was speaking to a college the other day and he has TPMs fitted o his hyundai i30. his snapped off last week and what he had to do was a bit of a nightmare. had to go to dealer to order 1, collect it, then take it to have the tyre fitted at ATS because it was a lease car and then back to dealer to have it calibrated, over 6 days to sort it out ad the valve cost 80 quid. i ordered the TPM as an extra on my fabia elegance, so what is the procedure if

A: you have to change a tyre, do i f to return to dealer to have system reset

B: cost of replacement valves

as i'm thinking i might not bother with this extra and might just cancel it being fitted

thanks

richard

As far as I know, Skoda don't use special valves. The speed of each wheel is monitored instead, via the abs sensor. If one wheel begins to travel faster than the others, perhaps for more than a few seconds to rule out tyre spin, then it would be a sign of a reduced circumfrance due to under inflation, hence an alert will be triggered

Edited 15 January, 201115 yr by Superbalicious

I think I asked this question a couple of weeks ago and it does use sensors on the car not valves on tyres. Use search and your find it

thanks for your replies. put my mind at rest. just wish it will turn up soon lol

As far as I know, Skoda don't use special valves. The speed of each wheel is monitored instead, via the abs sensor. If one wheel begins to travel faster than the others, perhaps for more than a few seconds to rule out tyre spin, then it would be a sign of a reduced circumfrance due to under inflation, hence an alert will be triggered

That's correct. It uses the ABS senors to monitor wheel speed.