How do I reset the run flat tyre indicator?

How do I reset the run flat tyre indicator?

1) press and HOLD the button in the lower center console (has the same icon as the red warning light on the dash). After a few seconds, the dash light will change from red to yellow. Start driving immediately, in a normal manner, for a few minutes and the light will extinguish.

How do you reset the run flat indicatator?

You don’t have a run flat indicatior. You have a tire pressure monitor. Owners manual relates how to reset. IIRC get the tire pressure monitor display up and then press R. If there’s a reaction, you’re done. I thought you just get to the screen and press the R button? You shouldn’t have to hold it for that long.

Can a run flat warning be a puncture?

Quick update after being able to properly inspect the tyres in the morning light: it’s most definitely a puncture. Can add “screw stuck deep in the tread” to the list of signs you have a puncture. Unfortunately since the car was left overnight it’s in no state to drive, despite the accursed run flat technology.

What’s the run flat indicator on a Ford Focus?

Hooking up the air hose to each tyre, I got some very odd readings: 39psi in the front drivers, 28psi rear drivers, 32 rear passenger, 39 front passenger. I inflated and deflated all tyres to 32 and reset the run flat indicator as per the manual.

1) press and HOLD the button in the lower center console (has the same icon as the red warning light on the dash). After a few seconds, the dash light will change from red to yellow. Start driving immediately, in a normal manner, for a few minutes and the light will extinguish.

You don’t have a run flat indicatior. You have a tire pressure monitor. Owners manual relates how to reset. IIRC get the tire pressure monitor display up and then press R. If there’s a reaction, you’re done. I thought you just get to the screen and press the R button? You shouldn’t have to hold it for that long.

Quick update after being able to properly inspect the tyres in the morning light: it’s most definitely a puncture. Can add “screw stuck deep in the tread” to the list of signs you have a puncture. Unfortunately since the car was left overnight it’s in no state to drive, despite the accursed run flat technology.

Hooking up the air hose to each tyre, I got some very odd readings: 39psi in the front drivers, 28psi rear drivers, 32 rear passenger, 39 front passenger. I inflated and deflated all tyres to 32 and reset the run flat indicator as per the manual.