Newly bought car

RichardD1970

Nearlyold said:

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.

Depends on the TPMS. My Ford has a system that monitors the relative speeds of the wheels etc and works out from that if a tyre is underinflated. This needs to be reset manually from the menu system. Some (my wife's Kia for example) have physical sensors (in the valves?) which will reset automatically after a bit of driving.

Flight3287462

Your mistake was not turning around straightaway and getting it pumped up, that way you have registered it with them there may be a potential puncture which they should fix or replace.

Mutton_Geoff

RobM99 said:

How to reset the light is on youtube. 

Anyone else like me who deliberately avoids You Tube instructions nowadays?

Paper manual .. "scroll to menu, click tyre pressure, click reset monitor"

You Tube ... "TYRE PRESSURE WARNING? Stick with me and I'll show you how to fix this ... blah blah ... my name's Tony The Tyre Guy .. click like ... click subscribe ... join our Patreons ..." 5 minutes later and you're still none the wiser. At least I use Brave and don't have adverts thrown in as well!

JustBee

It's fine, I sorted the tyre pressure light. Car's going back this week if I don't get a spare key from them. Manufacturers make every car with 2 keys and they should be sold as such. If they had the car for sale to buy why not make sure the spare key had already been ordered and in their hands ready. My bad for taking it but they'll still be getting it back.

JustBee

Flight3287462 said:

Your mistake was not turning around straightaway and getting it pumped up, that way you have registered it with them there may be a potential puncture which they should fix or replace.

This I realise. There were many other things I didn't do before I left, like check the whole car !!!!!!. Everything is now fine apart from no spare key.

JustBee

shiraz99 said:

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.

Yeah but was told today that a spare key takes 30 days once ordered from the salesman who sold me the car. No it doesn't. I get 30 days in which to take the car back and release myself from the deal....I lose that right if the spare key's gonna come after that 30 days.

Grumpy_chap

I don't think that "no second key" would be sufficient grounds to reject the car under consumer rights.

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Mutton_Geoff said:

RobM99 said:

How to reset the light is on youtube. 

Anyone else like me who deliberately avoids You Tube instructions nowadays?

Paper manual .. "scroll to menu, click tyre pressure, click reset monitor"

You Tube ... "TYRE PRESSURE WARNING? Stick with me and I'll show you how to fix this ... blah blah ... my name's Tony The Tyre Guy .. click like ... click subscribe ... join our Patreons ..." 5 minutes later and you're still none the wiser. At least I use Brave and don't have adverts thrown in as well!

Install "Sponsor Block" and enable the "off topic/filler" option.

Those videos go down to a couple of minutes with just the instructions.

shiraz99

JustBee said:

shiraz99 said:

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.

Yeah but was told today that a spare key takes 30 days once ordered from the salesman who sold me the car. No it doesn't. I get 30 days in which to take the car back and release myself from the deal....I lose that right if the spare key's gonna come after that 30 days.

No you don't, the 30 day period is on hold until the issue is resolved.

Ditzy_Mitzy

JustBee said:

It's fine, I sorted the tyre pressure light. Car's going back this week if I don't get a spare key from them. Manufacturers make every car with 2 keys and they should be sold as such. If they had the car for sale to buy why not make sure the spare key had already been ordered and in their hands ready. My bad for taking it but they'll still be getting it back.

Is it a BMW?  Takes a while to get spare keys for those; I think it's a similar situation for other German cars as the keys have to be sent from Germany.  I had to do it once when the immobiliser key for my old 3-Series fell to pieces.  

Anyway, the key and the tyre pressure business don't seem like particularly good reasons to want to get rid of the car.