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Tyre Pressure Monitoring System

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#1 ·
I have a 2016 Vitara SZ5 AllGrip.

How can I tell if the car has TPMS....?

There's no (obvious) instrument cluster menu option relating to TPMS.

Thanks.
 
#3 ·
MRmjay

I have the same car as you and you will have TPMS. There is a symbol on the dashboard at startup, it'll be in the manual somewhere. If there is a problem, the panal will ping, change to orange and you will see a graphic of the wheels and their tyre pressures. It won't clear until you rectify the tyre pressure.

Yesterday I had to replace on of my tyres due to a puncture :( - a screw was in the tread. The TPMS system alerted me to the fact that the tyre pressure on that one wheel was marginally lower than the rest, which prompted me to check.
 
#4 ·
That's what I said loops. I knew it'd be in the manual somewhere, but figured life is too short. Sure enough when the tyres were changed, panel turned orange, a ping and the warning came on. Reset after a couple of miles.
Similarly, got the orange panel, ping thingy recently telling me to sort oil out. It was due for a service a few days later so left it. The very helpful guys at Colin Appleyard told me the orange oil warning is a service indicator. The red oil warning is time to screech to a halt.
 
#5 ·
I did check the manual, but it only says that the TPMS warning light will come-up in the event of a tyre pressure loss - 'if equipped'.

There does not seem to be a way to know if the car is actually equipped with TPMS though - other then through the intentional deflation of a tyre....

I tend to check the pressures regularly so unlikely that I will see this warning light unless the car actually have a flat tyre.

I'll just assume the car does have it then...

Thanks for your answers.
 
#6 ·
looking oinline, I found this on the TyreSafe website...

"Since November 2014, all new passenger vehicles sold in the EU must be equipped with a tyre pressure monitoring system (TPMS)

TPMS has been fitted to cars for many years but recently the mandatory fitment and maintenance of such systems has come into force.

The process began with the introduction of legislation on 1 November 2012, whereby all new models of cars sold in the EU had to have a TPMS fitted. This was broadened out in November 2014 to include every new passenger vehicle being required to have a TPMS before being sold.

In the UK on 1 January 2015, legislation came into force stating that for these vehicles, an inoperative or faulty TPMS sensor would result in an MOT failure"
 
#7 ·
A quick rule of thumb is if you have rubber tyre stems, you don’t have TPMS.

Have a look at the manual to call up the settings menu and TPMS is on page two (of the settings not the manual). You can only access it when the car is parked and, in my case, in P.
 
#8 ·
A quick rule of thumb is if you have rubber tyre stems, you don’t have TPMS.

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my aftermarket ones are on rubber stems......only difference is the lock nut on the outside of the rim.