Tire

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OP has a PreRunner 4x4...

 

ya gotta speak his language man.

datligt ther on teh dash for the weel thingy majingy, is it uhh blinkin like a bug zapper on a moon free night or constant lit up like a bonfir on the bak 40.

 

OP, here is what you do:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7z3Ud2DZY

 

yes the light is on all the time.

 

Alright so here's what I've gathered:

1. OP asks for his tires to be rotated, likely in uninterpretable broken English
2. Shop takes wheels off, breaks bead on each tire, destroying tpms
3. Shop panics, throws tires on and uses "newfangled" impact gun at highest setting, shearing wheel stud
4. Shop attempts to fix stud, but instead completely disassembles braking system

Am I missing anything?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS7z3Ud2DZY

And PreRunner 4x4

 

Did you reset the system as was already suggested?

 

i got a life time rotation on the tires .all they did was rotate the tires and shearing off the wheel stud. thats when the light came on about 15 miles from the place.yes, i tried to reset the system,it's still on.

 

And you checked the tire pressure in all tires, including the spare?

 

Thats almost as funny as the post u made about naked fairys coming out of the woods from the 4 wheel drive switch thread.... i almost drenched my destop at work with coffee

 

Ditto.

New Federal law, when a vehicle is brought into a shop, the "tech" MUST adjust the inflation to the vehicle manufacturer's specified inflation levels unless the customer specifically requests that they not do it.

If the truck was at 35 when you went in, the "tech" would have dropped them to 28 rear 32 front or some other stupidity regardless of whether the tires are a load range C, D, or E.... and he likely didn't mess with the spare, meaning that the TPMS is going to throw a fit and light up on you.

Why the techs will lower pressure is beyond me. The purpose of the law was because some liberal think tank published that underinflation of tires wastes 10 trillion gallons of gas every hour or some such.
So for every underinflated car that the law helps to save fuel, there is a properly inflated car that they are hurting.

My '91 Escort used to get 60k out of Sears 45k tires running them at 35psi.
I've never once had a tire wear the center before the edges and I always run somewhere between the sidewall max and 5-10psi below (depends on the tire, 60-psi AT/KO truck tires I'll run at 50 for the highway)

 

yes i did the spare.

 

just got back from Discount Tires, they found and fixed a bad sensor, it was reading 80 psi instead of 35. Do they make two different sensors: one for aluminum rims and one for metal rims? Just curious. Discount Tires Rocks!! no broken studs.

 

Yes.

20 vs 40 degree, one for steel and one for alloy wheels.

The steel wheel sensor can be flipped 180 and used in alloy wheels, but in the future any tire shop needs to be aware of that or they will break the sensor when breaking the bead.

 

That explains why National Tire and Battery broke a sensor when they switched my metal rims to aluminum. Discount Tire is the only place that told me there was a difference. They said I should go back to NTB and get my money back but NTB says there's only one kind of sensor for that. Untrained and unqualified.

 

Got a citation for the "new federal law"?? Haven't heard that one before- but it troubles me cause the Toyota didn't make a recommendation for pressures on the 295 tires I use...so they best not adjust anything.

 

thanks rich 91710

 

Not directly, but it's been reported by multiple techs that know their stuff on one of the gun forums I hang on.

I'll see what I can find. By "new" I'm talking late 2008 or so... about the time the talking heads on the news were making a big deal about inflation levels when Obama was offering proper inflation as a solution to our fuel price issues.