tire pressure sensors?
04-01-2008, 01:11 PM
#14
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RE: tire pressure sensors?
ORIGINAL: MustangChris04
What if you have an 08 mustang but dont have the option with the 6 gauge information system. Does the car still have the tire pressure censors?
What if you have an 08 mustang but dont have the option with the 6 gauge information system. Does the car still have the tire pressure censors?
04-01-2008, 01:30 PM
#16
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RE: tire pressure sensors?
It took them an extra 2 hours to just swap the bands and charged me 35 bucks per tire to do them not to mention the 60 dollars for the new bands from americanmuscle. PITA.
04-01-2008, 01:50 PM
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RE: tire pressure sensors?
About $500 worth of unnecessary crap and complexity, mostly because a few dimwits (I really don't feel like being PC about this particular issue) got got caught with underinflated tires on their Explorers a few years ago and paid the big price.
About half of that $ is tied up the sensors themselves, which are subject to being damaged if sufficient care is not taken whendemounting/mounting your tires.
Brief personal and somewhat anecdotal experience suggests that larger amounts of balance weights are apt to be necessary.
For anybody wishing to maintain one set of wheels/tires for the winter and a separate set for the other three seasons, that amount of $ buys two top-shelf tires out of the first four.
I find it more than a little insulting that this has been forced on us without any possibility of "opting-out".The personal implication is that I'm arbitrarily and capriciously considered to be no smarter and no more observant than the least competent driver in the country.
Norm
About half of that $ is tied up the sensors themselves, which are subject to being damaged if sufficient care is not taken whendemounting/mounting your tires.
Brief personal and somewhat anecdotal experience suggests that larger amounts of balance weights are apt to be necessary.
For anybody wishing to maintain one set of wheels/tires for the winter and a separate set for the other three seasons, that amount of $ buys two top-shelf tires out of the first four.
I find it more than a little insulting that this has been forced on us without any possibility of "opting-out".The personal implication is that I'm arbitrarily and capriciously considered to be no smarter and no more observant than the least competent driver in the country.
Norm
04-01-2008, 02:54 PM
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RE: tire pressure sensors?
I dunno if it's just me, but when I put on my new rims, I said meh, screw it, didn't have them do anything with the bands, just took off the OEM's, tossed on the new ones, and drove away. The light comes on everytime I turn on the car, but disappears after about 10 blinks. Doesn't bother me one bit.
