kkritsilas
Well-Known Member
if your nephew's Tahoe has the same bolt pattern as the Suburban, just move the tires and rims from the Suburban to his Tahoe. He will get the low tire pressure warning, but he can just ignore that. He just has to check his tire pressures once a week with a tire pressure gauge (the way things used to be done prior to tire pressure monitoring systems came into being). When the Suburban tires wear out, he can replace the old Tahoe tires with new ones, and get the tire pressure monitoring system working again. No need to pay for all the mounting and dismounting of tires. but he will need to get a decent tire pressure gauge, and take the time to check tire pressures. Up here in Calgary, people do that for winter tires; people buy a set of plain steel rims and mount the winter tires on them, then just change the wheels over for winter. Come spring, they put the summer tires back on (with the tire pressure sensors) back on. It isn't just the cost of the tire pressure sensors for the winter tire rims, it is also the $150-$200 for the dealer to re-cailbrate the tire pressure sensors twice a year, as the tire pressure monitoring system can only accomodate one set of tire pressure sensors, so if you had tire pressure sensors in the winter wheels, when you changed over, you would need a re-cailbration. Then, come sprin time, and you put your summer wheels back on, you would need to re-cailbrate again. It used to be that you could re-cailbrate the tire pressure system on your own, but that got changed a few years back, and that can only be done at a tire shop or dealer, and most tire shops won't make the investment to re-calibrate the tire pressure monitoring system.