Wow, what a frickin nightmare! The TPMS were too long by about 1/4 in and hit the front coil overs (pedders 52mm) called the place i bought em from and was told to take them to the local discount tire and they should have shorter TPMS.
Well they dont make shorter so they relocated the sensor to the front valve and put in a shorter plug in the rear hole where the TPMS was at when shipped.....i will snap a few pics tomorrow. I just got the car home now.
Anyway i was informed that the long sensors in the rear wheels would not be a problem, just the fronts had to be modded. In my haste to get to discount before they closed i threw one front and one rear in my jeep and thought they were both the fronts (diff offsets front and rear). Got home and saw it and pretty much figured this is how it would be.
Anyway, i made some mods to the front pass side coil over with the air grinder...dont freak out Pete. I took off maybe less than 1/4 in of material off the strut so the tpms would clear. the drivers side wheel was good since it had the TPMS relocated to inside the tire. i got the clearance...i also have a degree in civil engineering and looked at the area i clearanced from the pedders coil over and knew it would not be an issue...sorry again Pete. I will post photos tomorrow. the fronts were good
I mounted the rears, one tpms relocated and the other had the long tpms due to my earlier screw up of taking one front wheel and one rear. Anyway, going off the infor that the rears would not be a factor with the long sensors. I mounted them and spun the wheels while off the ground on jacks..No issues.
I lowered the car off the floor jacks and cranked it up. Had the dash display set so i could monitor the tire pressures in case Murphy reared his ugly head. Drove around the block a couple time and pressures remained good. So off i went to the main street in Wichita Falls. took a nice easy 90deg right turn by the mall at about 20mph and the car died....gave me a display about "low power cutoff" or something like that. Tried to start it up and fired up for a second and died....same warning about low power shutoff. Tried again, same. Called usaa for a tow truck and got out of the car and noticed the right rear wheel was flat.....then i began to wonder if the computer was trying to be smarter than me and killed the motor due to the flat tire. the vehicle info menu still registered good pressure in all tires??????
Any way while waiting for the tow, my Mustang buddies showed up and helped me push it off the street and into the mall parking lot.
Went home and threw the OEM rear tires in the trusty jeep CJ and changed the rear wheels out and moved the bad tire out of range(the TPMS had been broken off on something? need to look tomorrow. With the oem wheels on the rear, the motor fired up and drove it home and just got it there 20 min ago.
Will take the other wheels with the long sensors and get Discount tire to relocate them i guess.