OmnexPete

Ah but, it's not my car It's a company car. We already have the tyres, just need rims. I'd probably whack some trims on them anyway. Where can I find alloys a little more than £26 a pop?!

Steel wheels seem to be available pretty cheaply. Any reason not to fit steel rims? For example; http://www.oponeo.co.uk/steel-wheel/steger-st8247#19362231

Likewise Gerrycan and neiln. I picked up a screw in a tyre not long after I got the car. The system alerted me to check the pressure of one tyre, which I did and found it low. A couple of days later the same thing. So I took it into the tyre place and they found the screw and fixed the tyre. How many of us *HONESTLY* check tyre pressures even weekly?

Thank you! That explains why a; the stems look normal, b; it doesn't seem to care about the rim location on the car. That makes my life a lot easier, and cheaper. I guess, TPMS like that is slightly better than nothing.

I've a 2015 Octavia 2.0l 4x4 Elegance diesel estate. Best company car I've had to date. I said the same about the one before. They just keep getting better and better! My other two engineers are also now converted to Skoda Presently it's got a set of 17" alloys on and has TPMS. In my garage I've a set of 16" winter tyres, off rims. I used these on my last Octavia (2012 hatchback), local place used to swap them on and off the rims for a crate of Stella I was all set to buy a set of 16" rims to put these on the current car, BUT then I thought... TPMS... How does it work on my car? I can't find anything of any use in the book. The dealer was only interested in selling me a set of their winter wheels and tyres. The valve stems look perfectly normal rubbery things, whereas my mum's Toyota has very obvious valve stems with metal collars which are the TPMS sensors. I'm wondering if my car uses the ABS sensors to measure the circumference and doesn't actually have sensors in the rims? It can tell you which tyre needs checked. The book tells you to swap wheels round to even out tyre wear. How on earth would that work with sensors in the rims? I have an alloy spare wheel and the only mention of TPMS when changing a flat is to check the pressure and run the reset procedure via the Infotainment touch screen. Yours, Confused of Fife.

Morning all, from the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland. I got pointed this way by a good mate who's a long term Skoda enthusiast. 1st March I picked up a new company car, Octavia Elegance 2.0 TDI CR 140. It's a replacement for a Ford Focus 1.6 TDCi Zetec Climate which died before Christmas, having reached the heady heights of 80,000 miles and required a new engine! Bent con rods tends to be terminal. Thus far with the Skoda, I've covered 3000 miles. It pulls well, returns 67mpg on a motorway run (where the best the Ford managed was 35), comfy, boot is big enough for all my tools with room to spare. To say I'm happy is an understatement. Here's the car