Dose anyone do it afterwards on Octavia mk2 and how?

AFAIK

There are two types of tpms ...

1) Direct

2) In Direct

Direct will require you to have pressure monitoring sensors in each wheel and a controller to which individual sensors send the information ....big hassle to retro -fit..

Indirect tyre pressure monitoring can be activated if you have the ESPbrake module in ABS brakes ... it will not detect slow punctures but a big loss in pressure and will light up the tpms warning light on the dash.....however the only glitch is that to reset it you need a laptop with vcds and cable !!

HTH !

Waste of time, don't bother.

Also hth.

+1

A complete & utter waste of time and money, although I believe that it's going to be a legal requirement in the EU for all new cars sometime in the near future.

Indirect tyre pressure monitoring can be activated if you have the ESPbrake module in ABS brakes ... it will not detect slow punctures but a big loss in pressure and will light up the tpms warning light on the dash.....however the only glitch is that to reset it you need a laptop with vcds and cable !!

HTH !

Holding down the TPM button resets the system.

<br />Holding down the TPM button resets the system.<br />

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No.........

I'm talkin about retro-fitting...

Basically cars without tpms

indirect tpms is fiddling with stuff already present in the cars system ...

i turn on TPM on my octavia via vag com and instaled reset button and evertything is working but the switch in not recognized in vag com when i press it.

I cant find the rihgt pin to pine up on abs controler.

It says pin 35 but i think that isn't the right one.

AFAIK

There are two types of tpms ...

1) Direct

2) In Direct

Direct will require you to have pressure monitoring sensors in each wheel and a controller to which individual sensors send the information ....big hassle to retro -fit..

Indirect tyre pressure monitoring can be activated if you have the ESPbrake module in ABS brakes ... it will not detect slow punctures but a big loss in pressure and will light up the tpms warning light on the dash.....however the only glitch is that to reset it you need a laptop with vcds and cable !!

HTH !

My TPM does detect slow punctures by the way, I have proved it twice. By slow I mean within the two week period that I check the tyre pressure.

My TPM does detect slow punctures by the way, I have proved it twice. By slow I mean within the two week period that I check the tyre pressure.

Will not detect slow punctures as in ---- loss of 1-4 psi over an elongated period of time .... .......

However a sudden drop of 5-10 psi will light up the warning light..

and also the indirect will only show a warning after 10 km or more of driving as it uses the ABS brakes to measure the diameter of the wheel !

Assuming you are talking about the indirect tpms (mk6)

and also the indirect will only show a warning after 10 km or more of driving as it uses the ABS brakes to measure the diameter of the wheel !

Assuming you are talking about the indirect tpms (mk6)

Ah ok, that would go some way to explaining my earlier statement then.

Hit a massive pothole the other week, massive crack, flattened my tyre instantly, inch-long split in the side wall. TPM didn't bat an eyelid.

Pulled over as soon as, swapped the wheel out for the spare, and a couple of seconds after pulling off again the TPM beeps on, thankyouverymuch.

Will not detect slow punctures as in ---- loss of 1-4 psi over an elongated period of time .... .......

However a sudden drop of 5-10 psi will light up the warning light..

and also the indirect will only show a warning after 10 km or more of driving as it uses the ABS brakes to measure the diameter of the wheel !

Assuming you are talking about the indirect tpms (mk6)

I have indirect TPM (standard on vRS) and it is fair to say that the slower the puncture the more time the system will take to report it. That makes sense to me because it takes a long time for the pressure to go down too. As you say rapid deflations are alarmed very quickly whereas extreme cases such as blow-outs are usually sufficiently evident in their own right.

Works well enough for me.

I had the TPM warning come on a couple of weeks ago. Thought, great, flat tyre. Stopped and visually checked the tyres and couldn't see any difference in any of them. Finished my journey home (only a few miles) and visually still looked fine. Let the tyres cool for a couple of hours and checked all the pressures, rear passenger was 5psi down. pumped it up to correct pressure, reset TPM and no bother since. I was quite impressed that it spotted such a small difference in one tyre. Checked at weekend, still right pressure so no slow leak. must have been low from dealer.

the indirect TPM which is standard on the vrs, doesn't actually monitor the pressure but rather it uses the abs sensor to monitor the rolling circumference of the wheel so i have found it will detect small changes

<br />the indirect TPM which is standard on the vrs, doesn't actually monitor the pressure but rather it uses the abs sensor to monitor the rolling circumference of the wheel so i have found it will detect small changes<br />

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If indirect tpms detected small pressure changes then direct tpms would be absolutely useless....also a small drop in pressure will have only a little or no change in the diameter of the wheel and as a result won't be detected by the ABS ......

Indirect will only detect if the pressure is lower by around 10-15% or more.!

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If indirect tpms detected small pressure changes then direct tpms would be absolutely useless....also a small drop in pressure will have only a little or no change in the diameter of the wheel and as a result won't be detected by the ABS ......

Indirect will only detect if the pressure is lower by around 10-15% or more.!

So 10-15% of 30-32 psi is 3-4 psi, seems like a fairly small change to me and this is detected by mine, anyway my point originally was just to point out how the indirect system works

don't u think 4 psi is a considerable drop of pressure ??:wonder:

But can I retrofit the reset button and ware can I get on that fits in car

AFAIK There are two types of tpms ... 1) Direct 2) In Direct Direct will require you to have pressure monitoring sensors in each wheel and a controller to which individual sensors send the information ....big hassle to retro -fit.. Indirect tyre pressure monitoring can be activated if you have the ESPbrake module in ABS brakes ... it will not detect slow punctures but a big loss in pressure and will light up the tpms warning light on the dash.....however the only glitch is that to reset it you need a laptop with vcds and cable !! HTH !

So you can turn TPM on and it will work without the reset button as long as you have VCDS to perform the reset?

Hello jhrast13 and welcome along