Category: Wheels & Tires
Price: $1
Private or Vendor Listing: Private Listing
Part fits (you may select multiples): R52
Location (Region): Midwestern
Item Condition: Used

Looking for used TPM sensors for a 2008 R52. I kept the wheels from my 2011 R57 and the sensors are not compatible. Don't really want to spend $250 on them.

 

sending you a pm

 

I’ll PM, too!

 

Are you sure it has tpms? I know with 1st gens minis they dont. They use wheel speed sensors to detect a flat.

 

Yes. it was the end of 2008, very rare to have it.

 

James Norton=13px , 03-22-2020 11:18 PM"Are you sure it has tpms? I know with 1st gens minis they dont. They use wheel speed sensors to detect a flat"

Mine Is an 04 and has tpms...

 

They run off the abs sensor before that for the TPMS. No TPMS inboard on each wheel or a system that responds with it, unless someone had the sensor on MINI wheels from another newer MINI and threw them on.

 

Are you sure ?
I had new tires put on and I clearly saw tpms sensors in the wheels..I also put my friends xlites off his r56 which dont have tpms in them and my car threw the light for them . I could not turn it off or reset in in anyway , once we put my rpFAKE1's back on the light was off once I reset it again..
it also came on once this winter and my psi in them dropped and I filled them back up and it went off.
I was on the market for different rims and tires but the tpms had stopped me from doing so as they are expensive. I was hoping there was an aftermarket option available .

 

100% Gen 1 no TPMS inboard tire sensor, unless you are the very late model R52s
I think people swap wheels from newer MINIs to older and just leave them in their when they get new tires, Then it does nothing. On early ~7/2008 R56s is when it started, so very early R56 dont have them either, they use the wheel speed sensor.

 

Mine is an 04 and has this same reset procedure but I have the dual gauge on the steering wheel and a navigation unit so my tpms warning light in on them .
I'm kinda confused now as mine is for sure an 04 as I ran the vin but I'm positive it has tpms

 

You do have tpms. It uses the wheel speed sensors, just like every other first gen that isn't apparently an edge case R52 from 2008.

 

You have a TPMS, it reads the wheel speed sensors. The TPMS ~2008+ has a unit the reads the inboard sensors on the wheel stem mounted on the wheel.

 

so I can just throw on new rims and tires and no light ? I must not have reset it correctly when I put my buddies rims on..and my rims must have had a tpms from another vehicle they must have been on.. that sure would be awesome as i need summer tires and would like to get different rins then too by selling my old ones.. if i dont need tpms and just tire n rim I will sell my current ones dirt cheap to fund the new set.
if I do need tpms what are the cheapest ones available because it wont be worth it to remove my old ones .

 

No sensors in the wheels for Gen 1, except very late R52’s apparently. They use the wheel speed sensors as posted. Set all tires to the proper inflation and reset the monitor. If a wheel gets low from a leak the diameter will be smaller and will spin faster than the others. The wheel speed sensor detects this difference and throws the light.

Unfortunately, it will also not throw a light if all of the wheels deflate at the same rate and there’s no difference in rotational speed, like if a car is stored for a long time and all of the tires are under inflated at about the same pressure.

 

So I just bought a 2008 R52 and I bought a set of oz racing wheels I'm going to put on it. The car was built in march of 08. So I'm confused. Do I have sensors in the wheels or is it part of the speed sensor.

 

So look at the oem wheel you have on it , does it have a rubber valve stem or a all metal valve stem on it? Looks like 9/2007+ production for the late R52s. So if yes on the metal stem then you will need these: https://www.ecstuning.com/b-huf-part...36236798726kt/

 

Ok. I'm not in possession of the car right now. So I'll have to wait unless I can see it in one of the pictures I have.

 

Ok, let me know