Ford Focus UK 2017 Tyre pressure monitoring

May 29, 2019 1 Replies

Ford Focus UK 2017 1 litre petrol



I have a tyre pressure sensor that is very intermittent. The car is reporting that it cannot detect the sensor rather than reporting a low tyre pressure. I had this twice in the past week but the "fault" has always cleared with a further 5 minutes of driving.



Tyre pressures have been checked and all are OK.



I've used FORSCAN diagnostic tool to establish that the last warning occurred with sensor number 4 (of 4). More correctly sensor 4 shows a very large deviation from the values reported by the other 3 sensors.



Now the question is what wheel is associated with sensor 4? Is there a convention as to how the wheels are numbered for the purposes of diagnostics.



It doesn't have any clue. Depends on tyre rotation.

Try a "reset". Read the manual as its somewhere in the menu.

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If that doesn't fix it, fit the spare to each corner in turn and "hide" the wheel you removed. (tin foil hat?) If it then says 1,2, or 3 are faulty then wheel you hid isn't number 4.

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