Warning light not in manual

[maxi-glasgow]

I have a warning light that's came on last night. Its at far right bottom.

 

looks like a horseshoe with exclaimation mark in middle and little dotts along bottom.

 

My mates Passat manual has an identical warning light in the manual which is a tyre pressure warning. But the 370z manual doesn't seem to show the 370z as having such a function as these are usually for cars which have run flat tyres are they not?

[ioneabee]

I'm pretty sure thats the tyre pressure warning light - check your pressures

[fuzboo]

Yes, it's the tyre pressure warning light I spent a fun 10min at the side of the road trying to find it in the manual (totally absent!) before the bloody great screw sticking out of the tyre told me what it was

[JetSet]

as these are usually for cars which have run flat tyres are they not?

 

Used to be, but not any more. All new models introduced after 1st November 2012 have to have them, run flats or not. From 2014 all new cars will have to be fitted with TPMS. I believe that TPMS has been mandatory on all new cars in The U.S.A for a while which is probably why the 370Z already has them. Older cars won't have to have them retro fitted.

 

 

Pete