Newly bought car

JustBee

Just bought a car from a dealers and wasn't told before I arranged to pick the car up that they'd have to get a spare key cut and configure it in a couple of days as there wasn't one. Also drove the vehicle out and the tyre pressure light was on. I didn't know what that was till I sat down with the hand book when I got home to accustom myself to the car.

I'm so stupid, my gut instinct when they mentioned the spare key was to wait until it was available before I took the car. Now I know what the tyre pressure light is, I'm a bit upset to be honest.

Stubod

..you are probably over thinking things, just enjoy the car and collect the spare key when it's ready...

RobM99

Pump them up might be an answer

JustBee

I looked at the MOT history and it failed on both front fog lights not working and an advisory of a nail in one of the tyres. They put it in for MOT a day later and it passed. The car is coming up to it's 3rd year. When they prepped it this morning surely they would have seen that light on!

JustBee

RobM99 said:

Pump them up might be an answer

They only just prepped the car this morning, should I be doing that the minute I drive away! Maybe I'm expecting too much eh.

iwb100

Check the pressure on the tyres. Then if they are ok read your manual to learn how to clear the tyre pressure indicator. The indicator merely shows a loss in pressure of one tyre. If they fitted a new tyre and didn’t reset the pressure indicator then it will be on. It might not be an issue might be they just haven’t reset it. 

shiraz99

JustBee said:

Just bought a car from a dealers and wasn't told before I arranged to pick the car up that they'd have to get a spare key cut and configure it in a couple of days as there wasn't one. Also drove the vehicle out and the tyre pressure light was on. I didn't know what that was till I sat down with the hand book when I got home to accustom myself to the car.

I'm so stupid, my gut instinct when they mentioned the spare key was to wait until it was available before I took the car. Now I know what the tyre pressure light is, I'm a bit upset to be honest.

Why so upset. Simply pump the tyre to the correct pressure and reset the TPMS, no big thing. Neither is waiting a few days for a spare key.

shiraz99

iwb100 said:

Check the pressure on the tyres. Then if they are ok read your manual to learn how to clear the tyre pressure indicator. The indicator merely shows a loss in pressure of one tyre. If they fitted a new tyre and didn’t reset the pressure indicator then it will be on. It might not be an issue might be they just haven’t reset it. 

^This. They may well have simply fitted a new tyre or pumped up the tyres and forgot to reset the TPMS system. You're going to have to learn to do this for yourself anyway.

shiraz99

JustBee said:

I looked at the MOT history and it failed on both front fog lights not working and an advisory of a nail in one of the tyres. They put it in for MOT a day later and it passed. The car is coming up to it's 3rd year. When they prepped it this morning surely they would have seen that light on!

I don't see the issue here, seems completely above board to me, and that fact that it passed, as it should, sounds like they either had the tyre off to repair or replace, either way they simply forget to reset the TPMS afterwards. As I said, no big deal.

RobM99

How to reset the light is on youtube. 

Nearlyold

On our Hyundai there is no procedure in the handbook for manually resetting the TPMS - provided the low pressure issue has been sorted it just goes off on its own -  HOWEVER it does not go off immediately, you have to drive around a couple of miles before it goes out.