Checking the tyre pressure with the tyre pressure
monitoring system
Requirements:
The vehicle is switched on.
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Driver's display:
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Service
4
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Press a to confirm.
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One of the following displays appears:
Current tyre pressure of each wheel:
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Tyre pressures will be displayed after a few
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minutes of
driving: current values are not yet
known to the system. The pressure/tempera-
ture values of each tyre are displayed as soon
as they are known to the system.
Tyre pressure monitor
active: the teach-in
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process of the system is not yet complete. The
tyre pressures are already being monitored.
Compare the current tyre pressure with the
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recommended tyre pressure for the current
operating condition (
page 431). Addition-
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ally, observe the notes on cold tyres
(
page 430).
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The values displayed in the driver's display
may deviate from those of the tyre pressure
gauge as they refer to sea level. At high eleva-
tions, the tyre pressure values indicated by a
tyre pressure gauge are higher than those
shown in the driver's display.
Bear in mind the following related topic:
Notes on tyre pressure (
page 430)
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Restarting the tyre pressure monitoring system
Requirements:
The recommended tyre pressure is correctly
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set for the respective operating status on each
of the four wheels (
page 430).
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Wheels and tyres 433
Restart the tyre pressure monitoring system in the
following situations:
The tyre pressure has changed.
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The wheels or tyres have been changed or
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newly fitted.
Driver's display:
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Service
4
5
Tyre pressure
Select
and confirm with a.
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Swipe downwards on Touch Control on the
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steering wheel.
The
Use current tyre pressures as new refer-
ence values?
message is shown in the driver's
display.
Select
Yes
and confirm the restart with a.
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The
Tyre pressure monitor restarted
is shown in the driver's display.
Current warning messages are deleted and
the yellow h warning lamp goes out.
After you have been driving for a few minutes,
the system checks whether the current tyre
pressures are within the specified range. The
current tyre pressures are then accepted as
reference values and monitored.
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