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Seriously though I am with you.
My missus mini has so much stuff, even variable mood lighting FFS, and keeps telling her the tyre pressures are wrong, when the gauge says otherwise.
Going to have to replace a sensor I guess, she thinks I am trying to do her in making her drive about with dodgy tyres, as if :)
 
........Same with our car - it bristles with switches and have to keep looking at the 500 page manual as they are interactive and have a mind of their own. The "air conditioning" is really complicated. In my old Bedford CA van it was on/off, and pull a lever for screen/cabin/both. Dead simple and perfectly adequate.
It's called being an old git Jacob. Being one myself I can say that with confidence though I like all the gadgets in our cars.
 
Seriously though I am with you.
My missus mini has so much stuff, even variable mood lighting FFS, and keeps telling her the tyre pressures are wrong, when the gauge says otherwise.
Going to have to replace a sensor I guess, she thinks I am trying to do her in making her drive about with dodgy tyres, as if :)

I wouldn't worry about it and certainly not bother with new sensors. My wife is on her 5th Mini the current one being extremely well equipped and regularly gets the same warning as she also did on her previous 2. Our neighbour has a 2019 Mini with the same issue and she came round in a panic a few weeks ago when it first happened. Our little Citigo does it occasionally as does both Fiesta's my daughter has owned recently.
My car on the other hand has only done it once when I had a slow puncture but that's just luck I guess. I think many of the sensors on modern cars are far too sensitive, an opinion shared by our local garage owner.
 
For the record as the originator I do not mind thread drift on this thread (or Putinist trolls) - anything which promotes "Putin is a loser" works for me!

Just be thankful you don't have to drive a Lada.
 
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For the record as the originator I do not mind thread drift on this thread (or Putinist trolls) - anything which promotes "Putin is a Loser" works for me!

Just be thankful you don't have to drive a Lada.
Had one years ago. Estate model. It looked a very neat practical design (ex Fiat) but just not reliable or nice to drive. Somebody stole the best bit which was the battery, with an image on it of happy looking soviet peasants and tractors.
Pleased with my newly formed acronym "PDP" = Poisoned Dwarf Press. Leaders of the pack being Telegraph and D Mail. Dedicated to lies, half truths, conspiracy theories, reasons to hate your neighbours/foreigners/black people, reasons to blame/distrust almost everybody, reasons for not voting to tax the rich and look after the poor, reasons for being miserable and angry...etc etc.
 
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This is a silly thread full of quotes from elsewhere, but it is interesting to see the styles of argument. The word propaganda is used often, especially by Robin, and is used to describe the portrayal of the Russian side of the argument. On the other side we have "facts" apparently, which can be regarded as truth.

Meanwhile, over on the Russian Workshop Forum, Russian Robbo is tearing into rabid right wingers accusing them of spreading propaganda, whilst refuting their nonsense with proper Russian facts.

Meanwhile the wind continues to howl and the floodwaters rise and tractor drivers show off.
 
I wouldn't worry about it and certainly not bother with new sensors. My wife is on her 5th Mini the current one being extremely well equipped and regularly gets the same warning as she also did on her previous 2. Our neighbour has a 2019 Mini with the same issue and she came round in a panic a few weeks ago when it first happened. Our little Citigo does it occasionally as does both Fiesta's my daughter has owned recently.
My car on the other hand has only done it once when I had a slow puncture but that's just luck I guess. I think many of the sensors on modern cars are far too sensitive, an opinion shared by our local garage owner.
Oh I would happily leave it, but of course every time you start the damn thing it keeps saying the pressures are wrong.
The laugh is that this really gets her going, but she has never actually checked the tyre pressures of any car she has ever owned !
 
Reminds me of a joke Ronald Reagan once told.

" Soviet apparatchik: OK you can have a new car.
Pay for it now and you can collect it in 10 years from today.

Russian asks: Morning or afternoon
Soviet: why would that matter ?.

Russian: the plumber is coming in the morning."
 
If I don't agree with some of the nonsense that has been written on here then I make it clear

People bring facts and evidence and show you the receipts.
Which you then label as nonsense!
That in itself beggars belief. How can it be "nonsense" if it is substantiated by evidence and therefore makes sense? Answer: these substantiated facts (not "opinions") cannot be labelled as "nonsense", except by someone who is playing loose with observable reality in order for their own "opinion" not to be found to be built on nothing but fresh air and quicksand.

but I am not intolerant so that is the primary difference between myself and ideologists like yourself.

LOL. good one, Tony. Particularly as you are normally very, very insulting of particular people - and always, always, always without any substantiation, evidence or basis within observable reality. Just your "opinion". Which you are welcome to. However, if your opinion doesn't tally with observable reality and evidence based substantiation, then prepare for your opinion to be challenged with the use of facts, evidence and reality based observations. Not just counter opinions, but actual facts and evidence.

Whenever anyone has taken you to task, they have always provided the substantiation as to why the opinion that you have formed is not based upon any evidence, truth or any credible analysis.


