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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: mcmaddy on 24 October 2018, 17:55
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Have had the tyre pressure warning come up twice in the last four days. First time was on the Tees fly over which has quite nasty gaps which make for what feels a bumpy ride. Stopped and checked tyres and could see no sign of damage and then later that night checked pressures and ask were ok. Put it down to the jolt on the suspension.
Just had the same thing tonight but on a different stretch of road but I'm sure I hit a little pot hole which then caused the pressure to ping up. Have just checked tyres and can't see anything untoward. Could it be the tyres causing this as the fronts are on about 2.7mm tread?? Have scanned the car with vcds and no errors at all with the abs system either. Anyone else had this when tyres get low on tread??
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When was the last time you set the sensors? Could be the pressures have dropped a bit with the cold weather making them close to pinging up anyway? Just a thought....
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The only times mine has pinged is when I've swapped to winter wheels and back again.
Presumably it is telling you which wheel(s) is the cause of the issue? Have you checked tyre pressures and reset? Are all wheel balance weights still intact?
I had a tyre repaired on my Mk5 after driving over a nail when the car was only a few days old. However the repaired tyre would very slowly lose a few PSI every month or so. Is there any chance you might have a slow puncture?
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When it went off did it tell you what tyre was low or just a general check all of them as it does tell you the tyre that is losing pressure if there is a problem.
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All tyres are checked weekly and system reset accordingly. It just shows loss of pressure detected but on the golf it doesn't tell you which tyre as it points from the abs system. Just wondering if it's because of the front tyres being nearly at end of life. Haven't had any issues at all in nearly two years of ownership.
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Didn't have this issue when my tyres got low on tread.
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I'll check them again and reset and see if it happens.
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All tyres are checked weekly and system reset accordingly. It just shows loss of pressure detected but on the golf it doesn't tell you which tyre as it points from the abs system. Just wondering if it's because of the front tyres being nearly at end of life. Haven't had any issues at all in nearly two years of ownership.
Mine told me the exact tyre when I was unlucky to have a puncture on my third day of ownership. Came up on the active info display as loss of pressure rear right tyre. Perhaps this was something that was changed on the 7.5.
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All tyres are checked weekly and system reset accordingly. It just shows loss of pressure detected but on the golf it doesn't tell you which tyre as it points from the abs system. Just wondering if it's because of the front tyres being nearly at end of life. Haven't had any issues at all in nearly two years of ownership.
Mine told me the exact tyre when I was unlucky to have a puncture on my third day of ownership. Came up on the active info display as loss of pressure rear right tyre. Perhaps this was something that was changed on the 7.5.
Mine is a 2016 mk7 and also tells me which tyre
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Interesting Patagonian. Mines a December 2016 and all its thrown up is loss of pressure detected. Got same message twice too.
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All tyres are checked weekly and system reset accordingly. It just shows loss of pressure detected but on the golf it doesn't tell you which tyre as it points from the abs system. Just wondering if it's because of the front tyres being nearly at end of life. Haven't had any issues at all in nearly two years of ownership.
Yes it does, all mk7's do as they all use the ABS sensors to monitor pressure, if it just said loss of pressure detected then chances are it was the weather air pressure that set it off. Otherwise it would tell you for example Left Front and show a picture with the tyre highlighted on the screen.
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I've had two of these ping in four days and neither time did it tell me which tyre so maybe not all mk7s are the same. Probably the same as some tell you when the battery is low in your key fob and some don't. Mine appears to be the latter.
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Mine did it the other day - I'd been away for a few days and when I came back its pinging at me about tyre pressures - not specific to a wheel.
Checked them all and they were all slightly down by 2-3 PSI all round.
That's probably air temp change - last time I did them it was 25C. When it pinged it was 10C and the tyres were cold too.
I've seen that before though, once when I drove into a summer hailstorm and the temp dropped rapidly.
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If all tyres are below what was set originally then the system wouldn't pick anything up if all 4 had reduced by the same amount?
Rechecked mine this morning and all four were below the 36psi that was set on Saturday but not one was any different to another. Set again so will see what happens. Just an aside couldn't get in the car this morning as the battery had finally given up on my fob and it didn't give any warning at all yesterday on the dash.
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The ABS sensors on these MQB platform at more sensitive that previous versions.
Whe you press the TPMS button/screen to reste, it can take up to 1hr of driving for the ECU to gather enough data about the special "harmonics" of each wheel...not just the rotation, but teh side to side wobble, etc....
Basically even if you remove the wheel & replace you need to reset, unless you replace in exact position on hub with bolts in exact holes..
One of the VW self study guide goes into detail on the systems..
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I’ve found with my mk7’s they like to throw a flat tyre warning just as I settle into the first bit of decent speed on a road run, usually on the first bit of motorway or dual carriageway where there’s nowhere to pull over. Without fail, every time it’s because there’s luggage in the boot despite pressures being reset along with the in car menu being reset too.
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To be fair I haven't had any issues at all until this past week. I'm just putting it down to the original tyres being so worn.
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Just an update, had the warning ping up again this morning driving to work but it's actually said which wheel (front right in this case). I can't see any offending nail, screw etc so thinking it's the freezing temperatures this morning (0.5°c in my neck of the woods).
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I had the warning come on twice on my first Mk7.5, didn't say which tyre and happened on the M1 in torrential rain so had to stop and check them all.... :huh:
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Have a mahoosive screw through the inner tread block at its thickest part so bit the bullet and ordered four Michelin ps 4. Delivered on Wednesday hopefully fitted later this week. Just need to keep blowing the tyre up every morning and drive carefully :whistle:
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Mine is a 2016 mk7 Gti and that also tells me which tyre is low. :whistle: