Got the full story from western ! the wheel needs replaced as the 1 sensor on my car is the wrong 1 it's the more expensive sensor, that should be fitted on all wheels but as mines dose not ,they have ordered me a new wheel with the sensor which works of only 1 wheel ? R they fobbing me of with the cheaper option ???
I still really cant understand this, the wheel itself doesnt have a sensor unless you have the full pressure based system and with htat system you would have a sensor in all four wheels its very similar to the system that RedRobin fitted with wireless sensors and you have to have a sensor on every wheel for it to provide any sort of useful information.
The system as standard on the GTI uses the ABS sensors to determine tyre pressure and again would require a sensor on every corner but these have no relevance to the wheel itself and the sensors are part of the hub. Even if your wheel had one of the pressure sensors installed it would be able to interact with the car as there is no receiver so this wouldnt cause issue with your TPMS system and if the wheel was correctly balanced then the ABS based system would be fine!
Have they told you what parts will be changed when they do the work? Is it the whole alloy wheel? Or is it part of the hub?