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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: mike. on 27 October 2010, 19:20
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My car does not have the optional TPMS but after visiting THIS SITE (http://www.vwwatercooled.org.au/f112/how-retrofit-indirect-tire-pressure-monitoring-5-minutes-7k6-50164.html) it now has. :smiley:
You need someone with VCDS to activate it and it also needs VCDS to reset it as the button by the gearstick isn't available.
Don't know why it wasn't standard as it was on my MK5.
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You need someone with VCDS to activate it and it also needs VCDS to reset it as the button by the gearstick isn't available.
Interesting link Mike.
My reset button is in the glovebox I don't think they've had it by the gearstick for a long time. :wink:
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Cheers Keith, I assumed it was there as that's where it was on my MK5 :smiley:
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You can also buy the button/switch as a retrofit.
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You can also buy the button/switch as a retrofit.
Do you know where from? :wink:
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You can also buy the button/switch as a retrofit.
Do you know where from? :wink:
Local dealer or TPS.
Pushbutton switch for tyre pressure warning centre console black/white
1k0 927 121 C REH - sub £15
or for glove box switch
1K0 927 121 B REH
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Do you know where from? :wink:
Local dealer or TPS.
Pushbutton switch for tyre pressure warning centre console black/white
1k0 927 121 C REH - sub £15
or for glove box switch
1K0 927 121 B REH
1K0 927 121 B REH is £15.45 but what about the wiring loom?
Are you from Stoke stokeballoon? :wink:
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Dealer activated mine today! :smiley:
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You can get the wiring and switch as a retrofit from that place in iirc germany that do alot of the retrofit kits. I can remember seeing it and reading a thread about it on here.
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Dealer activated mine today! :smiley:
How? Did you buy it as an option with the car?
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Dealer activated mine today! :smiley:
How? Did you buy it as an option with the car?
If you goto the link in the first post all will become clear :smiley:
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The switch is there but it is not connected.
I went back this morning to show/tell them!
So I don't know what the dealer was talking about!
No wonder it was FOC! :huh:
I give up.
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Dealer activated mine today! :smiley:
How? Did you buy it as an option with the car?
If you goto the link in the first post all will become clear :smiley:
Dearest Geoff
Maybe to you it is clear :wink: the technically minded folk have no problems with such things.
To me it is as clear as mud!!! I have no technical mind at all. Soz :grin:
Kind regards
Amanda
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Before i get shot down by tech guys this is in laymans terms and not strickly acurate.
TPMS works by reading the signal from the anti-lock brake sensors.
The sensors are next to something that looks a little like a cog on a bike wheel/chain (think of a bicycle wheel with a cog on without the chain)
As the cog turns with the cars wheel the ABS sensor sees a gap or a tooth on the cog and it generates a voltage signal that changes depending if it sees a gap or a tooth. This changing voltage tell the computer how fast each wheel is turning (as each wheel has a cog and a sensor).
What the TPMS does is see one wheel is constantly measuring different to the others because its circumference is different due to the tyre been flat (one tyre is flat so the wheel is a smaller circle so middle of circle were the cog is, is different speed to the other 3 wheels) so the speed of the cog has changed compared to the other 3 on the other wheels. This change is more or less what triggers the warning light from TPMS.
Every GTI has the ABS sensors, the TPMS warning light and the software in the computer just not the reset button and wiring for the reset button. What Am1W has done is turn on the software.
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Before i get shot down by tech guys this is in laymans terms and not strickly acurate.
TPMS works by reading the signal from the anti-lock brake sensors.
Yes you are partially correct. VW use two systems, Indirect TPMS and Direct TPMS. :wink:
Volkswagen Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) (http://www.my-gti.com/321/volkswagen-tyre-pressure-monitoring-system-tpms)
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Before i get shot down by tech guys this is in laymans terms and not strickly acurate.
TPMS works by reading the signal from the anti-lock brake sensors.
Yes you are partially correct. VW use two systems, Indirect TPMS and Direct TPMS. :wink:
Volkswagen Tyre Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) (http://www.my-gti.com/321/volkswagen-tyre-pressure-monitoring-system-tpms)
Im not a yank so Direct is not applicable. :tongue:
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I don't believe this,
I enabled the system a few days ago and today on the way home the light comes on.
I immediately thought that it was something I had done wrong in enabling it.
I checked the tyres and the nearside rear one was at 1.2 BAR.
It turns out I have a nail in the tyre about half an inch in on the tread.
The next question is, is it repairable??
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Prob/maybe depending on the angle and how near the sidewall it is on the inside of the tire.
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http://www.etyres.co.uk/etyres-press-media/repairable-area-gauge.htm
Have a go with this and you can work out if it's repairable
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Thanks for that Hartside, useful info.. :smiley:
According to that chart the tyre is not repairable :cry:
That's two tyres in six months, must look into tyre insurance at this rate..