no. just getting sensors for the new rims. TPMS has been mandated by the DOT for its second model year now. You can hate or talk down the system all you want, but you already have put yourself in enough hassle by not following through and taking care of the rims and tires properly the first time. Now, you have to drive around annoyed to find someone who is willing to turn off the TPMS for you. The dealership most likely wont out of liability issues.

 

As has been stated a couple of times already, TPMS is mandated by LAW on all vehicles after 2007. Fords poor implementation on the F150 was just an afterthought to get it legal. I seriously doubt you will find a dealer that will disable the system for you, it would be the same thing as asking them to disable the seat belt warnings. Your tire/wheel shop should of warned you, and mounted the sensors on the new wheels for you. I would be mad at them, this ones not on Ford.

 

Off topic, but the crown vic owners manual tells you how to disable the seatbelt chime.

 

There is a reason for the system, it saves lives !! It was required by law. It will let you know when you have a low tire, so you can get it fixxed. I hope your life is worth more than the cost of dismounting the tires !!! If you have a blowout on the highway, you could kill yourself and others and destroy your truck !!

 

"i didnt know i had it till i changed to aftermarket rims"

you didn't notice the little orange icon that looks like a tire with a flat light up along with all the other warning lights when you turn on your key.

If you do not want the light to be light up then take your dash apart and take out the bulb or put a piece of black tape over the icon.

You would be better off going back to the place that put the tires on and talking to the shop manager letting them know that the worker did not transfer the TPMS to the new rims and tires. They may fix it for you free.

 

TPMS was mandated for many reasons. Saftey- Crashes caused by improper tire care. 2- Fuel economy. You know how many thousands of gallons of gas are wasted with improper inflated tires? I highly doubt anyone will turn the system off for you. I believe, not 100% sure, but if the system is disabled your Cruise Control will not work. The are really easy to take out. What you will need to do is have the tire broke down 180% from the valve stem. You sensor will be connected to a band across from the valve stem. To put them on your new wheels you will have to go back to ford to buy new bands, which are a hell of alot better. Break one side of the tire down and pop off the sensor. If you bought the wheels and tires from a dealer I would go back and have them fix the problem.

 

X2 on taking it back and talking to the shop manager.

my .02 on the rest of the thread.....

Seat belts are required by law....
Speeding is illegal....
Tint can't exceed X-Percentage....
It's illegal to drive after two beers.......
You must come to a COMPLETE stop at a stop sign.....
You must signal 200 Ft before making a turn.....


There are tons of LAWS I could find for each and everyone of you that you break on a regular basis, why are you busting this guys ***** because he doesn't want an idiot light for tire pressure... Myself I can FEEL if I have a tire that is any more than 2 lbs under inflated, and visually see if a tire is a lil low, I don't need no freakin light to tell me I need to check my pressures........

I have my seat belt chimer disabled on my 06.... Are you going to bust my ***** for that?


C'mon guys....

 

Seatbelts are mandated by law too, did your chevy advertise it came with seatbelts? Did it advertise that it comes with an EGR system which is also mandated by law? How about catalytic converters? There are hundreds of laws about vehicles and only a couple of which you would be interested in seeing on the sales brochure. Don't be angry at ford because you failed to do the proper research and read the sales brochure before you bought the car...

My experience with other Big O locations has been fantastic. Take it back and let them know what happened. They will probably be willing to help you make everything right again.

 

You and others on her may be able to tell when the tire is a few LBS low but that doest mean everyone can.
Here is an example for you I saw yesterday. I was at a stop light and the car in the next intersection had the passenger side front tire very low almost flat and the guy driving it didn't know or care that it was low and it was a upper scale care not some hoopty that the driver may have been trying to make do with what he had. This was in Washington DC so it was a low speed so it would be less of a safety issue but if he was on I295 it would be different.

Now take this into consideration you are on a long drive Whit changing road conditions. Your tire gets a slow leak and you don't know it until the light comes on, The light will let you know there is a problem before it is a safety issue. With the changing road conditions you might not have know the tire is getting low.

There are a few times when disabling the seatbelt chime can be wanted. a farmer that is working on his farm and not driving on a public street is one. Can you give a good reason why someone would want to disable the low tire pressure sensor?

 

In my experience of swapping out 3 clusters in my 2005 STX, the only bulbs that can be replaced easily are the gauge illumination lights. The tiny icon lamps are within the circuit board; I'll assume the circuit board can be removed, and then the "lead" could be cut to disable that lamp.

This is most likely one of those items Ford can "flash" for you to disable that feature. In my quest to disprove the myth of swapping out clusters on our 2004 to 2008 trucks, I found that a replacement cluster would work just fine; folks had been believing the myth that a 2004 to 2008 truck would not start with a replaced cluster unless Ford flashed it first. Simply not true. However, they do flash "features" and mileage into the cluster, and here is an example of where this flashing apparently comes to play. Vehicles without the low tire pressure feature would have this disabled from the clusters flash memory as an example, but the rest of the cluster gauges/features would work.

Problem is, most dealerships do not have the unit needed to perform this flash ability; it's expensive (I was told about $15,000.00 to 18,000.00). Your dealership will most likey want your cluster to send off to have it flashed; my local dealer would not even offer me this; they would only sell me a cluster already flashed, and take my old one as a "core".

So, should you decide to go the route of having your cluster flashed to remove the feature (and disable the lamp), you may find it expensive, and inconvenient to do. Good luck, and keep us posted. Your other two options would be to install the sensors into your new rim/tire combo (best bet), or to locate a cluster just like yours now, but without the low tire feature flashed in its memory (more difficult, and your mileage would not match unless it was flashed).
I found a site that will flash the mileage for $150.00, but thats all they flash, they don't have the additional software needed to flash features.