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11-02-2008, 02:21 PM | #1 |
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Tire Rotation
I have a question about rotating tires. Is that something that the dealer has to do, because of the tire pressure sensor? Or can anyone do it? Is the sensor built-in to the tire?
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11-02-2008, 03:27 PM | #2 |
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Any one can do it.
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11-02-2008, 11:21 PM | #3 |
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Instructions are in the owners manual.
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11-02-2008, 11:31 PM | #4 |
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You dont have to do anything different from a car without the sensors.
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11-02-2008, 11:56 PM | #5 |
Our tires have 160 treadwear. Most decent tires are atleast 400 treadwear.
What does that tell you. Your tires will wear out within a year or two no matter how many times you rotate them. Just save the 20 bucks or wahtever you spend on tire rotations every few months and use that to buy some good times when the time comes.
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11-03-2008, 10:38 AM | #6 | |
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11-03-2008, 10:39 AM | #7 |
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Or get better tires and rotate THOSE yourself
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11-03-2008, 10:42 AM | #8 |
Yeah, if you have a F1 pit crew with you (yes, sarcasm). If you don't have a hydrolic jack and or an air wrench it would take you way more than 10 mins to rotate an entire set of wheels by yourself.
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11-03-2008, 12:17 PM | #9 |
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I did mine last weekend in 10 mintutes using a 2-ton floor jack, 2 jack stands and a 4-way tire wrench....guess you just need some practice
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11-03-2008, 01:36 PM | #10 |
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Oh ok, I was just curious, how does the car detected the tire pressure? When you put the tire in, does it connect to some kind of sensor?
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11-03-2008, 01:53 PM | #11 |
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Don't know the exact methods they use, but the way the system figures out if something is wrong is it compares all the tires to each other. If one is off by more than I would guess 5 psi, it'll light up. This particular system can't tell you if say, your right front is low.
No connection at all. All of it is in the valve stem. ...I rotate every 10k...or 2 oil changes. |
11-03-2008, 10:01 PM | #12 |
that's right I went there
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The sensors are at the end of your valve steam, found that out the hard way
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11-03-2008, 11:00 PM | #13 |
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The sensors are wireless and they run off of an internal battery. They can tell you if one tire is low, but the Yaris is not advanced enough to show you which tire it is. If one or more tires are low, you will see a " ! " on the dash. More expensive cars will tell you which tire it is or you can look at the psi of each individual tire at anytime. They are located on the inside of the tire, mounted on the rim. They will not detect a sudden decrease in psi such as if you ran over a nail or had a tire going down fast.
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11-04-2008, 01:01 PM | #14 |
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I've got 205/40R-17 Bridgestone Potenza G 019 Grid XL on the Yaris. They have a Uniform Tire Quality Grade (UTQG) rating of 460AA.
To read more about UTQG, click on the link below. http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete....jsp?techid=48 Try not to compromise on tires as they are the only thing between your car and the road!
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