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Old 01-05-2011, 07:42 PM
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TPMS Question

I am looking to buy aftermarket wheels and I was wondering will my stock TPMS fit the aftermarket wheels. The aftermarket wheels will fit TPMS.

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Old 01-05-2011, 08:08 PM
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I'm not sure on the mini's exactly but most are just sensors held on a metal "clamp". So to use stock ones you have to remove them from stock rims and have the tire shop install them.

I know the new tpms are really expensive (they switched frequencies) but the old ones can be had for fairly cheap as they are a universal part.
 
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Old 01-06-2011, 04:42 AM
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What year is the car, there is the older style band clamp, the newer style that is a part of the schrader valve and then the frequency of those changed on 2010 models I do believe.
 
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Old 01-06-2011, 05:33 AM
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And up to the middle of the 07 run, the TPMS used no sensors at all, so no problem if your car is an earlier build. My 07 S has the old style system with no sensors. The cars on the truck it arrived on were split, some new some old . . .
 
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