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TPMS question
- Thread starter steinbo
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StrangeUsername
SOCOM: Confrontation FTW
- Location
- South Florida
- Car(s)
- 2008 VW GTI MkV
I think it takes a while (a few miles) before the car realizes that you have no tire pressure.
kevin@dbcperformance
www.eemilitia.com
- Location
- EAST COAST DIVISION
give it some time :wink:
Just have a friend vag com the system to disable the TPMS and you won't have to worry about the light on the screen.
Kevin:thumbsup:
snowridermt
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- bozeman, MT
it will tell you right away. you positive you have them. is your valve stem metal or rubber?
Dredknut
DSG Fart Fanatic
- Location
- Its not important...
- Car(s)
- 2007 GTI
lol I chuckled a little when I read this... I just picture a car running on flat tires, rims destroyed... "Well my dash light didn't come on for a few miles, I didn't know I didn't have tire pressure." Just the wording I guess :smile:
on.your.left
Ready to race!
- Location
- Kanata, ON, Canada
I'm wondering about this, too....I mounted my winters (no TPMS) 2 weeks ago (~700km) and I've been expecting the warning to go off, but it hasn't. I assumed I had TPMS in my OE Denvers....maybe I don't?
drwzer
Ready to race!
- Location
- ottawa, Canada
Canadian vehicles, if that's what you have, don't have tpms I was told. I have a US model and the light comes on when I switched to winter tires. More annoying is that blinks occasionally...need vagcom.
nhbubba
CEL free until 48,398 mi
- Location
- Seacoast NH
No joke: I wonder if dealers are seeing any warranty claims along those lines.
Build an idiot proof system and the world will just come up with a bigger idiot!
Dredknut
DSG Fart Fanatic
- Location
- Its not important...
- Car(s)
- 2007 GTI
I wasn't referring to anything warranty related, I was more referring to on.you.left's wording, I just found it funny. (it was early in the morn)
I doubt there have been any warranty issues with TPMS such as this. If there was, we would have seen them on these forums by now I am sure.
nhbubba
CEL free until 48,398 mi
- Location
- Seacoast NH
See, now I was picturing an ultra-bird-brained type. I can see it now "What do you mean I was running on flat tires?! This car is supposed to have a gizzmo that tells me when my tires are flat, and it didn't! I want new wheels and tires under warranty because the system did not work!"
I doubt anyone interested in cars enough to register or post on a forum like this would have the guts to report making a warranty claim like that!
I doubt anyone interested in cars enough to register or post on a forum like this would have the guts to report making a warranty claim like that!
snowridermt
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- bozeman, MT
if your valve stem on your original tires is metal then you have tpms if not then you don't
they are metal. But I think the car did not originally come with the Huffs, so maybe it doesn't have it. It was owned by a sales ladie at the local VW dealer, and she ran snow tires with no TPMS, so she probably had it VAG'd off...
Do you still have your spare in your trunk? Since it is a radio frequency that is being sent it may be picking up your spare if you still have it.
The same thing happened to me when I put on my LM reps. I drove all the way to San Diego from LA without throwing a TPMS light. I still got them when I got to San Diego though.
Look at your valve stem and make sure you have the right stems thought. Maybe you do have them?
The same thing happened to me when I put on my LM reps. I drove all the way to San Diego from LA without throwing a TPMS light. I still got them when I got to San Diego though.
Look at your valve stem and make sure you have the right stems thought. Maybe you do have them?