GR86 Can you run without TPMS ?

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AlexGR86

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Hi All,

Not had a car with TPMS sensors before.
I am looking for a cheap winter set up and wondering if I can do without TPMS for the winter months.
Can I run wheel rims without sensors, or will the car constantly throw up error messages etc. ?

Many thanks,

Alex
 
I'm not sure if it's different for no TPMS, but when my pressures dropped in the mornings because it was cold, you get a beep and the TPMS warning shows a message on the dash on the left hand info screen. I could clear it by pressing the back button on the steering wheel, but it was annoying because it kept coming back (even after the tyres warmed and the pressure came back up). Not sure if there might be a different message if it can't find any TMPS data at all, in which case you'll probably just see the yellow light at the bottom.
 
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Just bought a Winter wheel & tyre package from Wheelbase for my ND MX5. They threw the TPMS in for free & I got 12 months interest free too!
 
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You might find you'll lose the left hand display of the dash to an error message , as Conscript says when pressure is low it flags up a message, I'd imagine it would do the same and keep it up until it sees the TPMS again.
 
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Gibbo78 said:
Good effort, so how did you manage to get the TPMS's for free out of interest?
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I just asked how much they were & they said if I bought the wheel & tyre package I was interested in they would throw them in for free (normally £100)
Cant recommend Wheelbase enough, the wheels I bought didn't actually fit on the car because it was running 20mm bolt on spacers when I bought it & the wheels needed pockets machining as the OE wheels had. After a slight panic I called Wheelbase & they just asked me to bring them back & they would machine the required pockets. Fortunately they are only 35 miles away, so after a week I picked them up & they are now on the car. Amazingly there was no extra charge!!
 

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Pretty sure you can disable the tpms, i managed to do it while trying to reset a fault once
 
Not an MOT requirement so tester won't care.

Edit: I'm out of date. This would now be an MOT fail.
 
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From the MoT Inspection Manual;

"Tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS)
The inspection of the tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS) is for M1 vehicles first used on or after 1 January 2012.

The TPMS warning lamp (see diagram 3) can operate in many ways depending on the vehicle type. You must only reject vehicles if it’s clear that the lamp indicates a system malfunction and not simply indicating that one or more of the tyre pressures is low."

If the light is on because no sensors are fitted would this not count as a system malfunction?
 
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