« Reply #54 on: 26 July 2009, 11:38 »
The only time I had my flat tyre thingy start beeping at me was when my car decided that it had a deflating tyre whilst I was in the outside lane of a motorway overtaking a string of middle lane hoggers. I was on my way to the airport, four people in the car and a boot full of luggage, so naturally thought ''Goodness me, I've now got to quickly pull over and unload six tons of stuff out of the boot, get filthy dirty and try and remember how to use the widow maker jack, hang on a minute......the car is driving normally.....''
So having instantly slowed right down and carefully moved lanes ready to stop on the hard shoulder, I then decided to proceed carefully as the next junction was only a mile or so away. Once I got there I pulled over and had a good look at all of the tyres (I'd checked the pressures before I set off) and all appeared normal. So I re-set the tyre thingy and carefully drove around a while. Nothing.
What I reckon happened was that the sensors decided that my suitcases were a flat tyre and thus triggered a bogus alarm. Better safe than sorry I guess.
So the moral of the story is that the thing only costs £35 and it may or may not work. On the mk5 VW put the tyre thingy as a standard feature and the decent computer as a £50 extra. On the mk6 it's the other way round minus £15. Bloody daft and both may as well be standard features.
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