Originally Posted by
onehundred80
Member ZR SRT6 wrote a post that is wry well worth reading. It concerns the use of Schrader Universal valves which can be matched to your existing valves that have died using the number on them or made to match the weak signal if they are just alive.
Mine died two years ago and I have done nothing about replacing them, I may get around to it sometime.
There is the problem.
Not going to pull all four tires from rims, at home, so I can read the numbers off the stock units to order replacements.
Because I'd wind up with same ole situation...
A TPS low Pressure light, no way to tell which tire is low from the cabin, and if I gotta check all four tires it will always be the last one I check.
F that.
Any system that tells you pressure at each corner is far, far superior to a TPS idiot light.
I'd just order the new whole new system instead.
I hear you can unhook the stock setup by going behind dome light and disconnect the micro connector.
Then get a modern version and be way happier.
I can feel when a tire is low, fronts dont steer properly, rears waggle the ***.
That can be surmised before you leave your neighborhood, and hit the highway.
Get more in tune with the car, it'll tell you what's up.
My two cents are when I lost a sidewall on a rear tire there was no need for tps to tell me, I knew right away!
I check my tires if Im going to be "driving".
Good tires are spendy and best to not trust any idiot light when it comes to what meets the road.
At best the stock system made you check all four tires.
Cheers and Good Luck