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Originally Posted by joeylgarcia
my friend bought an 09 matrix this last may 2008 with tpms. later on she decided to buy summer tires and different wheels. the tire shop just transferred the oem tpms to the new set of wheels and tires and reset the tpms button. everything is still ok to this day
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Yeah, but that's a problem when you want to have another set of rims (steel) and winter tires. That would mean you have to take the winter tires apart again in the spring just to get the sensors out so you can put them back in the alloys. That's a pain in the A$$.
I have started looking into this and someone told me I can contact a car parts store (such as CarQuest) and they sell an aftermarket sensor for a fraction of the price of the sensors Toyota sells. If this is true, then it maybe worth it to buy these just for the winter tires and rims. I will have to make some calls and try to find this out for sure. I want to save my alloys but I don't want the hassle of taking apart both sets of rims and tires everytime I want to change them.
