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Originally Posted by mr.fabulous
Visited the local Tires Plus yesterday for new rubber... and along the way decided to replace the tire pressure sensors as a preventive measure (car was built in July 2010 and I have no reason to believe the sensors were ever replaced along the way). This Tires Plus has universal sensors that get programmed to what vehicle manufacturer they're being installed on. And after several attempts, my car simply refused to recognize these. And so we put the factory sensors back in and all is well.
A friend's wife had the same experience with her E90.
And so OE BMW TPMS sensors only for these cars.
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Not necessarily. For my winter tire/wheel setup, I used TPMS sensors from Tire Rack which are not BMW factory sensors and they've been working fine for about 5 years.