Tyre pressure monitor
On the new Santa fe we bought it has a tyre monitor system, l was told by the sales manager to be very careful when adding air to the tyres, seemingly theirs glass bubble in the valve that's easy to break, the cost to replace is £200. Anyone had any problems with this type of system
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I am inclined to believe that statement to be rubbish but I'm happy to be educated on this point.
I had a Citroen with monitoring transmitters in the valves and found them to be quite robust however when you have tyres changed it is as well to remind the tyre fitter that you have them as they can damage them when the tyre is off.
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D Millar555,
Seemingly the manager had a one in after the gentleman's wife had inflated all four wheels herself at a garage, broke all four valves at a cost of nearly £800. I can believe it at the filling stations as the equipment is quiet hard to use dragging it around the car and trying to see the dial rather, cumbersome the ones l have used
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I have a Sorento, Santa Fe's very close cousin, and it also has TPMS. I have not heard anything about berthing careful about how you pump the tyre up and, as far as I am aware, there is nothing in the manual referring to this.
I use a Michelin foot pump and a Ring electric pump and have had a tyre changed with no adverse effects.
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I don't know how this system works, but not all TPMS uses a pressure/temp sensor in the tyre. The cheaper system uses the car's ABS to compare wheels speeds with each other, the one going faster is the one that needs pumping up (that's what's fitted to my Mercedes) and uses a normal, standard tyre valve.
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My CX5 used a system relying on the wheels rotation. It raised a generic alarm when one of the tyres were below pressure but didn't tell you which one.
The Sorento has a sensor in each tyre valve and you can read the individual pressures on the info screen. When you change a tyre you don't change the valve, it remains affixed to the wheel rim.
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