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Owner of a CRV 2022. On my recent 200-miles trip, the tire pressure sensor lighted up. I pulled over to a station and filled the air (and before I filled the air, I measured the pressure on each tire and it was fine). It didn't go away. Had anxiety the whole trip about whether there was a leak in any of the four tires.

After the trip, went to the dealership's workshop (btw, if you live in FL, NEVER EVER buy from Rick Case; they are scammy as hell in terms of pricing the cars as well as the maintenance fees). They said the pressure sensor sometimes got triggered and it needs the electronic reset to make it go away.

I think these electronification of cars is going too far and I'm really afraid in the future, I'd have to go to the dealership's workshop to get any minor glitch fix.

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Don't go to a dealer. Go to a tire shop. They will know more about the problem and will be far more willing to tell you what is actually wrong. You may just need a new sensor battery.

Yep. I went to Rick Case for annual check up to have a feel. I signed up online for a regular oil change (I have 6K miles on the car because we don't drive a lot) and tire rotation. The online quote was $90. When I arrived, the guy (expert consultant or whatever they call them) said he recommends me to do wheel alignment (and the quote was $110 without tax and other fees). I pushed back and said I only want tire rotation and oil change. Then he started looking a bit displeased (as if I dare challenge his authority). So I decided to go for it (in case he put a secret note on the paper to let the guys in the workshop know to do/not do something to my car).

Then I swore myself I'll never go back to Rick Case again for regular maintenance (I'm going to have to find a good mechanic though, which is kind of tricky, but I'll do it out of my hatred of Rick Case). I had a horrible buying experience with them too (their finance guy trying to sell me $2600 'umbrella' insurance package, which when I pressed him, didn't specify anything it covers. I didn't end up taking it and the finance guy looked pissed (but I didn't care because the amount of money, $2600, is non-negligible).

Yes! Be careful, the dealer will tell you not to touch transmission fluid, but it should be changed after 70k miles - it looked like sludge on my 2017.

Check everything yourself, trust no computers - if it doesn't catch an issue on your car and it breaks, the computer won't cover the costs!

TPMS (Tire Pressure Maintainance System) is actually quite a useful feature of more modern vehicles, given the driver advance notice of slow leaks. Yes, it does introduce several new components some of which are subject to failure, but I'm not sure we should view this as a step too far.

If you really don't like the light being on and don't the sensor(s) repaired/replaced/reset, a small piece of electrical tape over that part of the dash display is a cheap fix.

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