Another Tire Pressure Problem

[iinokturnolii]

i recently had 2 flat tires... and my tire pressure light didnt come on. i tried holding it (while driving) and it wouldn't blink like how it was suppose to. but when i am parked i hold the button it "sometimes" blinks. anybody know whats going on here? is something broken? let me know thanks!

[kingkakyle]

i cant really help....all i know is the car must be at a stop when u try to rpess the button....otherwise it wont reset anything

[iinokturnolii]

ohh okay... but how come it doesnt turn on when i get a flat? or low in tire pressure?

[HID04V6]

Mine is actually sitting at the dealership right now to get the tire pressure monitor fixed. All 5 of my tires (spare included) are at the proper pressure and it still comes on. I reset it, drive 5-6 miles and it comes back on. The dealership told me I could have some bad ABS sensors or something. I'll post more up when I find out what exactly is wrong.

[Down2TheC]

If the warning ever goes on for the spare, I'm calling the car haunted.

For the original post, it sounds like you're constantly resetting it which would explain it never turning on for you. You press the button to reset it when you want to turn the warning off.

[iinokturnolii]

If the warning ever goes on for the spare, I'm calling the car haunted.

For the original post, it sounds like you're constantly resetting it which would explain it never turning on for you. You press the button to reset it when you want to turn the warning off.

how do you turn it on... does it have to do with how many blink it binks after i hold the button.. to keep it on. can someone tell me how can i do that. i'm not going to mess with it after i get it on...

[linmk2]

My light came on today while driving. I looked at the tires and they looked fine. When I got home, I checked the pressure and found the left rear tire was about 12lbs low. Adjusted the pressure of that tire. Reset the light while car was sitting still. The rest of the day, everything was fine.

[Sentinel]

you can't tell if a tire is low by looking at it. By the time a tire "looks low" it is practically flat.

[SolaraDon]

Mine is actually sitting at the dealership right now to get the tire pressure monitor fixed. All 5 of my tires (spare included) are at the proper pressure and it still comes on. I reset it, drive 5-6 miles and it comes back on. The dealership told me I could have some bad ABS sensors or something. I'll post more up when I find out what exactly is wrong.

If you took a wheel off 5 or 6 miles isn't enough. I changed tires and wheels so had to reinitialize. Owners manual (p.153) says "initialization is completed after driving at speeds of 19 mph or over for more than an hour." That's the short answer. The TSB (it's in the TSB sticky) if it applies to your VIN tells you to drive for 6 minutes or more in each of the following speed zones: 20-38 mph, 38-56 mph, and 56-74 mph. Even after that my initialization wasn't complete as indicated per the light staying on 1 second longer than the ABS light when the car was started. Dealer told me it might take a few days for computer to adjust and sure enough after about 100 miles over 3 days it was fine and has been since.

[HID04V6]

Mine is actually sitting at the dealership right now to get the tire pressure monitor fixed. All 5 of my tires (spare included) are at the proper pressure and it still comes on. I reset it, drive 5-6 miles and it comes back on. The dealership told me I could have some bad ABS sensors or something. I'll post more up when I find out what exactly is wrong.

If you took a wheel off 5 or 6 miles isn't enough. I changed tires and wheels so had to reinitialize. Owners manual (p.153) says "initialization is completed after driving at speeds of 19 mph or over for more than an hour." That's the short answer. The TSB (it's in the TSB sticky) if it applies to your VIN tells you to drive for 6 minutes or more in each of the following speed zones: 20-38 mph, 38-56 mph, and 56-74 mph. Even after that my initialization wasn't complete as indicated per the light staying on 1 second longer than the ABS light when the car was started. Dealer told me it might take a few days for computer to adjust and sure enough after about 100 miles over 3 days it was fine and has been since.

Thanks for the info! I got a call yesterday telling me that mine has 2 bad ABS sensors and that is what is causing the problem. Apparantly the sensors are on back order, so I'm rolling around in my neighbor's TSX for a few more days.