Got 'er fixed.......

Two or three weeks ago, I posted a thread that the tire pressure monitors were acting up on our '07 Chrysler T&C. They'd show a low tire when there wasn't one, and a message would flash to "Service Tire System Soon".

A counter man at our local O'Reilly's said he could sell me the sensors for $60 each, but I'd have to take the vehicle to a tire shop or dealer to have them installed and programmed. I said, "Bull---".

Last weekend I popped one of the sensors out of a wheel, wrote down all of the numbers I could find on it, and took a picture of it. I put it back together so I could drive the vehicle.

I went surfed EBay and found a set of four refurbished sensors that matched all of the numbers for $64.88 for all four. They arrived this morning, and this afternoon I installed them, and rebalanced and rotated the tires in the process. When I went for a test drive, within 3 miles the sensors had all programmed themselves, the message went away, and the low tire light went out.

Live and learn.

Good deal!

I would assume "refurbished" means they found a way to replace the batteries.

Did they look like they had been opened?

Did the originals have a way to get into them?

Wondering, just in case any of mine fail.

Dumb question- what about replacing the tire pressure sensors with non-monitoring valve stems? Would it be a problem to disable the computer?

like you say E-bay my 2010 chev 17.00 for one les Schwab broke the outer bead stuck it in for free no need to dismount whole tire and rebalance

Actually, they looked like new.

It would be easy enough to just replace them with regular stems, but I don't know how you could disable just that function in the computer. There's overlap on the fuses. It's not like there's a fuse labeled "Tire System" that you could pull.

I might have done that if I could have figured out how.

God helps them, that help themselves!

Where is that in the Bible, book, chapter, and verse?

It's fine to get rid of them and drive with dash light on.

(quoted from post at 20:41:44 06/29/18) It's fine to get rid of them and drive with dash light on.

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Why even change them if you're gonna drive with the light on?

> I would assume "refurbished" means they found a way to replace the batteries.

These days, "refurbished" usually means an item that was returned. It's not new, maybe not in the original packaging but is in like-new condition.

The more gadgets they put on cars today is just something to give you aggravation when the vehicle gets a little old. I won't have a vehicle made this century unless I was in a position to trade it off every two years.

A week or two after my wife got a pair of new tires for our Highlander at the Toyota dealer the low tire pressure warning light came on. I found the low one and aired it up and a week and a half later it was on again. She was going to take it back to the dealer and I said OK but then I started to think about it. They would most likely replace the stem whether it needed one or not, and charge a hefty amount for reprogramming. So I brought it into the shop on a rainy day and found that the leak was at the stem, and it simply needed tightening. Saved a few bucks there.

A good friend of mine had the sensor problem and installed new stems. He also bought new smart stems and installed them i a piece of pipe with two caps on the ends. He then aied the pipe up to pressure tossed it under the seat and has been trouble free ever since.

(quoted from post at 08:01:10 06/30/18) A good friend of mine had the sensor problem and installed new stems. He also bought new smart stems and installed them i a piece of pipe with two caps on the ends. He then aied the pipe up to pressure tossed it under the seat and has been trouble free ever since.

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I love it! That's ingenious. Of course, if he ever gets pulled over, he'll be in handcuffs for suspicion of having a pipe bomb in the car. :lol:

(quoted from post at 23:22:33 06/29/18) Where is that in the Bible, book, chapter, and verse?

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The poster did not say it is in the Bible.

The saying is commonly attributed to Ben Frankllin, but the truth is he got it from an article published in 1698 about the reasonableness of government.

Empirical evidence of the truth of the saying is available all around you on a daily basis.

Sprint 6, you won't find those exact words in the Bible but it does teach the principle throughout. As an example, in 1 Peter 1:15-16 Peter writes, "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." But, though we have been saved by the grace of God holiness of life is sometime difficult as we still must deal with the flesh as Paul did in Romans 7. Briefly, he would say in verse 18, "I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." Seeing the battle he had with the flesh he would write in verse 24 "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Then he would tell us who would help him in verse 25, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." As an another example Paul wrote in Phil 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." He describes himself as "doing" and Christ as "helping" by strengthening. If we don't do, Christ won't strengthen. If we will seek to do God's will, He will enable us, but if we do nothing, He won't. But even then, because He loves us, He will chasten us when we are disobedient. Hope this answers your question.

(quoted from post at 10:01:24 06/30/18) Sprint 6, you won't find those exact words in the Bible but it does teach the principle throughout. As an example, in 1 Peter 1:15-16 Peter writes, "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy." But, though we have been saved by the grace of God holiness of life is sometime difficult as we still must deal with the flesh as Paul did in Romans 7. Briefly, he would say in verse 18, "I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not." Seeing the battle he had with the flesh he would write in verse 24 "O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? Then he would tell us who would help him in verse 25, "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." As an another example Paul wrote in Phil 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." He describes himself as "doing" and Christ as "helping" by strengthening. If we don't do, Christ won't strengthen. If we will seek to do God's will, He will enable us, but if we do nothing, He won't. But even then, because He loves us, He will chasten us when we are disobedient. Hope this answers your question.

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Glen, That is all very good and true, but that old saying still bothers me a lot because I think that it leads many people to think that they can be received into God's Grace and into heaven by doing good, and working hard, when we know that really we are all sinners and no amount of being good will save you without Christ.

Hi Showcrop, you are absolutely correct we are not saved by works, but by grace through faith and even our faith is the gift of God. Nevertheless once we are saved we have a responsibility to serve and obey God.It comes down to; why do we work? It is because we love Him and His love compels us to serve. Paul said in 2 Cor 5:14, "For the love of Christ constraineth us." Jesus said to His disciples, "If you love me keep my commandments." John 14:15 That speaks of first loving Christ, and if we do, we will willingly keep his commandments. This is taught in John 14:21 where we are told "he that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me; and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." Interestingly, the words "hath" and "keepeth" refer to continual, repeated action, or a striving to have and keep, hence the Christian responsibility to pursue following the Lord's commands. The keeping of his commandments is the evidence of our love for Him. As verse 24 tells us not keeping His commands is the evidence we don't love Him. "He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me." The real danger of the saying is complacency. The Lord saved us to serve Him, we serve by doing His will which is keeping His commands, unless you have an additional calling such as preaching, then your responsibility has increased. In all, we need to remember we are His workmanship and not our own.

(quoted from post at 04:22:33 06/30/18) Where is that in the Bible, book, chapter, and verse?

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It is not there!

In Texas you can't get inspected if a light, any light/warning verbiage, is on.

I'm not sure the sensors in a pipe will always accomplish a fix- they often need rotational motion of the tire to send the signal.

(quoted from post at 22:12:13 06/29/18) Dumb question- what about replacing the tire pressure sensors with non-monitoring valve stems? Would it be a problem to disable the computer?

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Why would anyone want to disable a TPS system ? They warm the driver of a leak before the tire completely deflates, breaks the bead, ruins the tire , ruins the rim and the driver looses control.