[canadiantj]

I went this weekend to get some quotes for winter tires and rims and was told by three tire dealers that they will NOT sell or install winter wheels and tires for me without the TPMS sensor. They stated that they are liable if they knowingly disable a cars safety features and thus must put the sensors into each wheel. Has anyone else run into this? Any work arounds anybody can suggest? I am in BC, Canada by the way.

I was told the same thing here in Calgary. The tire shop did say that they cannot mount them to your car initally, but will sell them to you. After you install them, they will provide the courtesy winter/summer tire swap as per their policies. Spoke to Nissan parts and they said that they have no problems with Nissan folk running non tpms rims for the winter. Hurts nothing as " this is what we lived with prior to tpms anyway".

Moral of the story, just get them mounted, install yourself and ignore the light on the dash till the white stuff is gone.

 

[canadiantj]

I've noticed people bringing up the question about insurance and tpms. Does insurance really care if the light is on or not? Wouldn't that mean they would want all pre 07 vehicles to have them retrofitted? My insurance provider did not even ask if I had a tpms system in my altima. Anybody have an answer?