Thread: Noob Question - Tire Sensors and After Market Wheels

If would help if you told us what car you drive.

We can't read minds.

lol im sorry I was having trouble uploading my signature I have an 05' Grand Prix GT

More than likely your rims have rubber valve stems, so you shouldnt need them.

I would spend the money and get them. If not you are going to have a light on and a ding everytime you start the car.

Other option would be to forgo them from wherever you are getting the rims, and have the tire shop break down your stockers and swap the factory sensors into the new wheels.

Being an 05 GT, I doubt they have sensors.

But the OP still needs to check his rims for regular valve stems or plastic/metal sensor stems.

I have it? I'm also been asking myself the same

Definetely check the valve stems like everyone else says. I doubt your car has tire pressure monitors. One other thing you could check is when you first start the car up, and all the lights on the cluster turn on to show they're working, look for a symbol of the bottom half of a tire with an exclamation point in the middle of it. That's usually what it looks like, I'm not one hundred percent sure. Some late model GM cars use what's called a passive tire pressure monitoring system. It uses the wheel speed sensors to detect small differences in wheel speed due to underinflation of the tires. Hope that helps.

How can you delete it? When you change rims?