Bentley with a TPMS problem

The office took a call from a new customer who was having problems with their Bentley, the TPMS warning light would not go off even after they had reset it.

We turned up at the customers address to look at the problem, first thing to do is check that the tyre pressures are correct. The pressure where all over the place. Corrected this and then started to scan the TPMS valves. On a Bentley the valves are electronic and send a signal to the cars ECU (the brain) indicating the tyre pressures and if the valves have a fault. We carry a special tool that can read the signal that the valves send out to check that they are working. All the valves came back as working A-OK with good battery life still left.

As we had reset all the pressures in the tyres we did the TPMS reset procedure again and asked the customer to take the car out for a test drive to see if the fault was still in place.

Customer came back and the car was still showing a problem with the TPMS valves.

As we had established that the pressures in the tyres are correct and that the valves where working correctly the fault is with the car not being able to read the information that the valves are transmitting.

Unfortunately this is not a problem we can correct, the customer would have to take the car into Bentley to see why the car is not reading the signal from the valve. At least he could turn up at the Bentley garage armed with a diagnosis and thus save time (and money) on having the same check being done again.

You don't win them all, but at least we had eliminated the first obvious fault for the customer.

If you have a problem with your TPMS system showing an error call Hometyre on 0800 783 93 10 and we will come to you.