Hello, hope this isn't too stupid.  We bought a Skoda last summer (don't laugh) and I thought it was about time I checked the tyre pressures.  The book says there is a sticker on the fuel cap saying the correct amounts - this indicates they should be 122/22 (from memory).  I checked one tyre which is 24 - my last car was 27 I think.  Has anyone any idea what the numbers on the fuel cap actually mean as they don't seem to correspond with the air machines?  Perhaps someone else has a Skoda (Fabia estate)?
Thanks
Alex

Usually pressures are given in either Bar or Psi.

I tend to use Psi but 1Bar = 14.5Psi aprox.

I'm not sure what the figure 122 relates to in your case but it is possible that the 22 is 22Psi ?  

Have a look here http://www.thetyrepressuremonitor.com/tyrepressures_skoda.html

Not sure what those figures are (could it be the tyre size?) but I couldn't find the manual recently to check the correct tyre pressures for my car and found this site where you can look up the tyre pressures for any car:
http://www.thetyrepressuremonitor.com
sorry can't do links so you'll have to cut and paste.
Hope it helps

Thank you both very much - I'll have a look.
Best wishes
Alex

Do what i did, phone your local skoda dealer and ask them. Tell them your tyre size ( on actual tyre) and they will tell you.

As you open the drivers door, look at the sill on the left hand side, where the door latch is, not the hinges.  There should be a sticky label there telling you all about your required tyre size, etc.

Apparently all cars have them, that is what I was told when I noticed mine for the first time since getting the car 6 yrs ago!!

not all cars have them in the same place. Try looking under the bonnet as well near the front. Should be a small metal plate with some information.

jackyjat,  you are right.  Most are in the door shut.  With some foreign cars they are in the passenger door. Phone skoda they should be able to tell you.  Or pop into a dealership they should do it free of charge,  people come in here all of the time to get thier pressures checked,  male or female. They will probably show you aswell for future reference.

It should be in your handbook, if you don't have one the manufacturer usually has spare ones for free.

Also most garages have a chart up by the air pressure machine.

Thanks everyone.  The website doesn't have our specific model so I'm going to ring the dealer or pop in at the weekend as Emma suggests.  The handbook only refers to the sticker in the fuel cap and I don't understand the figures on that!!
Thanks for your help, I knew we should have bought a Mercedes :)

Hi Alex

Take it to the dealer and look pathetic and they might do it for you :D  The figures on the sticker in the fuel cover refer to the type of tyres and a pressure which isn't Psi and needs converting to correspond to UK air machines!!  I had this problem and had to be feeble with a male colleague to find out what it all meant, then had to find an air pressure conversion site to find out what the pressure should be and then when I had it all worked out and went to Tesco garage the air machine was broken, so they still need doing!  But mine's an Octavia so even if I told you the Psi's it wouldn't help, sorry :)

Lesley

Edited to say: and now that I've looked, I've lost the Postit that I wrote them on so it's back to square one for me too Grrrrrrrrr

Thanks Lesley, you've made me feel a lot better, I thought it was just me :)  I have emailed the dealer but no reply so I'll take it in - I'll have no trouble at all looking pathetic though it might help if I was fifteen years younger, blonde and three stone lighter!! :)

Alex

Edited to say please don't think I mean young slim blondes look pathetic, they just might get offered more help than short plump ageing brunnettes :)

That's me too, short plump aging brunette :)  But you never know, the bloke at the dealership might have a thing for short plump aging brunettes :D

Lesley

Treacle you won't look pathetic. We have men in who don't know how to check thier tyre pressures. Honestly Ive been in the car trade for eleven years,  we even have techs from other places coming in for us to check thier pressure.  11yrs and I still don't have a clue,  i get the boys to check my levels etc. 

This limit could be kPa or kilo Pascals :)

Thanks all.  I still haven't got round to sorting this but will do soon - thanks for all the advice.  Have both mothers round to dinner tonight as we're at a show tomorrow :) and I'm attempting to make the house look as if it's lived in by humans not solely dogs at the moment - and we've only got the one (this is a much needed short Champdogs break)!! 
Alex

Treacle
forgot to add I "think" you multiply the 122 (kPa) by 0.145to give the PSI (Pounds Per Square Inch)
which comes to 17 ish
and to convert to bar its multiply 122 by .01
( seem quite low though)
:)

i always think my tyres look too flat at their proper pressures! so always pump them up to 30!!!!! OMG is this a bad thing!!!??? i was just chuffed ive managed to inflate & not deflate!!!!