Help! Changed front tire now lights on...
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Originally Posted by zakattak20' post='555879' date='Apr 4 2008, 02:26 AM
yes its a 245/35/18 but on both sides....so would you think getting of course the matching tire and an alignment for a start?
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Originally Posted by zakattak20' post='555153' date='Apr 2 2008, 09:30 PM
can you anyone please help? just on what is causing this or what to do? thanks again
It's true that different manufacturers could have slightly different finished dimensions. A four pound PSI difference between your OEM tires will change the tires circumference as well. Also, with the staggered setups you don't have exactly the same circumference either.
Conventional wisdom says to put the same tires on the same axles, not because a slight difference in tire size but because of handling, braking and wet weather characteristics.
The purists here will insist on the same tires on all four corners, and I am one of them, but my life would be a lot simpler if I wasn't that way.
Reset the TPM and see if it accepts the setting.
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