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Tyre Fairy???

J

Justinitus

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Northern Ireland
Weird....

Went for a lovely roof-down drive around the Fermanagh lakes yesterday morning (fiance was working... :thumbsup: ) and on the return leg, my tyre pressure warning light came on. :cry: Stopped, checked the tyres and couldn't really see or feel any problem but as a precaution drove the 5miles or so home like a nun.

So I got out my digital tyre gauge and sure enough all tyres were spot on except the rear left, which was reading 21psi. Puncture.

So this morning I got in the car and the TPW light had gone out. Hmm. So I went around to the petrol station to put some air in that tyre and what do you know.... its reading 33psi on the garage airline. So I went home and got out my digital gauge and..... its reading 33 on that also.

Self inflating tyre or tyre fairy???? Weird..... :tumbleweed:
 
fire-n-ice said:
You filled it while you were sleepwalking maybe? :idunno:
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Hehe... I'm still hedging my bets on the tyre fairy as last night I was 45 miles away in the Tyrone mountains at my fiances place....! I guess I could sleepwalk back home, but without my satnav no way... I'm useless at finding my way :lol:

Still puzzles me.... but all seems fine now. Happy Xmas Fire-n-Ice!
 
Merry Christmas to you Justin! And by the way, you're Irish - all you need to do is get a little sauced up, you'd find your way for certain then :lol: !! :poke:
 
Hehe that really made me chuckle.... amazing the number of stumblers you see making their way home from the pub in the early hours here.... so many country lanes and ditches it amazes me they make it!

As for sauce, my only vice is the occasional Hoegarden of Leffe or the odd JD. Irish do seem to have a reputation around our small planet as merry-makers so fortunately for me.... I'm English.... :D Banished from London 5yrs ago....

BTW, just checked and the tyre is still up..... :thumbsup:
 
Very weird, indeed. In the aviation world we call these unexplained events "gremlins". There's gotta be an explanation for this, but lord only knows what it is. You and I will probably never know. Keep checking the pressure and let us know if it does this to you again. I've had a few instances where the light has come on and all the pressures checked good. This was when it first started getting cold outside here and I adjusted the pressures a couple of times and reset the system as the temps changed. One time was during some very spirited driving with the ZSCCA folks in the Poconos Mountains in NorthEast Pennsylvania. My guess there was that the occational spinning of the rears heated them up a bit and caused the sensor to reconize the pressure difference, but by the time I got home the pressures checked good.

On the other hand, when FNI was here the light didn't come on during our drive and when I got home she convinced me to check the pressures and they were off quite a bit. Hmmmm :scratchhead:
 
Hi Flyboyaj

Thanks for the feedback... indeed the car had been sat in close to zero temps for 2 or so days, then started my drive when it was about 6 or so degrees and took some spirited corners along my route... so maybe there was a tyre temp change after all...which then set off the TPW system...!

Then combined with either a faulty reading on my tyre gauge or incorrect positioning of gauge on the valve, to give the lower reading.

But in a vain hope to recapture my childhood xmas memories, I'm sticking with your gremlin theory.... or leprechauns as we call them here...! :rofl:

Little green men inside my dashboard....
 
I like to call incidents such as these, pilot error :poke: :poke: just kidding AJ.
We usually refer to it as PFM (Pure F'n Magic)
 
Pretty sure it all boils down to this sort of thing....

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