[Mike]

Another tire pressure fault day. Got in the Touareg after being out of town for nearly 6 days.

Started her up to see a Tire Pressure fault. Visually check the tire to confirm its ok. It appears to be, so I start driving. Not more than 100 yards away from home, the message changes to "FLAT TIRE". Grrrr. So, I check the tire again to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. The tire still appears fine so I keep going.

I stop after driving about 3 minutes (~1.5 miles down the road) to run some errands. Get back in the Touareg to see a new message: "DEFECTIVE TIRE ON BOARD" Hmmmm... this is new, I think to myself.

So, I decide to call Puente Hills VW to take her in. The guy tells me to drop it off for service on Friday. No chance. Not waiting a week to get this checked out.

I call up the VW dealer in Irvine (Ron Fladboe, I think), since McKenna VW in Huntington Beach are rude. The service department rep was extremely nice. She had never heard of this error before but said she will learn through it with, and I quote, "you and my techs in close contact". Awesome. I'm bringing it in tomorrow at 10am. So far, they seem like nice and helpful.

Also, they'll be ordering the cup holder for me that had one of its little springy-grabby-thingies (yea, its a technical term) snap back inside of itself.

I will update this as more info comes in tomorrow.

Until then, happy TReg'ing!

-Mike

 

[Mike]

Wow... here's the update:

1 screw in the left rear tire.
2 nails in the right rear tire.

They must have been there for about 1.5 months as this has been causing various TPMS errors. When I took it to Sunnyvale VW, they "tested" the tires and concluded there were no leaks (2 weeks ago). Hmm.. I disagree. I think they BS'd me. Also, I was told that the Tire Pressure was re-learned recently at about 45 psi, which is way above "normal". I didn't set it. I have a feeling Sunnyvale VW screwed around, but I can't prove anything so I will leave it at that for now.

I have a Dodge Dakota (enterprise) rental until the morning when my TReg should be ready to roll again.

Will update if necessary.

 

[Mike]

I agree.. i drove quite a distance w/ 2tires + 1 screw =)