>Steel wheels
>TPMS
But why tho
TPMS requirements
Julian Fisher
Carter Ortiz
That's to sell the car in the United States.
Has nothing to do with keeping it installed in order to register it or pass inspection.
Nolan Martinez
Good shit. Sucks that there are no Discount Tires in my state though
Benjamin Cook
tirerack.com
>Does TPMS have to be functional in order to pass inspection?
>No. Confirmed by the DMV.
Well shit nigga, thanks for the tip. So does the tire company just try to scare us into buying the sensors to get more money out of us? I get that there is a convenience factor of having them but if I can do without then I will
Elijah Gomez
>They don't require it.. not any state I've ever lived in.
In the U.S., if you purchased a car or light duty vehicle manufactured after September 1, 2007, you have TPMS. If your model was manufactured after October 5, 2005, you might have TPMS. Prior to then, some higher-end vehicles came TPMS as a premium option. In the TREAD Act of 2000, the usa gov't mandated TPMS in all new vehicles with the following phased rollout:
== 20% == of new vehicles from Oct 5, 2005 - Aug 31, 2006
== 70% == of new vehicles from Sept 1, 2006 - Aug 31, 2007
== 100% == of new vehicles from Sept 1, 2007 and beyond
Can you bypass having TPMS so that the alert doesn't appear on the dash?
Well, hmmm. Under 49 U.S.C. 30122(b), "A manufacturer, distributor, dealer or motor vehicle repair business may not knowingly make inoperative any part of a device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment in compliance with an applicable motor vehicle safety standard. So, if you are not the owner or employee of an auto-related business, you can do something. If you dont have enough cash to install them, but enough to buy them, get 4 TPMS sensors and put one near each reader in wheel well. Calibrate or make the car sense them. Label each with the wheel they go to for future reference. Now put all 4 inside a small pvc pipe with capped ends and a shrader air valve stem. Pump 34 to 35 pounds air into pipe. Your sensors now see a nice pressure and dont trigger the dash warning light. Put pipe somewhere safe that the car can still read it. Under your seat? I have not tried this idea, but you can see it is one approach. When you do have the money to finish things, take the sensors out and finally install them properly.
Andrew Watson
You can take your existing sensors out of your current wheels and put them in your new wheels.
Jackson Robinson
Why did you even post this.
It has nothing to do with what I posted.
No, they are required by law to at least attempt to, though.
Anthony Foster
>So does the tire company just try to scare us into buying the sensors to get more money out of us?
Answered by
>"A manufacturer, distributor, dealer or motor vehicle repair business may not knowingly make inoperative any part
So it's just a liability thing. I can buy the wheels and tires and say I'm getting the TPMS installed elsewhere but not actually do it
Jayden Ross
this right here.
also whenever my mom gets tires from discount tire they always con her into buying new sensors. actually they con everybody that goes there, at least the one down the street.
Jason Rodriguez
But could I convince someone selling me tires + wheels that? Because I can't put on tires and obviously it's weird for me to have the tires put on before I deal with the sensor