2007 Audi Q7: Another Car's "Tyre" Pressure Warning

Don't some Canadians spell it "tyre" as well? Regardless, I agree. Kind of odd. Maybe Audi's trying to make it a new elitist trend. "Can you believe it, dahling? The Kensingtons still have "tires" on all their autos. Ha ha."

More likely, it was spelled "tyre" for the British market, rather than Canadian, since the Q7 is built in Europe.

Our Q7 has had an ongoing tire pressure "issue." We had a tire-pressue warning pop up about a month ago. We took the suspect tire to our local tire shop. But when dunked, the tire didn't show any leaks. Something is still obviously amiss with one of the tires, so hopefully we'll get it sorted out soon. -- Brent

Don't all gas stations have tire pressure gauges on their air machines that they have to let customers use for free?

Carlisimo, they do but we find that the numbers are usually not accurate. And we have tire pressure gauges in the gloveboxes of most of our long-termers. The Q7 was just missing its own.

The TPMS sensor or valve stem may be malfunctioning. The ones on BMWs fail every now and then -- not regularly, but frequently enough that I wasn't surprised when the dealership I was working at would replace them under warranty. Perhaps BMW and Audi use the same TPMS equipment. It wouldn't be the first time they've used the same supplier (think Bremi ignition coil recall)!

As a Canadian, no, we do not spell it "tyre." Any one who has travelled to Canada and seen one of the millions of Canadian Tire outlets can confirm that.

I suppose I'm getting off topic, jriz, but there's a rather interesting thread on Canadian spelling here:
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001119.php
 
I know I've seen a Canadian forum poster or two use the British spelling. You'd think all those Canadian Tire stores would change that...:)

OK, stupid question: why doesn't the display show the actual tire pressure so you know exactly how low it is? I know most GM vehicles like the SRX and Corvette can display the exact psi of each tire on the driver display. I can't imagine the Audi with all of its electronic features can't do this as well.

stingray454, some TPMS sensors only calculate tire inflation based on the number of rotations/revolutions of the wheels/tires to determine whether the tires are properly inflated or not.
 
In other cases, it might simply make too much sense?

It seems to me that Canadian spelling may very well depend on the origin of the Canadian.

I never trust garages to adjust tire pressure correctly, always carry a guage with you. Should check it every week or so anyhow.
 
I'd be curious to know how precise the in car systems are.
 
And we Canadians don't spell things differently, we spell them correctly.
 
Everyone else is wrong. :)

I'm with you there firstwagon. We speak English, anything closer to what English people use is MORE correct.
 
ewilfong -- interesting article. As someone who split his education between Canada and the United States, I always struggled with all the weird spelling inconsistancies between the two countries. I'm still finding stuff I spell differently from my all-American colleagues. The one that always kills me is "ence" and "ense" words. It's the "Department of Defence" and I have a driver's "license," and yet Americans still spell it white picket "fence." I just don't get it.

I'm looking at a PowerPoint presentation on my hard drive from TRW, a maker of TPMS sensors found in many cars. The slide I'm looking at now says the sensor accuracy is 0.7 psi.
 
StingRay454: The reason many of the new FMVSS 138-compliant systems do not give position or display pressure is one of cost and available display space. The government does not require this level of detail in the display, so manufacturers are free to add it or not to their dashboards. I believe the Audi system could support such a readout if the company decided to offer it, as I'm 90% certain the Q7 has direct-measuring sensors.

Jriz - I believe Americans use "-nce" when the word has a crisp sharp ending should (defenS) as opposed to "-nse" when the last sylable trails off (licensss).
 
I'm no English major, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

LOL, estreka! That reminds me of the latest Holiday Inn express commercial with the basketball player being helped by the "trainer."