Dealer putting in too much PSI

[monkeyhanger]

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....?

It's been blown out of proportion. 

[jv]

Just a lot of hot air.

[mistac]

Its pretty tyring to read and if i am honest has left me a bit deflated 

[dubber36]

Out of curiosity, does the tyre pressure sticker differ dependent on the spec that the car was built to as well? Does having a sunroof or Dynaudio 'require' more pressure to support the extra weight?

I also think that the mechanics are under a lot of pressure to get the cars through the workshop quickly. 

[Sootchucker]

3 pages about a dealer putting the wrong pressure in a tyre.....we really are running out of things to say on the forum now aren't we 

[SRGTD]

3 pages about a dealer putting the wrong pressure in a tyre.....we really are running out of things to say on the forum now aren't we 

  If I found the dealer had put too much air in my tyres, I’d just adjust it; easily remedied.

[barrym381]

3 pages about a dealer putting the wrong pressure in a tyre.....we really are running out of things to say on the forum now aren't we 

  If I found the dealer had put too much air in my tyres, I’d just adjust it; easily remedied.

Do people really check the pressure before and after a visit to the dealer

[monkeyhanger]

3 pages about a dealer putting the wrong pressure in a tyre.....we really are running out of things to say on the forum now aren't we 

  If I found the dealer had put too much air in my tyres, I’d just adjust it; easily remedied.

Do people really check the pressure before and after a visit to the dealer

I check everything after a visit to the dealer - especially oil level after a service. They're supposed to top to the max, twice they've replaced oil with just enough to get oil beyond min on the district,. Lookers have chipped and scraped bodywork and said nowt on 2 separate occasions
 Lookers around Tyneside are sh!te!

[2007GTI]

it says 36 front and back unladen, best get to specsavers.

@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.

[kmpowell]

it says 36 front and back unladen, best get to specsavers

Best read my post properly. I can see it says 36, what you’re failing to grasp is only the front tyres fall outside of all tolerances. See option 2 for the reasons as to why.

For the purpose of clearing up your doubt, option 3 is the answer.