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      07-08-2014, 09:25 AM   #1
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Are the sensors easy to swap wheel to wheel? I had the square setup before and got the staggered rear rims and PSS tires to be installed today. I'm hoping they can install the sensors in the bare rims I got. Anyone who's gone aftermarket had to buy new sensors or did the tire shop swap them over?
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They are easy to swap over.
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They are easy to swap over.
Ok thanks, I just dropped it off at the tire shop and the girl said they would try, just wanted to know if it was possible. I tried to buy 2 more from the dealer, they said 3 weeks delivery from Germany.
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gone from staggered oem to square aftermarket and yes, you can just switch them over.
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Yeah they were able to swap them easily. Beats shelling out $120 per wheel for a new sensor.
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Yeah they were able to swap them easily. Beats shelling out $120 per wheel for a new sensor.
another option is aftermarket sensors, just make sure they work on BMWs

thats what I did, think I paid around $150 for all 4. Makes things a little easier when dealing w/ aftermarket wheels and wanting to go back and forth btwn both sets
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another option is aftermarket sensors, just make sure they work on BMWs

thats what I did, think I paid around $150 for all 4. Makes things a little easier when dealing w/ aftermarket wheels and wanting to go back and forth btwn both sets
Do you have a link where you got them? I'm going to start cobbling together my winter set and I don't want to move them back in forth between wheels twice a year. $150 is much better than $480.
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Do you have a link where you got them? I'm going to start cobbling together my winter set and I don't want to move them back in forth between wheels twice a year. $150 is much better than $480.
+1 on sensors for that cheap. I found on Tire Rack for the M235i the sensors are about 100 each wheel totaling 400. When i got winter setup for my 135i it cost me about 150 for a full set. Its crazy they are so expensive now.
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+1 on sensors for that cheap. I found on Tire Rack for the M235i the sensors are about 100 each wheel totaling 400. When i got winter setup for my 135i it cost me about 150 for a full set. Its crazy they are so expensive now.
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Do you have a link where you got them? I'm going to start cobbling together my winter set and I don't want to move them back in forth between wheels twice a year. $150 is much better than $480.
http://www.bavarianx.com/BMW_HUF_TPM..._BERU_s/62.htm

this is where i got them from, the price has gone up it seems as they are more than what i remembered but still way cheaper than what BMW sells them for
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If I don't have sensors on my winter setup I just get a warning light on my dash, right? Anything else?
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If I don't have sensors on my winter setup I just get a warning light on my dash, right? Anything else?
You won't know if you have a tire problem.
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If I don't have sensors on my winter setup I just get a warning light on my dash, right? Anything else?
You won't know if you have a tire problem.
Well yes, that goes without saying. Drove a lot of years without TPMS, for my winter setup I'm not too worried.

Other than the light is there anything else about the car itself that will be impacted? Can it be coded off then back on when summer wheels with TPMS are back on?
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Canadian late model BMWs (2014 M235i) - TPMS

This is directed at the Canadian participants in this TPMS thread:

Unless something has changed recently (ie 2014) Canadian BMWs do not use sensors in each of the 4 wheels. Warning of a low tire occurs via the ABS system (the low tire will rotate at a different speed). Tire pressure on the Canadian cars' screen does not show what pressure each tire is at because sensors aren't present. All you get is either a warning that there is a down tire (you need to get out and check all 4 with a gauge) or a notification that pressures are OK.

The Canadian system is called TPM whereas the others are TPMS.

The upside of not having sensors is economic and it makes swapping tires easier.

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Sensorless Canadians

Pray to Mojo - I'm curious - why are you at all concerned about TPMS sensors when your M235i did not have them to start with?

Please enlighten me. Thanks.

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