Didn't think this warranted it's own thread - so I'll tack this question in here if I may, well, more of a sanity check than question:
A couple of weeks back my Wife had a rear o/s flat when she 2as out and about, she tried the tyre gunk that came with her car (Honda HRV) but it just ****** out of the hole. Long story short, she used the recovery that came with the car and the next day, the AA put a temp wheel on and took her to get a tyre fitted.
Since the above fun and games, her TPS has been acting up - initially I thought I cracked it, as it hadn't been initialized after the new tyre, but the warnings popped up hours later. I checked her pressures and found the rears were set to the towing pressure, so I set those back and this time there were no warnings for almost a week.
Anyway, after having them pop up again, she took the car back to the dealer who told her: "the issue is caused by having a different brand of tyre", and the only fix was to pay to have the same as the others fitted!
When she called and told me this after leaving, I laughed as I thought she was joking - but they were dead serious! I'm no tyre expert granted, I'm only vaguely aware of not mixing tread patterns or somesuch, but I couldn't wrap my head around this advice; as surely (in relation to the TPS) the tyre is just a big balloon holding air - the make/pattern/etc should make no difference. Indeed, this is the advice the tyre fitter gave her, and kindly offered to check the TPS batteries in each wheel for free.
So, is the Dealer full of **** or am I simply missing out on some well known knowledge, since ditching cars for motorcycles?
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