tpms question

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MissNic

Discussion Starter · Jun 9, 2010

i was driving home today and all of a sudden my tpms light started blinking.
every other time its ever come on it wasn't blinking. only time it EVER blinked was the day i bought it and the tire blew on the highway, but i didn't know what it was.
so i see it blinking and was going to pull over in a park and it turned off, so i drove a little way and just pulled on a side street to check it out. all the tires are fine and i checked the air pressure and everything is good. so i continued driving.
i get on another road, it starts blinking again and then stop blinking but it still on. at this point i know my tires are visibly ok and i decided i was going to keep driving home because there wasn't going to be anything i could do on the side of the road anyway. so its on for about 5 minutes, i'm stopped at a light and it turns off and stayed off the rest of the way home.

it was really weird. could one of them be going bad? or any ideas as to why my tpms went crazy?

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iluvmyVersa08

· #2 · Jun 9, 2010

Ah the joys of TPMS ... I'm really glad I don't have it.

Could it be one of your sensors? How are they attached; to the wheel or rim? I have no idea how they work.

MissNic

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jun 9, 2010

beats me lol
all it really does is make me paranoid lol

iluvmyVersa08

· #4 · Jun 9, 2010

Your on new tires too right?

MissNic

Discussion Starter · #5 · Jun 9, 2010

the front two are brand new. thats why i flipped out lol i just spent $200 on tires.
but everything looked fine when i checked. idk

iluvmyVersa08

· #6 · Jun 9, 2010

Hmm ... I have no clue what it could be then ...

I'm surprised they let you put the two brand new ones in the front. Over here, they will put the two new tires in the rear.

An old man was at Canadian Tire trying to buy one brand new tire to put on the driver side. I felt like slapping him because he just did not understand the lady when she told him he had to put it in the rear, and it was recommended he buy two new ones for the rear ... Stubborn old man. He said "But my car is old" . She kept telling him that it did not matter what year it was. She was following the ministry standards.

MissNic

Discussion Starter · #7 · Jun 10, 2010

well the back tires are practically brand new. the front ones were the ones that were super worn because the car was out of alignment

iluvmyVersa08

· #8 · Jun 10, 2010

Ah ... What brand of tires are you using? They seem to wear fast for you.

MissNic

Discussion Starter · #9 · Jun 10, 2010

the front ones i just got replaced were falcons.
those are the only ones i've had on the car.

iluvmyVersa08

· #10 · Jun 10, 2010

I'm still running the stock Conti's for the summer.

I have Hankooks for the winters.

I have almost 34K on the car, and both sets of tires have a ton of tread left.

I wonder why yours wear so fast ...

MissNic

Discussion Starter · #11 · Jun 10, 2010

the ones i had wore fast because the alignment was way way off
it was only the sides that were worn. one side on each tire. could have switched tires and been ok lol
but these should last me a while
i'm pretty sure the back ones are still stock

JoshG

· #12 · Jun 10, 2010

What's TPMS?

MissNic

Discussion Starter · #13 · Jun 10, 2010

tire pressure monitoring system

Mogh

· #14 · Jun 10, 2010

It sounds to me like one of your tires is right on the verge of being low on air. I would just check the tires, or in your case get your man too. :lol:

On the subject of tire wear, it sounds like you have a bit of a different problem. Alignment can be an issue, but if the outside of each front tire was worn, that's 2 things working against you. Low air pressure and fast corners, not really bad alignment. Slow down the corners or up the rotations on the tires.

robj80

· #15 · Jun 10, 2010

Mine did this as well once. The light came on and was flashing, then went solid, then went off. Never came on again since. Tire pressure was fine. I think one of the sensors lost connection for whatever reason with the "brain" of the system. I wouldn't worry about it at all.

I have 37k on my stock tires which is a bridgestone be381. I have the 1.6 so I get different tires. They still look great and only had one rotation at 30k miles. They will not make it through a winter so I will be needing to put others on by then.

Falken ziex 912 tires can wear very quickly if that's what you had. They also get very loud when worn. I use to suggest them to everyone because they performed pretty good and were cheap but now I think people should look else where.

JoshG

· #16 · Jun 10, 2010

iluvmyVersa08 said:
Ah the joys of TPMS ... I'm really glad I don't have it.

MissNic said:
tire pressure monitoring system

How do I know if I have TPMS or not?

robj80

· #17 · Jun 10, 2010

Clean_4th gen said:
How do I know if I have TPMS or not?

You have it as it's standard and I think mandatory in all cars now.

Look for this to light up when you turn your key on.

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iluvmyVersa08

· #18 · Jun 10, 2010

robj80 said:
You have it as it's standard and I think mandatory in all cars now.

Look for this to light up when you turn your key on.

It's not standard or mandatory here in Canada. None of our Versa's have it.

robj80

· #19 · Jun 10, 2010

iluvmyVersa08 said:
It's not standard or mandatory here in Canada. None of our Versa's have it.

Sorry I meant in the USA and I should have put that. Also I think Canada uses a different symbol for it on cars that have it.

iluvmyVersa08

· #20 · Jun 10, 2010

I have no idea what the symbol is here.

My brother's SE-R is not equipped with it either.

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