Wheel nuts

[girlsmiley]

And bras!

 

[girlsmiley]

And pesticides! Fuck all that!

 

[HisArpy]

Icbf. Which means I can't be fucked. I'd like to turn the warning light off.

Tyres and wheels are brand new. Do I need to know the tyre pressure of each wheel on the screen? No. I haven't before on a car three times as powerful, so no.

It's just annoying.

If it's an easy-ish fix I'll fix it. Otherwise meh

The sensors are the valve stems that are in the rims. They're pressure sensors as well as the inflation valve.

If your tyre shoppe didn't install the correct sensors, or didn't program your car for them, TAKE IT BACK AND DEMAND THEY FIX IT!!!

If your new rims won't accept the pressure sensors, because poor design by stupidheads, have a nerd friend make you a circuit board that transmits the proper signal to your car that says your tire pressure is fine and install it. He can use an existing sensor for the circuitry and add whatever it takes to "adjust" the input so the transmitter output says that there's 25 lbs minimum air pressure.

 

[rockcasbah]

have a nerd friend make you a circuit board that transmits the proper signal to your car that says your tire pressure is fine and install it. He can use an existing sensor for the circuitry and add whatever it takes to "adjust" the input so the transmitter output says that there's 25 lbs minimum air pressure.

Yeah, there's a good idea.

Maybe he could also make a little nuclear reactor out of spittle and tissue.

 

[Sean]

Sigh.

My car has a TPMS (tyre pressure monitoring system. I call it PMS because it pretty much has the same effects on my hormones.

Tyre pressure monitoring system. It basically tells you how much air is in your tyres, give or take.

Did I think about that when I bought new wheels? No.

So now I have a permanent warning sign saying check your PMS.

It's giving me PMS just thinking about it.

Find out which fuse it's on and pull it. Providing it's the only thing on that fuse, obvs.

 

[HisArpy]

Yeah, there's a good idea.

Maybe he could also make a little nuclear reactor out of spittle and tissue.

Dude.

As a basic "fix", the tyre shoppe should be able to fit new sensors or program the car to recognize the ones already in the tyres. It also wouldn't take much to make a pressure cylinder that would allow the sensors to be tossed inside of it and then air added to the cylinder.

Some thick walled stainless steel tubing threaded for caps on each end, a standard valve stem threaded into 1 cap and sealant on the threads before you tightened everything together with new TPSI valve stems inside. Add some air pressure to the cylinder with a hand pump and the sensors will transmit that pressure to the car.

Alternatively, drill and thread the cylinder to accept the tips of the wheel sensors, thread them in and assemble/inflate.

Put the whole assembly in the trunk next to where the spare tyre used to be.

Alternatively, so you don't have a "low yield pipe bomb" in your trunk, have a nerd guy take the circuit boards out of the sensors and "adjust" the circuit so it reads 33 psi all the time. Put the boards in the glove compartment and fuggedaboutit from then on.

Shouldn't cost more than 2 blowjobs. Put the daughter to work finding a nice boy with electronic skillz, then sit back and relax because problem solved.

 

[HisArpy]

Find out which fuse it's on and pull it. Providing it's the only thing on that fuse, obvs.

Oh my fucking gawd! THIS has got to be THE most stupid fucked up thing you've ever said. Bar none.

As an ABSOLUTELY LAST RESORT reach under the dash and remove the damn TPSI warning lightbulb before you remove a fuse from the circuitry. It doesn't stop the computer from warning you that the tyre pressure is low, you just don't see it anymore, but it doesn't cut the power to the active traction control system and any other circuits on that fuse.

The car is fucking computer controlled, pulling fuses is GODDAMNED FUCKING STUPID. Telling someone else, who has no clue what they're doing, to do it can get them killed and it'll be YOUR fault.

Take the car to the tyre shoppe and ask them to fix the problem. It could be simple, or low cost. At worst, you can have someone make a sensor circuit for you.

OTOH, recommending that someone voluntarily disable a government mandated safety system just to get rid of a warning light...

