Run Flat Warning

[PaulPJ]

Hi Guys, last weekend my dial lit up red telling me I had a flat or that I was low on air. When I tried to move off the car wouldn't move and then the engine stopped and would not start. Is this part and parcel of the warning. Anyway I got it going and stopped at the BP station just outside Ringwood and the nearside rear was down to 20psi. Put 50p worth of air in and fine now. Paul

 

[whitenemesis]

TPMS will not stop the car running. Your two things are unrelated.

 

[PobodY]

As above. - I've had a red "tyre pressure loss" warning a couple of times (normally after driving on particularly rough surfaces) and it's never prevented the car from moving.

Having said that, if it occurred after hitting a couple of potholes it could be that something got knocked loose at the same time that air escaped from the tyre?

 

[jfhuk]

I once hit a particularly nasty pot hole in Ireland and all the lights on the dash lit up like it was Xmas. I thought I'd done some major damage, but luckily a quick restart put things back to normal. It was a near brown trousers moment for awhile!