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New winter tires on spare wheels

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KillerCharlie

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I got some extra wheels with used winter tires on them from a friend. I'm going to need to replace the tires soon. Will most tire stores mount and balance tires on wheels separately (not attached to the car))?

I'm trying to get around the problem of TPMS. I know that most tire places won't put wheels on your car if you don't put pressure monitors in. I plan on swapping these quite a bit and the warning light doesn't bother me, so I really don't want to buy and calibrate more TPMS, but I don't know if they'll mount tires on wheels knowing they're going on my car without TPMS.
 
What you want to do can be done. Whether a store will do it is another question.

Some Googling
According to the law, “A manufacturer, distributor, dealer, or motor vehicle repair business may not knowingly make inoperative any part of a device or element of design installed on or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment in compliance with an applicable motor vehicle safety standard

Call some tire places and ask.
 
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If you just take in the tires and rims and tell them to mount them, they need not know what vehicle they'll be installed on. Grab your jack and put them on yourself.

Given that I drive fewer miles on my winter tires, and cold hurts batteries, I'd expect a hypothetical TPMS (my car doesn't have them) to be long dead by the time my winter tires would need to be changed.
 
Do you have a TPMS Sensor that can be cloned? My Subaru's could. Went to a guy on the NASOIC forums who'll rent you the Scanner to scan your current TPMS, then you order a set of TPMS Sensors that are programmable, like the Schrader EZ-Sensor, and have those programmed with your current TPMS Sensor ID's, and voila, you've got a set of sensors that you can put in your spare wheels. That's how I run my winters.
 
thecoolnessrune said:
Do you have a TPMS Sensor that can be cloned? My Subaru's could. Went to a guy on the NASOIC forums who'll rent you the Scanner to scan your current TPMS, then you order a set of TPMS Sensors that are programmable, like the Schrader EZ-Sensor, and have those programmed with your current TPMS Sensor ID's, and voila, you've got a set of sensors that you can put in your spare wheels. That's how I run my winters.
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It's probably with a try since I live in Seattle where half the population drive Subarus.
 
Most shops as mentioned, if you just bring in the wheels won't care or ask about TPMS ... For all they know you are using it on an off road vehicle or similar, which would not have TPMS... or look in the yellow pages for a shop that does custom auto work / tuning / repairs ... Most will have a tire mounting and balancer and will not care about TPMS
 
As you said, they (big tire chain) changed the tires no problem. They did ask for a vehicle year/model, which I made up to avoid TPMS issues. Of course the year I made up had different size tires so the guy got really confused. That probably wasn't necessary.
 
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