 

[Sean]

Oh my fucking gawd! THIS has got to be THE most stupid fucked up thing you've ever said. Bar none.

As an ABSOLUTELY LAST RESORT reach under the dash and remove the damn TPSI warning lightbulb before you remove a fuse from the circuitry. It doesn't stop the computer from warning you that the tyre pressure is low, you just don't see it anymore, but it doesn't cut the power to the active traction control system and any other circuits on that fuse.

The car is fucking computer controlled, pulling fuses is GODDAMNED FUCKING STUPID. Telling someone else, who has no clue what they're doing, to do it can get them killed and it'll be YOUR fault.

Take the car to the tyre shoppe and ask them to fix the problem. It could be simple, or low cost. At worst, you can have someone make a sensor circuit for you.

OTOH, recommending that someone voluntarily disable a government mandated safety system just to get rid of a warning light...

LOL. Once again Tim pontificates about stuff when he hasn't got a clue. Firstly, traction control has fuck all to do with the tyre pressure sensors. Secondly, tyre pressure warning systems aren't govt mandated.
Thirdly, you're a dickhead.

 

[Sean]

When warning lights come on in my truck I take the bulb out or use electrical tape to blend nicely with the color of the dash.

My Range Rover throws a second warning light if one of the warning light bulbs blows.

 

[Sean]

Well, that's a fucking annoying safety feature that requires 2 pieces of tape.

Range Rovers are nice.

I like it. Specially in the weather we've had the last week or so. My drive to work is mainly country lanes, snow ploughs and gritters are just a rumour in those parts.

 

[Sean]

I may be way off base but don't they have something to do with Jaguars?

Jaguar Land Rover is one company. Owned by Tata these days.

 

[Sean]

Aren't they an Indian company?
Do they still manufacture them in Britain?

Tata are global these days, but they started out as an Indian steel company. They still make 'em over here but they have plants all over the world too.

 

[thør]

Glad they didn't outsource the manufacturing. Keep British people employed and all that.
We outsource our manufacturing to Mexico.


Tatas *giggle*
K, I'm done being immature, couldn't resist.

Not all of it.....

Nice tatas....



Click on smile to see.

 

[HisArpy]

LOL. Once again Tim pontificates about stuff when he hasn't got a clue. Firstly, traction control has fuck all to do with the tyre pressure sensors. Secondly, tyre pressure warning systems aren't govt mandated.
Thirdly, you're a dickhead.

dudly, stop being a douchecanoe and SHUT the FUCK UP before you get someone killed or in trouble.

TPMS is mandated by the government. Even YOUR fucked up government mandated it in 2012.

TPMS Direct

Is TPMS mandatory? If so, when was it declared a standard safety feature?
The TREAD (Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation) Act was signed into United States Federal Law in the fall of 2000 and requires all vehicles manufactured on or after September 1, 2007 to be equipped with a tire pressure monitoring system.

In the United States, TPMS is mandatory for all vehicles produced after September 2007.

In the European Union, TPMS is mandatory for all new passenger vehicles released after November 1, 2012. From November 1, 2014, all new passenger vehicles sold in the European Union must be equipped with TPMS.

That alone ought to tell everyone to stop listening to EVERY DAM THING you EVER have to say.

Traction control is there to help the driver keep control of the vehicle under BOTH poor traction situations AND for stability control. One of the sensors for stability control is tire pressure. Another is G-force. This is why traction control doesn't work when you smoke the tires in a straight line and only slows a spinning wheel when you're going around corners.


Never EVER disconnect a safety device system by pulling the fuse for that circuit. Never EVER advocate that someone else do so. Especially when you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.

Fuck, Laurel should ban your ass and every fucking iteration of you from now until hell freezes over just for shooting off your mouth on this. Bad car repair advice is 1 thing, telling someone to disconnect a mandatory safety device then have HER KID operate the car on the highway is beyond fucking stupid.

 

[Sean]

dudly, stop being a douchecanoe and SHUT the FUCK UP before you get someone killed or in trouble.

