Have to disagree with you there. Dealers are in business to make money, and normally, for any non-warranty work, they charge one-hour. Dealers also are not responsible for aftermarket add on items, including wheels and tires.
If your tires came with rubber stems, it would be easy to figure out the problem right away, but they do offer metal stems, and at that point, they would have to determine if these were the sensors or just metal stems.
I guess the dealer might have asked, if you had installed the sensors before giving the job to someone to diagnose, but then they stand the chance of insulting the customer's intelligence.
Why not blame the supplier of the wheels? They should have warned you that there were sensors required or the system would display a warning message.
Yes, to stop the warnings, you have to install the sensors from the original tires.
If you went to a Doctor, and his/her diagnosis was you are healthy and can't find anything wrong, the Doctor charges you for the office visit.
If you call in a TV repairman (are there TV repairman anymore?), and he finds the TV unplugged, he would charge you, same if you took it to the shop. So, why should a dealer do some diagnosis for free?
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