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Tyre Pressure Monitoring System - Which Type?

thhedk
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Hi,

I've just bought a Ford Fiesta 1,0 125 Titanium X.

It has Tyre pressure monitoring. The instruction book says, that before april 2014 the system worked by measuring the roll diameter via the ABS sensors. Car produced after april 2014 have the more expensive system, with sensors inside the wheel.

My car is produced in September so I thought it was the expensive system, but people tell me, that this can't be true, because the tyre valves are rubber!

What is right and wrong?

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    My 64 plate ST has the tyre pressure monitoring valve with the metal valves, my 63 plate ST had the old deflation detection system with rubber valves.

    Have you got the car yet?

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    My 64 plate ST has the tyre pressure monitoring valve with the metal valves, my 63 plate ST had the old deflation detection system with rubber valves.

    Have you got the car yet?

    Ok. Yes I have the car.

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    My 64 plate ST has the tyre pressure monitoring valve with the metal valves, my 63 plate ST had the old deflation detection system with rubber valves.

    Have you got the car yet?

    Can I see the difference?

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    Can I see the difference?

    Metal valve on new system

    33b084e572782a0a95e6d10cc7fc7cfd.jpg

    23f9f7f3b6eae7d29793db02fd62bdd2.jpg

    Old DDS system with rubber valve

    20e20c259bd2eb8a5c6f0154359dbfbe.jpg

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    Metal valve on new system

    Old DDS system with rubber valve

    Ok, I am pretty sure I have the old system then!

    Odd that the instruction book tells another story :(

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    Do you have the option in your menus for it ?

    I was slightly disappointed to discover my car didn't have this by a. Not in menu. B. Said less against it on etis :(

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    Do you have the option in your menus for it ?

    I was slightly disappointed to discover my car didn't have this by a. Not in menu. B. Said less against it on etis :(

    I only have an option where I can reset the measurement.

    Dos the valve type have options?

    I think it would be a waste of money to use the advanced type in a Fiesta with no features like seeing tyre tempetures and to read out the actual pressure, so I hope it is the old/simple type so I don't have to have this ekstra cost on my winther tyres.

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    I only have an option where I can reset the measurement.

    Dos the valve type have options?

    I think it would be a waste of money to use the advanced type in a Fiesta with no features like seeing tyre tempetures and to read out the actual pressure, so I hope it is the old/simple type so I don't have to have this ekstra cost on my winther tyres.

    http://www.thhe.dk/temp/valve.jpg (this is my valve)

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    So is this the main reason why newer cars have metal valves? When I ordered my ST the deflation detection wasn't an option, so I guess they were developing the new system at the time.

    How does the new system compare? If it measures the actual tyre pressure, I wonder how accurate it is and how it's affected by tyre heat, and how low the pressure has to be before it warns you.

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