Dealer putting in too much PSI

[kmpowell]

@kmpowell, what does my signature say, 18s, and of course I checked my door sticker, and I know it says 36PSI unladen, you really think I would come on here moaning about the correct PSI, if I didn't KNOW the exact mmanufacturers unladen PSI for my car??? Of course different sizes and variants are different.

Hence I know it is wrong and I am surprised VW have even bothered to do them, and I don't need snide patronising twots telling me to check my door sticker.

@monkeyhanger, you are right 40-42 is too high.

Ok, I can see now that the dealer putting a psi in above the recommended front ladened weight is enough to make the most reasonable person "angry". This is totally unacceptable...

So what shall we all recommend you do?

1. Complain to the dealer and get some sort of £compensation, how about free servicing for life due to this monumental cock-up that could endanger you and everybody that gets in your car, and everybody who might be driving by your when you are driving?
2. We all get together, hunt down the dealer principle, burn down the dealership whilst he's tied to his desk, all because he/they didn't ring you up and ask how ladened your car is when you drive it?
3. Take a few psi out to the levels you want/need (as per the handbook suggest you do regular and something you would normally do when picking the car up from service, not a month later), breath, realise there are far bigger things in life to get "angry" about, and stop acting like a petulant child?

Lots of love, your "snide patronising twot"
xxx

ps. please do continue to use more capitalised words in your responses so we all KNOW you're angry and serious.
pps.

The backs are fine, it's just the front's that are 1psi over. Hardly crime of the century.

[Watts]

That's from my old car!

[kmpowell]

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That's from my old car!

Yup, I went back and found your post from where somebody queried (not complained/moaned/angry) PSI's on a 7.5. At the time it was believed PSI's had risen, but your picture post (from a 2015 PP IIRC) showed PSI's had remained constant through 7 and 7.5.

[Watts]

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That's from my old car!

Yup, I went back and found your post from where somebody queried (not complained/moaned/angry) PSI's on a 7.5. At the time it was believed PSI's had risen, but your picture post (from a 2015 PP IIRC) showed PSI's had remained constant through 7 and 7.5.

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[mcmaddy]

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That's from my old car!

Yup, I went back and found your post from where somebody queried (not complained/moaned/angry) PSI's on a 7.5. At the time it was believed PSI's had risen, but your picture post (from a 2015 PP IIRC) showed PSI's had remained constant through 7 and 7.5.

that's just it though they havent. My 2016 GTi pp on standard 18s had 36psi all round. A guy at work got a lease deal on a GTi pp in early 2017 and his pressure were different to mine. VW upped the pressures in the run up to wltp emmisions. My friend got a 7.5 GTi pp and his tyres are 41psi. None of those are consistant pressures.

[clarky92]

I started at 41psi on my 19” Prets now down to 36 and I cannot tell a difference in ride quality or mpg

[kmpowell]

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That's from my old car!

Yup, I went back and found your post from where somebody queried (not complained/moaned/angry) PSI's on a 7.5. At the time it was believed PSI's had risen, but your picture post (from a 2015 PP IIRC) showed PSI's had remained constant through 7 and 7.5.

that's just it though they havent. My 2016 GTi pp on standard 18s had 36psi all round. A guy at work got a lease deal on a GTi pp in early 2017 and his pressure were different to mine. VW upped the pressures in the run up to wltp emmisions. My friend got a 7.5 GTi pp and his tyres are 41psi. None of those are consistant pressures.

From memory I think the 18’s have gone up 2psi, but 19’s have remained the same.

[Phil245]

Blimey, I wasn't really sure if I wanted to get involved in this thread as it has become a bit unfriendly.........

But I was just thinking to myself that if your gauge is about 5% out and the dealers is about 5% out,  that would easily explain a 4 psi difference....?

Obviously we all want our tyre pressures correct, but how accurate are gauges....?

[mcmaddy]

Blimey, I wasn't really sure if I wanted to get involved in this thread as it has become a bit unfriendly.........

But I was just thinking to myself that if your gauge is about 5% out and the dealers is about 5% out,  that would easily explain a 4 psi difference....?

Obviously we all want our tyre pressures correct, but how accurate are gauges....?

depends what gauge you have, not all are accurate and I'd hazard a guess that the yts trainee at the dealer wouldn't really care either 

[mcmaddy]

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That's from my old car!

Yup, I went back and found your post from where somebody queried (not complained/moaned/angry) PSI's on a 7.5. At the time it was believed PSI's had risen, but your picture post (from a 2015 PP IIRC) showed PSI's had remained constant through 7 and 7.5.

that's just it though they havent. My 2016 GTi pp on standard 18s had 36psi all round. A guy at work got a lease deal on a GTi pp in early 2017 and his pressure were different to mine. VW upped the pressures in the run up to wltp emmisions. My friend got a 7.5 GTi pp and his tyres are 41psi. None of those are consistant pressures.

From memory I think the 18’s have gone up 2psi, but 19’s have remained the same.

18s went from 36 to 40/41 and then back to 36. Maybe they pull the numbers out of a hat at the factory 🤣🤣