Seat leon fr tyre pressure warning system not available and 4 warnings detected all at once

Jul 9, 2020
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Hope someone can help.

Our seat leon fr 2014 tyre pressure warning light popped up whilst driving, 100 miles later on the same journey 4 more warning lights appeared; ABS/ stabilisation control, hill start, start stop, headlight range control. After putting air in both front tyres (low by 5 PSI), drove down the road then tried to set the tyre pressure but it kept saying not available.
I'm now stuck with 5 warning lights that won't go away even when the tyres are all at the same PSI.

Anyone experienced this before. I'm taking the car to the tyre shop today to fix the slow punctures.

Thank you
 

mcspook

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Feb 11, 2020
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Maybe an abs sensor cause every warning seems to use the abs sensor. Your speedometer work?
 

Damo H

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100% it’ll be an ABS sensor. Had an intermittent one on a previous car, couple of times it would show as fine, only for at a junction kill all the power as I was pulling out. Then finally show the fault just before I got T boned. Thankfully it was fixed before I had an accident.

The ABS sensor is used for:
ABS (Obviously)
Traction Control
XDS
Stability Control
TPMS
 
Jul 9, 2020
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100% it’ll be an ABS sensor. Had an intermittent one on a previous car, couple of times it would show as fine, only for at a junction kill all the power as I was pulling out. Then finally show the fault just before I got T boned. Thankfully it was fixed before I had an accident.

The ABS sensor is used for:
ABS (Obviously)
Traction Control
XDS
Stability Control
TPMS

Thank you for your help, bit worried about driving it with the kids.
 

Damo H

Remind me, what's an indicator?
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Thank you for your help, bit worried about driving it with the kids.
So long as it detects the fault as soon as you turn the engine on, you're fine. I think in the more modern cars it doesn’t clear the fault after a restart like it did on that car (Mini). At least that is the case now in the newer Minis.

So if it detects the fault, you’ll be fine, only thing really to be concerned about is an emergency stop, you’ll have to remember your emergency stop process to not lock the brakes. So just give extra space to other cars :)

If it doesn’t detect the fault again then just do quick brake check when it’s save to do so, and it should pop back up :)
 
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RUM4MO

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The really annoying and maybe legal issue now is, from maybe as far back as 1990, ABS was a legal requirement for all new models of road cars, from maybe 2015, TPMS was also a legal requirement for all new models of road cars, so now you are driving a car that has both these legal requirements disabled - I'm just pointing out the facts as they could be interpreted.

So, when you ask that question about is it safe to carry my kids, you have to consider what I've written above, typically everything could be okay and no harm done - or not, so get it sorted out now !

Edit:- I had that issue (ABS fault) with a GSI Cav while it was under warranty, and it was deepest winter, I changed all my plans and got it in to get sorted out ASAP even although it meant me having to travel by bus while the VX dealership made a meal of fixing it.