Just got home after a weekend in Leavenworth Wa for the 2019 "Leavenworth Drive", the M5 drove great and turned a few heads along the way. Even 7 months pregnant my wife was a trooper and came along.
It is incredible how these cars can make what is about a 3-hour drive feel like no time at all.
The only issue I had was about 2/3rds of the way there I got an error message saying "tire defect", after a quick search in the owners manual it appears that is supposed to mean I have a flat tire. When I got the message I slowed down and got off the road when I had a chance. After checking the pressures in all 4 tires, they were all right on. I did not have cell coverage in the area where this happened so we continued one and once we did have service I found some instances of this error message online.
As I understand it, this message is triggered when a wheel speed sensor notices that one wheel is spinning at a different RPM than expected and assumes that is because tire pressure has dropped making the size of the tire different and causing different RPMs. Am I understanding that correctly?
My assumption is that the sensor is either failing, gone bad, or is just experiencing general electrical issues. From what I read online, it sounded like a dealer or someone with a programming tool could turn this feature off?
Curious what others have done with this.
It is incredible how these cars can make what is about a 3-hour drive feel like no time at all.
The only issue I had was about 2/3rds of the way there I got an error message saying "tire defect", after a quick search in the owners manual it appears that is supposed to mean I have a flat tire. When I got the message I slowed down and got off the road when I had a chance. After checking the pressures in all 4 tires, they were all right on. I did not have cell coverage in the area where this happened so we continued one and once we did have service I found some instances of this error message online.
As I understand it, this message is triggered when a wheel speed sensor notices that one wheel is spinning at a different RPM than expected and assumes that is because tire pressure has dropped making the size of the tire different and causing different RPMs. Am I understanding that correctly?
My assumption is that the sensor is either failing, gone bad, or is just experiencing general electrical issues. From what I read online, it sounded like a dealer or someone with a programming tool could turn this feature off?
Curious what others have done with this.