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Does anyone know how to change the time the Follow me Home lights stay on for? Glance at the handbook and it suggests its done thorough the U-Connect App thing though I've not really used/played with that yet? Is there not an option direct on the car like most other recent FCA products?
 
Does anyone know how to change the time the Follow me Home lights stay on for? Glance at the handbook and it suggests its done thorough the U-Connect App thing though I've not really used/played with that yet? Is there not an option direct on the car like most other recent FCA products?
It's not on uConnect, press the settings cog button on the central nav thing and there's a bunch of car settings including delay timer for lights in there.
 
Perfect - thanks (again!) mate. I thought that was just for the radio settings etc.
One final thing if I may without wanting to start another thread - the Tyre Pressure Monitoring panel on the dash. Is is not supposed to display the actual pressures? Mine shows the car graphic but no figures? Or is it supposed to be like that and just show an alert when the pressure dips too low?
 
Perfect - thanks (again!) mate. I thought that was just for the radio settings etc.
One final thing if I may without wanting to start another thread - the Tyre Pressure Monitoring panel on the dash. Is is not supposed to display the actual pressures? Mine shows the car graphic but no figures? Or is it supposed to be like that and just show an alert when the pressure dips too low?

I think the deal is pump up the tyres to the correct pressure all round, then go into the small screen menu and reset the tyre pressure thingy. Then I presume it locks in this as the baseline and warns you if the deviation from this is over a particular threshold. I have a recommended psi of 35 but i put 37 in because over time they always lose a bit so means i have to reinflate them less often.
 
The 500X uses an indirect TPMS. Rather than measure pressure directly, it compares the rotational speed from each wheel, obtained from the ABS sensors. If a tyre loses pressure, its rolling diameter will reduce and the wheel rotation rate will increase. This is what the system detects. It's quite sensitive - I set mine off when I swapped wheels front to back. Once I reset the system, the warning went away and didn't recur.
Full description here: https://www.bridgestonetire.com/tre...ire-pressure-monitoring-system-how-tpms-works
 
As both posts above state. Pump up to equal pressure all round, go for a run and reset the monitor at the start. Trev is correct it actually monitors rotational difference not pressure. So it's up to you to set the pressures correctly first before the reset and then it'll do it's stuff. Big point to note, do all pressures at once, using same pump and guage, don't try topping up individual tyres before resetting as you soon get warnings.
 
Thanks Gents - all in all we're pleased with another FCA product. The wife loved her old Sedici but this is a worthy successor - and some!
 
We had a Sedici too and loved it, 1.9 4x4, bit agricultural especially the gearbox, but fast and amazingly competent off road especially with dif locks on really loose muddy or snowy ground. Liking our 500x too, though it is much more a 'soft roader' but a lot more refined.
 
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Yes we had the 1.6 Petrol which although was actually the Suzuki unit was decent enough. And agreed - off-road they were superb. We literally used to live in the middle of a field and the thing was great fun in the snow! We actually even considered getting another if we could've found a facelift car but they only sold a handful here before withdrawing them from the UK. We may have considered the 4x4 500X but the wife doesn't like Auto's.
 
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