2015 Ford Mondeo Tyre Monitoring Systems

Scottie2
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edited July 2016 in Towcars & Towing #1

can anyone with tyre monitoring system on their car tell me what happens when a tyre change is due. I have heard that a replacement tyre valve cannot be installed onto the rim when fitting a new tyre as the tyre monitoring unit has to be changed at the same
time as it comes as a complete unit with the actual valve. On Mondeos 2015 model, I heard £50 each is the price . Any comments welcome please.

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  • EmilysDad
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    edited July 2016 #2

    There are two different flavours of TPMS. The cheaper/most common type uses the cars ABS to monitor each wheel's speed against each other, and when it detects a wheel going faster than the others tells you that you have a soft tyre ..... go & find it. The more expensive uses a temp/pressure sensor on the valve which talks to a box of electrickery on the car and can tell the pressure in any given wheel. When a tyre is changed, the valve stays put. If the valve is damaged, a new one needs coding to your car. 

  • Shoey43
    Shoey43 Forum Participant Posts: 11
    edited July 2016 #3

    I think it depends on who replaces the tyre. Just had a pair done. Kwikfit wanted an extra £100 to replace valves, local guy said 'no worries, I'll just be careful changing the tyres'. That he did and tyre pressures displaying correctly.  

  • EmilysDad
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    edited July 2016 #4

    IMHO that's just Kwikfit either trying it on or just ignorance of what to do. Batteries in the sensor will last 4 or 5 yrs and the sensors don't just break ..... unless the tyre fitter is clumsy. Plus Kwikfit is the last place I'd use.

  • Scottie2
    Scottie2 Forum Participant Posts: 226
    edited July 2016 #5

    Further to my post re Mondeo tyre monitoring...another query perhaps someone could comment on and that is , if I wanted to have normal valves installed, ie, have the sensors removed from the wheel rims , is this possible and can the dashboard warning be
    overridden .

     

  • EmilysDad
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    edited July 2016 #6

    Pass. I know it's possible on a Mercedes but no idea on your Ford.

  • madhouse4
    madhouse4 Forum Participant Posts: 129
    edited July 2016 #7

    Hi tyre pressure monitoring has to work for mot on your age of car, just double checked I was right in manual

  • richardandros
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    edited July 2016 #8

    I believe TPMS was made a compulsory requirement for all new vehicles first registered after Oct / Nov 2014.

  • Colin51
    Colin51 Forum Participant Posts: 18
    edited July 2016 #9

    Had a puncture repaired yesterday not on a Mondeo but no problem with the sensor, the only thing was it took a lot longer for the pressures to be displayed on the first drive with the repair done, and I would not want to drive without TPMS on the car as
    this was a early warning so the tyre could be repaire, plus after the weekend when a friends caravan was trashed after a blowout on their car on the motorwa.

  • Scottie2
    Scottie2 Forum Participant Posts: 226
    edited July 2016 #10

    Got 4 new tyres fitted and told fitter in advance that tyre sensors were fitted on Mondeo. He said that Fords were the most likely to cause a problem than any other make of vehicle. He was extremely careful at removing old and fitting new and on completion I went into computor number 2 and then "Settings" and selected "tyre monitoring"and then press and hold down button for few seconds. The low pressure warning light then goes out and the system confirmed all reset.

  • JohnM20
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    edited July 2016 #11

    I believe TPMS was made a compulsory requirement for all new vehicles first registered after Oct / Nov 2014.

    Write your comments here...My Mondeo was new in April 2015 and doesn't have TPMS. It is referred to in the handbook as an optional extra.

  • Scottie2
    Scottie2 Forum Participant Posts: 226
    edited July 2016 #12

    Hi JohnM20.. My Mondeo, although a Zetec Econotec TDCI 150, came with sat-nav , front and rear parking sensors and TPMS via the vehicle computor. 

     

  • JohnM20
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    edited July 2016 #13

    Hi JohnM20.. My Mondeo, although a Zetec Econotec TDCI 150, came with sat-nav , front and rear parking sensors and TPMS via the vehicle computor. 

     

    Write your comments here...Hi Scottie2 - a strange one this. My Titanium hasn't got TPMS but just looked at the 2015 issue of the Mondeo online specification details. I can find no reference whatsoever to TPMS, even under the wheels and tyres section which
    is where I would have expected it to be. As I wrote in my earlier post, the handbook makes reference to it but only for "for vehicles fitted with TPMS".

  • JohnM20
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    edited July 2016 #14

    Oooops.  I've just gone into the car's computer and lurking there is the tyre pressure monitor system. Apart from this in the computer there is absolutely nothing externally on the car to suggest the system exist on the vehicle. The tyre valves look exactly
    the same as 'normal'. Should they appear different?

  • JudenSteve
    JudenSteve Forum Participant Posts: 169
    edited July 2016 #15

    can anyone with tyre monitoring system on their car tell me what happens when a tyre change is due. I have heard that a replacement tyre valve cannot be installed onto the rim when fitting a new tyre as the tyre monitoring unit has to be changed at the same
    time as it comes as a complete unit with the actual valve. On Mondeos 2015 model, I heard £50 each is the price . Any comments welcome please.

    We have a Passat with tpms fitted and just before we went to Italy last month had 2 new tyres fitted but the valves were not changed and the tyre fitter would have said about it if they needed to be surely. It did take about half hour for the pressures on
    the 2 new tyres to show up after though.

  • EmilysDad
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    edited July 2016 #16

    Read my reply John .... there's also tyre deflation mmonitoring ie uses the ABS which is  often referred to as TPMS too

  • JohnM20
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    edited July 2016 #17

    Thanks, MM. So what you are saying is that on the more common, cheaper systems it is just a 'normal' valve on the wheel and so nothing visual to show that the sytem exists on the car? Am I right with this?

  • EmilysDad
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    edited July 2016 #18

    Thanks, MM. So what you are saying is that on the more common, cheaper systems it is just a 'normal' valve on the wheel and so nothing visual to show that the sytem exists on the car? Am I right with this?

    ..correct  Laughing its what is fitted to my car too.

     

     

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