCALSTI

I bought my farther new 3 piece wheels and in front we are fine but in rear on his 07 vette the new wheels we cannot use the stock tpms due to where the tire beads and size of the sensor.

The shop told me there is some sort of band i can use?? Does anyone have info on this band and can you reuse the stock sensor?

Thanks guys I just want to get my dad back on the road. This is a 07.

leadfoot4

What's normally used in this application is a very large "hose clamp", something that would be used in a heating/air condition duct application. For insurance, I'd also use a short piece of the 3M double sided tape that's used to hold air deflectors/sun shades in place. Tape the sensor in the "drop" in the center of the rim, then put the band clamp over the sensor.



On further thought, as I'm typing this, possibly Tire Rack sell the "bands", since they sell aftermarket wheels and sensors....

NORCALSTI

ok can i use my stock sensor and take off the valve stem section and just stick the plastic piece to the rim? I have a band allready and 3m tape but getting the sensor to sit flat on the rim the only way is to take off the valve stem and seeing if thats ok.

leadfoot4

That's kind of what you do, however you have to be careful, as the valve stem is also the sensor's "antenna", which sends the signal to the car's receiver. With my '01, the car's TPMS receiver is located in the LR of the hatch area, and when I had a set of aftermarket rims with the sensors "banded" in the front rims, and I cut down the valve stem, I had trouble with the receiver being able to pick up the signal from the RF tire.

NORCALSTI

what ill do is just cut a little off the ends and space it up off the wheel with a few 3m double sided strips.

Thanks again.

0Luke@tirerack

we do not sell the bands in question

leadfoot4

I was pretty sure of that, Luke, but didn't I see at one time some sort of plastic band used on the aftermarket systems that had the sensor in the "drop" of the rim?


(or is my memory simply going to hell?)