Patent ID: 7528705

Claim:
A method of monitoring pressures in respective tires of a vehicle, the vehicle having tire pressure monitoring apparatus providing signals to a vehicle control representing pressures in respective ones of the tires, the vehicle control having user I/O, and the method comprising: detecting a tire pressure error in one of the tires; presenting to a user a first sensory perceptible signal representing the tire pressure error in the one of the tires; then, detecting a user input representing a prospective tire filling activity; then, detecting a change in a tire pressure in a first tire; determining if the first tire is substantially the same as the one of the tires; presenting to the user a second sensory perceptible signal in response to the first tire being different from the one of the tires; and then, presenting a third sensory perceptible signal to the user in response to a pressure in the one of the tires being substantially equal to a desired tire pressure.