Reusing TPMS sensors on new wheels?

**supamannn99** · 03-01-2009 03:55 PM

Hey guys i have a simple question about our TPMS sensors.

For those of you who have aftermarket wheels, did you reuse the OEM TPMS sensors and put them on the new wheels? Or did you spend a few hundred on new sensors? I don't think this has been addressed before..

**A4ringedONE8T** · 03-01-2009 03:59 PM

Or can you turn that shit off?

**supamannn99** · 03-01-2009 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by A4ringedONE8T

Or can you turn that shit off?

..that too. because TPMS is one of the stupidest mandatory shit ever made for cars. it's for dumbasses who can't tell they have a flat tire or lazy people who don't want to check their own tire pressures and rely on electronics to do the job

**nick71692** · 03-01-2009 05:32 PM

i heard this can be turned off but not sure how maybe someone can enlighten us, i have been wondering the same question myself

**apatchin** · 03-01-2009 06:00 PM

im pretty sure you can vag them off, but I use them in my summer wheels (19's) and dont in my stock ti winter wheels. kinda annoying but im used to it now. so yes you can they work fine:)

**scoobycarolan** · 03-01-2009 08:23 PM

From what I understand the sensors can be moved.

**supamannn99** · 03-01-2009 09:56 PM

cool thanks guys :)

**Subaru71** · 03-01-2009 11:25 PM

They can be moved as long as the barrels of the new wheels can accommodate them.

and IMO it's good to have them. 1st week having my car, the sensor went on at a freeway offramp. I didn't feel anything but stopped at the side of the road anyway. All the tires looked fine visually. I waited about 30 seconds - 1 min, the LR tire flattened.. I ran over something apparently and gashed it on the tread, slow leak.. but it saved my rims from being bent if I kept driving :/

**praudi** · 03-02-2009 05:05 AM

Select -> 17-Instruments -> Adaptation -> Channel 61.

Subtract 512 from whatever value you find there.

thats to vag it off hope it works

**dope a4** · 03-02-2009 05:13 AM

i just took em out and turn it off with vag com....cant run them with the crazy stretch

**A4ringedONE8T** · 03-02-2009 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by praudi

Select -> 17-Instruments -> Adaptation -> Channel 61.

Subtract 512 from whatever value you find there.

thats to vag it off hope it works

Thanks

**whitevdub** · 03-02-2009 05:46 AM

i use them in my stock wheels and not in my winter wheels...they just throw off a code on the dash but no beeping or nothing. im used to seeing it by now