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The phrase 'RTFM', or 'read the flipping manual' comes to mind. If there is a way of doing it, it'll be in there.
However, I can't imagine it was switched off when the car was first bought. It is an in-built safety feature. Running with it switched off could well put you in breach of insurance conditions.
In fact, if your car has TPMS fitted, running the car with it faulty or switched off is an MOT failure.
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Many thanks, but don't you think I have looked in the book already?? As for your thoughts on this, I have owned the car from new and for 20 months. Until 2 weeks ago, when my friend enabled the system, I had never had a warning of low tyre pressure!! Within 2 weeks of it being enabled, I started getting warnings. Not sure how your brain works, but mine screams, " too much of a coincidence". I rest my case, but thanks anyway.
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And if sarcasm is your only form of communication, go get re educated, it isn't attractive!!
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TPMS has been a mandatory requirement on all new cars sold in the EU since 2014 thus your car is included in this period. It will have been active since you bought your car. If you disabled it and the unthinkable happened you would be prosecuted and find yourself uninsurred.
I would suggest you get a VW garage to test the system and repair it as necessary rather than ignoring important warnings. In the past 10 years I have had 2 TPMS warnings on a total of 4 cars fitted with the system and this has enabled me to get the tyres repaired for £10 approx rather than running it flat and needing a new tyre at probably nearer £70. Or perhaps I would have been killed in a fireball after a blowout, who knows. Whatever, I am more than happy with the TPMs system.
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If you are getting alarms from the system, then you are getting them for a reason.
The system was fitted from new, therefore it MUST be operational to pass the MOT next year when it is 3 years old next year.
By the sound of it, the system had not been initialised properly. If, when you check the tyre pressures (check from cold), they are all correct, then you basically re-initialise the system. It will then ONLY alarm if there is a problem. If it continually alarms when there is NOT a problem, then the system is faulty, and, as the car is less than 3 years old, it will be a warranty visit to VW.
Maybe that's sarcasm. Maybe it's actually caring slightly for the poor other people on the road, who don't want you careering out of control due to a blowout, and killing them, because you decided you didn't like the TPMS system, and didn't know about the flat tyre which the system would have told you about.
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Hi, "you" are not being sarcastic in the slightest!! It was purely the tone of the other reader's reply, ie, had I checked the car's manual etc.?
Firstly, I have never had this system on any previous car. Secondly, I am sure you can now understand the fact that it never warned me in 20 months, until my mate pressed the set button in the glove box. Rightly or wrongly, anybody never having had this system before, would surely presume it had been disabled, if no notification had ever been received, until the button was pressed for the first time?
Anyway, I am now suitably educated on this subject, and as my Polo is due for a service very shortly, I shall get it thoroughly checked out!!
I really appreciate your time, and hope you now have a better understanding of my query.
Regards.
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The TPMS warnings will go when you eliminate the reasons why they appear - presumably you've checked the tyre pressures - so the next thing to check is whether the TPMS is now set for full load pressure monitoring.
Edited by RT on 02/09/2016 at 22:35
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The Tpms system on this car is a passive system that works via the Abs sensor system.It cannot be deactivated by the driver functions.As previously mentioned ,Tpms is mandatory on cars used on/after Jan 2012.The only way it can be switched off is through the diagnostic system.
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The Tpms system on this car is a passive system that works via the Abs sensor system.It cannot be deactivated by the driver functions.As previously mentioned ,Tpms is mandatory on cars used on/after Jan 2012.The only way it can be switched off is through the diagnostic system.
The mandatory implementation date was later than that - 1st November 2012 for new Type Approvals and 1st November 2014 for existing Type Approvals.
So it's quite possible the OP's car was before 1st November 2014.
From 1st January 2015, faulty TPMS is a MoT test fail.
Edited by RT on 03/09/2016 at 06:50
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Anyone else as confused as i about who was supposed to have been sarcastic, did a post slip in and then vanish.
Other than that, personally i'm very unlikely to own a car modern enough to have any of this guff, and after well over 3 million miles i have a shrewd idea whether the vehicle i'm driving has a tyre low on pressure and thats a lot more than 4 to worry about, and i should think a heck of a lot of experienced drivers know how their cars handle and similarly would know when something isn't right.
However if the system was fitted, regardless of it being mandatory at a certain start date, i'd rather have it working than not.
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It was my first reply, with 'RTFM' that was viewed as sarcastic - or more sarcastic than usual, knowing me.
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and i should think a heck of a lot of experienced drivers know how their cars handle and similarly would know when something isn't right.
Unfortunately, GB, that's where you'd be wrong.
The French Sécurité Routière, a road safety organization, estimates that 9% of all road accidents involving fatalities are attributable to tire under-inflation, and the German DEKRA, a product safety organization, estimated that 41% of accidents with physical injuries are linked to tire problems.
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and i should think a heck of a lot of experienced drivers know how their cars handle and similarly would know when something isn't right.
Unfortunately, GB, that's where you'd be wrong.
The French Sécurité Routière, a road safety organization, estimates that 9% of all road accidents involving fatalities are attributable to tire under-inflation, and the German DEKRA, a product safety organization, estimated that 41% of accidents with physical injuries are linked to tire problems.
Like a number of contributors here, GB seems to have "mechanical empathy" but in the big scheme of things we're very much the minority these days - the youngsters remember the 3-4 things in yellow under the bonnet just long enough to pass their test and then have no further involvement in the maintenance of the car.
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Yup. The number of times I've witnessed a car with an obvious (both visibly and audibly) flat tyre is extraordinary. If I'm on foot and it's in town and possible (due to the person waiting at lights, etc.) then I'll always tap on the window and inform them of it. Always to their complete shock.
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