A few months ago, the tip of my tire valve on my right front tire cracked off randomly when i unscrewed the cap to put air in. It is impossible to add air now, and thankfully it has retained the air that was in it.

I was getting an oil change yesterday, and the guy told me that the valve is actually the entire pressure monitoring system and will cost me like $150 to replace...

Is true or can i just replace the valve stem on it?


i actually just came across this

http://www.justforjeeps.com/tiprmose.html

looks like the guy was right but it looks significantly cheaper than he said thankfully.

Looks like you found it. Yep the TPM is thereon 08 KK's I think, I read they changed them. Now if you keep the OEM wheels that would be the best option to avoid the light being on. If you go w other wheels, I think you will have to get used to light anyway. Unless someone has a solution for that. In that case please share (Remove light ect.).

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08 Jeep KK Blue. Currently Stock.

Same thing happened to me. Luckily I had new rims/tires just waiting to be mount and balanced and installed. I bought a new sensor, which definitely cost more then that one, and its just been sitting here not getting installed in my factory rims.

As far as the light, well that's easy.
Just take apart your dash to pull the cluster and then open it up as well. Then on the backside of where the light shines through you can just cover up or block the hole that the led is in.

they where put into my after market rims and works

a guy at Firestone told me that you could put the original sensors in a pvc tube with caps on the ends. he didn't say a word about actually drilling and mounting one or putting pressure to it or anything like that, but he said you could just stick it under your seat and it would keep your light off. my light is on cuz my originals are in the garage but the light doesn't bother me at all! i did have a cracked one that set the alarm off and i had to get air about once a week, O'Reilly's quoted me about 65 dollars but the tire would have to be dismounted to install...

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awsumk
2008 Metallic Black Liberty
Sky-Slider roof
2" Daystar lift
Boyd Coddington 16 X 8's
Firestone Destination 265/70/R16's
Magnaflow Exhaust

i was gonna do the same thing with the pvc pipe. you would definitely have to have a valve stem or some other way of putting pressure in it. then i was thinking pvc pipe pry wouldnt be good pressurized and if you used metal someone would think its a pipe bomb or something. random vehicle checks on a military base would be interesting to say the least so i decided to just cover up the light. i would have swapped them but they wouldnt work in the steelies. now im to lazy and cheap to have the sensors swapped over from my stockers to MOABs.

All... figured I would add my 2 cents on this one...

I just turned in a 2008 Dodge Nitro... Same Effing issue. 3 of the 4 broke while we had the Nitro. All of which was not covered under warranty.

Dealer wants about $80 per TPMS and $80 in labor. Bought ours on ebay for $45 shipped and had my friends shop install them for $20.


One additional point to note... We did lose air pressure in every tire that failed. Like stated above there is no way to get air in the tire... or is there???


What I did was take some vacuum tube (small diameter - have to check actual size...) and make thin slices of it with a razor knife. Then take your vacuum line donut and fit it around the broken Tire Valve. Basically taking the place of the missing threaded valve... Turn your wheel so that the tire valve is at the 12:00 position.

Then using a compressor with at least 60 PSI, fill the valve as you would normally. It is a little tricky but it does work. The rubber donut will act as a seal to allow the compressor to fill the leaking tire.