TPMS is mandated by the government. Even YOUR fucked up government mandated it in 2012.

TPMS Direct





That alone ought to tell everyone to stop listening to EVERY DAM THING you EVER have to say.

Traction control is there to help the driver keep control of the vehicle under BOTH poor traction situations AND for stability control. One of the sensors for stability control is tire pressure. Another is G-force. This is why traction control doesn't work when you smoke the tires in a straight line and only slows a spinning wheel when you're going around corners.

Which part of the US or Eu is Australia in, Tim?

G force sensors for traction control? Are you on fucking drugs? Traction control measures one wheel spinning faster than the other on the same axle, you moron.

 

[thør]

In the mail today.

 

[HisArpy]

Which part of the US or Eu is Australia in, Tim?

G force sensors for traction control? Are you on fucking drugs? Traction control measures one wheel spinning faster than the other on the same axle, you moron.

I know you can't help being an asshole, but this is all you got? Seriously?

Traction control isn't there to keep you from burning rubber. It's there to HELP VEHICLE STABILITY. It's also why there's an accelerometer in the car - to measure G force as part of the vehicle stability system which INCLUDES traction control. Part of traction control is monitoring ALL systems which involve traction. Traction affecting things like wheel speed, G force, engine RPM's, gear selection, and TYRE PRESSURE.

I know you're a simpleton, but you really don't need to shove it into our faces ALL THE FUCKING TIME.


The next-to-best part of your reply is how you fucked up about how Aus isn't in the EU or the US. You'll note, I hope, that I didn't say it was in my post. YOU reading things into my words doesn't mean I said them. It means you're a douchecanoe who can't comprehend what he's reading.

But then we already knew that.

The best part is where you're still advocating that someone disconnect a safety system and then have her daughter drive the car. Talk about being a douchecanoe...

 

[HisArpy]

In the mail today.

Aluminum lug nuts? On steel lugs?

I wonder if anyone employed by that manufacturer ever heard of Galvanic corrosion?

 

[Sean]

I know you can't help being an asshole, but this is all you got? Seriously?

Traction control isn't there to keep you from burning rubber. It's there to HELP VEHICLE STABILITY. It's also why there's an accelerometer in the car - to measure G force as part of the vehicle stability system which INCLUDES traction control. Part of traction control is monitoring ALL systems which involve traction. Traction affecting things like wheel speed, G force, engine RPM's, gear selection, and TYRE PRESSURE.

Why do you constantly do this, Tim? This is arrant nonsense. It's blatantly clear you haven't got a fucking clue what you're talking about.

The next-to-best part of your reply is how you fucked up about how Aus isn't in the EU or the US. You'll note, I hope, that I didn't say it was in my post. YOU reading things into my words doesn't mean I said them. It means you're a douchecanoe who can't comprehend what he's reading.
.

Riiiiight, you just mentioned it was government mandated, why, exactly?

 

[Sean]

Tim, just thought you'd like to know, you're now famous on the Land Rover forum.

 

[Saint Peter]

that is lower that whale shit

 

[rockcasbah]

that is lower that whale shit

Sean’s there, so that’s a given.

 

[girlsmiley]

Dude.

As a basic "fix", the tyre shoppe should be able to fit new sensors

Maaaate. You are next level.

When I say simple fix I don't mean taking it back to fucking Hyundai and paying, I dunno... $700.

Sean, can't pick the fuse. Cluster and everything.

Next stop: mechanic. I'm due to give that bloke some money after selling the SS anyway.

Fucken cars, mate.

Never buying aftermarket wheels ever again. They look great but fuck me what a headache.

 

[girlsmiley]

This stage looking at over $3000. Australian. Which is about three dollars fiddy US, according to Kate.

 

[girlsmiley]

As far as I know, even if I bought sensors myself, I'd have to have them programmed. And not every tyre place can do it.

I don't know whether or not my existing sensors from the original wheels would work, as the new tyres are a different size altogether. Not sure about pressure.

So it's time to consult the mechanic.