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Old 12-07-2007, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by lakai
You can use the ones in your stock wheels in most cases, just make sure you tell the the tire shop guys that you have TPM in your wheels, otherwise they'll just rip them out like regular valve stems and damage/break the sensors. After that just make sure they balance the tires with the sensors installed. Those are the only things you should worry about. Also tell them to hand torque the lug nuts otherwise it will be hard to take them off.
You would trust the actual tire changer to listen to request and to take this care? You must have different kind of people in the tire shops that you go to. I would not expect the guy writing up the work order to effectively communicate this message to the worker...
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