Anyway, having written above that you can be very, very insulting, without any evidence based substantiation....
this is quite literally what you then go on to do in the very next paragraph:

Quite frankly it really beggars belief when back here at home we have a bunch of intolerant political incompetents who it seems are determined to destroy the UK's business competitiveness and even create mass unemployment all for the sake of a flawed ideology.
Before criticising the leaders of other nations and the people who vote for them, I'd argue you should address the problems closer to home.

You say that you are "not intolerant". Yet anyone who reads this ^^ paragraph will probably, like me, reach a differing conclusion. Since it appears that you most certainly are intolerant, right there in black and white on the public internets.

You say "determined to destroy the UK's business". <- Not substantiated by facts or evidence.
It must be a perspective thing, because I say "determined to rebuild the UK's public services that have been systematically destroyed by the previous government's dogmatic ideological approach and intent over the past 14 years".
I invite you to provide any credible material or credible evidence (not just your dogmatic unfounded opinions) which would contradict that viewpoint. Go ahead and impress me with your body of evidence which must exist for you to harbour such strong dogmatic opinion. Impress me with your skillful and adroit analytical skills and lead me through your evidence to a conclusion which reinforces your claims. Or not. Your choice.

But until you do provide that deft analysis, know that if it is just opinion that you bring, it is your opinion that will be challenged (not you personally, not your character, and not your 'self', just your opinion) and it will be challenged using all the available clues from credible sources and knitted together to form a convincing and strong evidence-based substantiation as to why your particular unfounded opinion is, well, unfounded... At which point you are, of course, still free to keep harbouring that unfounded opinion, even after it has been directly refuted by fact. This is your prerogative. And that is fair. Absurd, mind. But still your prerogative.

Not unlike the people who (...back on topic...) swore blind that Trumps "economic plan" was credible and very positive for them. Only later to realise that it actually isn't. Despite it being spelled out to them on national TV in the presidential debates. And even then, my prediction is that many of them will stubbornly cling to their prior opinion, even when it transpires to be refuted in reality.

Yep, folks, today I have been re-visiting some of the information presented directly to audiences in those debates prior to the election, and it is clear to me that Harris spoke well of her plan. Sadly, the majority of voters took the word of a known liar over someone who spoke truth, simply because they "support a particular Team" or "hold a particular unfounded assumed opinion". Saddening.
 
Seriously though I am with you.
My missus mini has so much stuff, even variable mood lighting FFS, and keeps telling her the tyre pressures are wrong, when the gauge says otherwise.
Going to have to replace a sensor I guess, she thinks I am trying to do her in making her drive about with dodgy tyres, as if :)
Quite happy to read this, and your comments, Lons - I got a Mini for my daughter last year, lovely little car, and a sports car compared to my van. But the bloo** tyre pressure light has repeatedly appeared and worries her; I check all tyres, then get the lad to reset the warning. Clearly a known issue, I guess.

Oh, and Putin is definitely a loser. As is Trump. (Never sure which thread I'm in these days.)
 
Oh I would happily leave it, but of course every time you start the damn thing it keeps saying the pressures are wrong.
The laugh is that this really gets her going, but she has never actually checked the tyre pressures of any car she has ever owned !
Have you performed a tyre pressure reset? If there was an issue with a wheel speed sensor you would have fault lights on the instrument cluster. On all the mini's you have to perform a reset which involves a short drive for the car to recalibrate the system. It works off the ABS sensors and calculates the rolling diameter of the wheels.

Gerry
 
The word propaganda is used often, especially by Robin, and is used to describe the portrayal of the Russian side of the argument. On the other side we have "facts" apparently, which can be regarded as truth.
There is a mountain of documented evidence of an extremely very well funded and orchestrated Russian propaganda campaign against the West, and the existence of its 'firehose of lies' is not debateable. (There was a recent batch showing the targeting of the Mail's comments section). There is no equivalent in the West, so your post is drawing a false equivalence.
Meanwhile, over on the Russian Workshop Forum, Russian Robbo is tearing into rabid right wingers accusing them of spreading propaganda, whilst refuting their nonsense with proper Russian facts.
Your understanding of Russian politics seems to be 30 years out of date. Russian Robbo is a fascist these days, tearing into liberal democrats (if any haven't been Novichoked).
 
Have you performed a tyre pressure reset? If there was an issue with a wheel speed sensor you would have fault lights on the instrument cluster. On all the mini's you have to perform a reset which involves a short drive for the car to recalibrate the system. It works off the ABS sensors and calculates the rolling diameter of the wheels.

Gerry
Yes done it several times. It persistently gives a low reading on the same wheel, when it is actually fine. Need to service it over the holiday so will replace the sensor and see if that does the trick.
 
Oh I would happily leave it, but of course every time you start the damn thing it keeps saying the pressures are wrong.
The laugh is that this really gets her going, but she has never actually checked the tyre pressures of any car she has ever owned !
The first thing I did all those years ago when my wife got her first car was show her how to check pressures, oil, screen washer fluid and how to change a wheel now of course she would ring me or breakdown for the latter
Got to put your foot down and buy her a pressure gauge for Christmas. ;):unsure:
 
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