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Barry Bean - 19 Apr 2007 19:24 GMT

My 2006 Liberty has a tire pressure monitoring system. Do I need to do
anything different when rotating tires?

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Kate - 19 Apr 2007 23:12 GMT

Do a full rotation, including the spare.
When you have the pressure checked, check the spare too.
If it gets low it can give you a low tire indicator light that will drive
you nuts if you forget it.

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My 2006 Liberty has a tire pressure monitoring system. Do I need to do
anything different when rotating tires?

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Barry Bean - 20 Apr 2007 20:18 GMT

But how will the computer know whict tire is the right front after I
rotate?

> Do a full rotation, including the spare.
> When you have the pressure checked, check the spare too.
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> My 2006 Liberty has a tire pressure monitoring system. Do I need to do
> anything different when rotating tires?

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Mike Romain - 20 Apr 2007 20:26 GMT

Someone else posted here the other day that they read their owners
manual and reprogrammed or retrained the computer when they rotated.

Maybe you use a magnet or something?

I don't have your owners manual here to tell you for sure.

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> But how will the computer know whict tire is the right front after I
> rotate?
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>> My 2006 Liberty has a tire pressure monitoring system. Do I need to do
>> anything different when rotating tires?

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Barry Bean - 20 Apr 2007 21:06 GMT

Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:462913db$0$18184
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> Someone else posted here the other day that they read their owners
> manual and reprogrammed or retrained the computer when they rotated.
>
> Maybe you use a magnet or something?
>
> I don't have your owners manual here to tell you for sure.

I missed that post. I'll recheck the manual, but I didn't see anything
about the procedure under "rotate tires" or "Tire Pressure Monitoring
System"

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Mike Romain - 20 Apr 2007 20:31 GMT

Here is the link that was posted about that the other day:

http://www.wjjeeps.com/tpms.htm

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Barry Bean - 20 Apr 2007 21:09 GMT

Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:462914e0$0$18184
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> Here is the link that was posted about that the other day:
>
> http://www.wjjeeps.com/tpms.htm

Thanks.

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nrs - 20 Apr 2007 20:41 GMT

> But how will the computer know whict tire is the right front after I
> rotate?
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The sensor is on the valve stems. The sure solution to your problem
is to have the tires dismounted and remounted on different wheels,
leaving the wheels in the original location. It may cost more but it
will work.

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XS11E - 21 Apr 2007 01:40 GMT

>> But how will the computer know whict tire is the right front
>> after I rotate?

> The sensor is on the valve stems. The sure solution to your
> problem is to have the tires dismounted and remounted on different
> wheels, leaving the wheels in the original location. It may cost
> more but it will work.

No need to go to the trouble, according to the article referenced:

"The system identifies the location of the four mounted tires by way of
a simple initial training process. The EVIC is put into a programming
mode while a magnet is momentarily placed, in sequence, on each of the
valve stems. A signal is sent back that identifies the LF/RF/LR/RR tire
locations as well as the spare (if equipped). This is an easy process
that can be done by anyone, and is explained in detail below."

Here's the link again so you can see the retraining process:

http://www.wjjeeps.com/tpms.htm#DESCRIPTION

It shouldn't take more than a couple of minutes if you do your own
rotation and the tire store/dealer should include that when doing a
rotation.

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philthy - 22 Apr 2007 16:26 GMT

no!
but rotating the tires that turn wear, out faster then tires the just go
straight thats why i don't rotate, just keep the balanced i get 20k more
out of rear tires that way

> My 2006 Liberty has a tire pressure monitoring system. Do I need to do
> anything different when rotating tires?
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Kate - 23 Apr 2007 13:24 GMT

no!
but rotating the tires that turn wear, out faster then tires the just go
straight thats why i don't rotate, just keep the balanced i get 20k more
out of rear tires that way

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I tried that on my Cobra. I had larger/wider tires in the back than in the
front so they couldn't be rotated.
The front tires wore out nearly twice as fast as the rear.
I was running on Z rated tires that were pretty sticky, (Nitto 555s) but I
will NEVER do that again. I personally get much better results from
rotating. Not to mention more even tire wear when driving a vehicle with
fairly aggressive tread such as my Jeep or the F-250. Rotating helps reduce
uneven tire wear and gives you the opportunity to check them for balance.

Kate
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