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Tyre Pressure

13K views 10 replies 6 participants last post by  Aztech  
#1 ·
Hi everyone , I’ve a 68 plate Mokka “Elite “ and over the weekend noticed that the ‘low tyre pressure’ light was on, three tyres it was 32psi but the other read 19, so a trip to the local filling station to top up, however, despite topping up with air to 32psi on the filling line, it only read 23psi.on the dashboard, something is wrong. Went up to 40psi on the filling line but it was reading well below this on the dashboard, any ideas please, cheers
 
#3 ·
Most filling station gauges are not calibrated and are rubbish, I would never trust them, buy yourself a good tyre pressure gauge and use that when you have pumped them up, I'm old school and have the manual gauge and not a digital one. You need to find out first what the actual pressure is in t he tyre.
Thanks for the reply and I did just that, the gauge on my new pressure gauge was showing high, so the filling station device was right, which like yourself I was very surprised, so all things point to the tyre
 
#4 ·
Hi Bri
Your Mokka will not show any changes in tyre pressure while the vehicle is stationary as the vehicle monitors the tyre pressure around once every minute at certain speeds. You can generally trust the gauge at garages far more than a cheap analogue compressor left in a car boot for months on end.
 
#7 ·
I have similar to OP - all the tyres measure 35 psi on my pressure guage, but on the cars TPM 3 tyres measure 34 psi but one says 37.
There don't seem to be any ill effects and I suspect that the TPM just isn't very accurate..
Do you need to buy a tool to reset them surely you can do it via the car's system menu ?