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Check tire pressure keeps coming on after i have filled tires..

MattTheBaker123

MattTheBaker123

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My check tire pressure light keeps coming on whenever i start my gp and i have repeatedly filled all of my tires up to the maximum air pressure and it still is on whenever i start my car. Im almost positive i have a tire out of balance, could this effect it in any way? Anybody know how i can get the reminder to turn off?
 


I have the same problem. Even after I bought a new set of tires and had them balanced, it still came on. Honestly, i just ignore it because I get my tires balance and rotated every coouple months and I check my tire pressure weekly.

But it would be nice to find a way to reset it.
 
Isn't there a reset? theres one for the engine oil monitor and one for the tire pressure monitor, i think the car needs to be in park to access it,
Also are you checking your tires when they are cold or hot?

(hot means you've driven on them for a few km's/miles) which will give you a false reading.

If I'm checking my tires when they are hot, i just over fill them a bit, then go back home, then the next day or a few hours later, I take out some air with my tire pressure gauge,

but i think you just need to reset it, i wouldn't ignore it, it'd annoy the hell out of me
 
go to the tire pressure gauge and press and hold the back arrow button worked on my brothers 04 gp
 
The light will always come on even if your tires are at the correct PSI, the sensors are overly sensitive IMO. The light in my sister's Grand Am is always on. I'm glad I don't have it in my GP.
 


if you have wheel sensors then there is a issue. The system on most has to be reset and the sensors relearned to the car to shut the light off, or they dont know where the sensors are on the car. I will get all the info for every GP with sensors (i work in a tire and wheel shop) and post on here, someone should sticky this btw. And also on the 97-03's that have a light, thats whats called Indirect TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring System) and does not go off of pressure, but off of the circumfrence of your tires and your speed sensors that measure them. If it detects about a 1/8 difference in one tire to another then it will trigger the light, which also has a reset procedure but again i'm not positive on it. If these are like the buicks there is a button in the fuse box. Again i will check all this and start and new thread so it can be stickied and i will link it in this one.
Also if you have Direct (with valve sensors) and your light will not shut off after reset procedure then more then likely the top notch tire shop you went to broke your sensor.

ALSO DO NOT PUT AFTERMARKET METAL VALVE CAPS ON DIRECT VALVE SENSORS!!
they corrode onto the stem and will not come back off, then when you try with pliers the top of the stem will break, and new sensors are about 65 each!!
 
I found the reset on the 97 button is under the dash by the pedals, just hold with the car on and release after a few seconds, the light will flash and turn off.
 
well then there ya go, i looked in the book and if you reset on the dash or with the button as stated in the old body style and that should do it. If that doesnt shut it off on the new style with wheel sensors then you have to have them relearned with a TPMS tool at a dealer or tire shop and then you will know if thats all it is or if you have a bad sensor. If theres a bad sensor the tool cannot get the signal when you try to relearn with it.
 
I put 2006-07 Monte Carlo rims on my car for the winter and they have pressure sensors on the valve stems but my TPMS is angry. Sometimes it'll give me an accurate reading but most of the time it won't read a thing. Just today my right rear said the tire had 128 lb's of pressure so that's amusing.
 


wow lol, are they the monte sensors or switched from your GP? I've never seen that but its pretty freakin awesome regardless since i've seen cars come in with over 100 lbs in em, they said they just kept puttin air in until the tire didn't squat!
 
Pittman06 said:
wow lol, are they the monte sensors or switched from your GP? I've never seen that but its pretty freakin awesome regardless since i've seen cars come in with over 100 lbs in em, they said they just kept puttin air in until the tire didn't squat!
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Sensor's wrong, I used a tire pressure gauge and it's only got 35 lbs in it.
 
Pittman06 said:
wow lol, are they the monte sensors or switched from your GP? I've never seen that but its pretty freakin awesome regardless since i've seen cars come in with over 100 lbs in em, they said they just kept puttin air in until the tire didn't squat!
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wow some ppl really dont have common sense
 
you have no idea, the best i've seen yet was a 95 grand am that a guy tried to do his own struts. He had the springs turned 180 degrees, and one of the bolts from the knuckle to the strut had been beat with a hammer, so he beat the nut on as far as possible, then filled the gap with a stick welder. This thing came in for an alignment and he said the front end was perfect, other then that and the ball joint that was falling out and the tie rod end that was held in with wire wrapped around it!
 
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