Ford Fiesta Tyres and TPMS replacement.

I was called out to a job in Tangmere, the owner of this Ford Fiesta had a punctured tyre, but had then driven the car for around a mile to get it home, totally destroying the tyre.

Since he was about to sell the car, he decided to change all four tyres. I arrived at the job and saw the shredded tyre, the problem was that because he had driven on it, he had actually damaged the TPMS (Tyre Pressure Monitoring Sensor) cracking the main housing. Since the car was on a 2015 plate, it has to have fully functioning TPMS sensors to pass an MOT.

Luckily we at Hometyre carry complete sets of replacement TPMS sensors along with a diagnostic tool that can scan the data off of the old sensor and replicate that data onto a new sensor.

I removed the old sensor and removed what was left of the old tyre, I then programmed the new sensor and fitted it to the wheel rim, before fitting a new tyre, inflating it and balancing it. It was then fitted back on the car, and i moved onto the other tyres. Once they had all be replaced and the wheels put back on the car, the nuts were then all torqued to the correct settings.

I then took the car for a test drive to ensure that the TPMS sensor light had disappeared off of the dash.

Once everything was OK, I then completed a report, took a payment using our onboard card reader and emailed the invoice through to the customer.