Was driving back to Melbourne on a fairly smooth dirt road when the tyre deflation warning symbol turned up. Got out of the car - nothing seemed amiss, so drove at a slightly more relaxed speed for 20K to a service station. No obvious tyre deflation.
Checked all my tyres which were hot but within 2 PSI of each other and were around 34-35 PSI (hot). Seemed pointless to add pressure to a hot tyre or 4. So I simply pressed the "reset" for tyre deflation warning and drive back to Melbourne with no further issues.
I haven't even checked all tyre pressures when cold yet.
Since the tyre monitor works by sensing differences in rotational speed for each wheel, I wondered what might have been the cause? All I can think of is 1) some slight difference in rotational speeds of one of the wheels because of dirt roads - although this hasn't happened (on worse dirt roads than this one) before in 20K. 2) faulty sensor in one of the wheels?
Any thoughts?
I may just ignore it until it happens again - hopefully still under warranty ......
Checked all my tyres which were hot but within 2 PSI of each other and were around 34-35 PSI (hot). Seemed pointless to add pressure to a hot tyre or 4. So I simply pressed the "reset" for tyre deflation warning and drive back to Melbourne with no further issues.
I haven't even checked all tyre pressures when cold yet.
Since the tyre monitor works by sensing differences in rotational speed for each wheel, I wondered what might have been the cause? All I can think of is 1) some slight difference in rotational speeds of one of the wheels because of dirt roads - although this hasn't happened (on worse dirt roads than this one) before in 20K. 2) faulty sensor in one of the wheels?
Any thoughts?
I may just ignore it until it happens again - hopefully still under warranty ......