Had my winter tires mounted to another set of OEM Volt wheels I bought from another member off this site. He told me he would toss in 3 TPMS sensors but that they were off a 2016 so he didn't have use for them. However, when I got the wheels I cross checked the part numbers and the 3 sensors were 13598773 433 MHz "made in the U.K." sensors. From my understanding those are 2017 sensors. I bought a brand new sensor with the same part number from amazon to complete the set. Had them installed yesterday (pain in the butt, had to go to two different tire places since one refused to install them since I didn't buy the wheels or tires from them.) Anyway, the tire place installed them and said they reprogrammed the sensors. I drove about 8 miles home and it showed correct pressures (granted I had my other set in my car to bring them back home, I requested the winters inflated to 39psi which is what I ran my summers at...) today I drove about two miles ran into the store and left again and got maybe half a mile more and the tire monitoring system warning on my screen. Blinking orange tire pressure symbol for about a minute and the it went solid. All the pressures show "--".
I have a ATEQ VT5 tool on its way via amazon and should have it Tuesday but I'm concerned that this might be a larger issue then just needing a relearn. Anyone had experience with this? Would it take a couple miles of driving before it determined it couldn't read the sensors? Is there anyway to "turn on" the new sensor that came? There weren't switches or anything on it and I assumed the tire place would know how to activate it before mounting the tire...
Side note, do chevy dealers mount tires? I'm thinking of buying run flats come spring & I really don't want to play this game of hunting and finding a tire store that will install tires that I didn't purchase from them. One shop quoted me $200+ to mount them (this would have brought my total cost per tire for Blizzaks WS80 to ~$215 each!!) once they found out I already owned the tires... and this shop... well they may have not programmed the TPMS sensors correctly... >.<
I have a ATEQ VT5 tool on its way via amazon and should have it Tuesday but I'm concerned that this might be a larger issue then just needing a relearn. Anyone had experience with this? Would it take a couple miles of driving before it determined it couldn't read the sensors? Is there anyway to "turn on" the new sensor that came? There weren't switches or anything on it and I assumed the tire place would know how to activate it before mounting the tire...
Side note, do chevy dealers mount tires? I'm thinking of buying run flats come spring & I really don't want to play this game of hunting and finding a tire store that will install tires that I didn't purchase from them. One shop quoted me $200+ to mount them (this would have brought my total cost per tire for Blizzaks WS80 to ~$215 each!!) once they found out I already owned the tires... and this shop... well they may have not programmed the TPMS sensors correctly... >.<