[Monte Carlo Man]

The wheel sensors are vehicle specific and if the wheel sensor does not have the chrome metal stem coming out of it, you cannot interchange one with the other.

You need to go back to your Chevrolet dealer parts department and have the serviceman / woman look up the vin number and see which one it is.

I believe the kit to exchange one sensor was $50 and many sensors are broke trying to get the old one out and put the new one in.

Putting the wheel sensors in the spare tire does nothing for the system and you would have to drill 4 holes into the rim to mount the 4 sensors and you would still have to buy the 4 kits to install them.

Yes - you can shut them off if you have a computer - TECH II, but it voids the warranty because that is a very important part of the body control module / Power Train Control Module, and when you mess with the programs that runs it - and if you later have a problem, the tech will have to reinstall a new program in the body control module and you will pay to have it installed. PLUS there is the safety factor.

Unless you understand how the body control module and the Power Train Control Module works and how many times a minute it monitors all the systems and what everything does, it would be incomprehensible for me to try to explain it to you.

It would be like me trying to explain to you how the upstream and downstream oxygen sensors works and how the problem with the Toyota is not with the actual gas pedal but is in the computer program that runs everything. In a General Motors car or truck when you let off the gas pedal - the computer actually tells the fuel system to give it more gasoline and make the fuel mixture run rich for a second or two to cool down the catalytic converter. Only when you allow 1 error for every 10 lines of code, how long is it before the error becomes a major catastrophe? Or that Toyota knew that they had a problem and covered it up or that their only problem was that they moved their production lines to the USA and now they are all screwed up - because the AMericans were lazy bums that did not care.

Now you ask - where does all this go? Well the air pressure tire monitors in your wheels are not a General Motors Design. The Corvettes used them for many years with no problems. The ones in your wheels are actually a Chrysler design and we all know where Dodge is right now!
Why is the wheel sensors in your wheels a Dodge Design? Because it was cheaper to produce then the GM design.

When you mix and match components sooner or later you will have problems.

And by the way, the Body Control Module / Power Train Control Modules knows which corner of the vehicle the wheel sensor is on and when you rotate the tires, it looses it's position and the sensor goes off ..
So there is no way for you to put the sensors in the spare tire because it knows where they are at!