TPMS in Ireland?

wolfric

How common are direct Tire pressure monitoring systems?

I know most, if not all cars have a tire pressure sensor, but how common would direct be vs indirect (see wikipedia entry). It mentions:

EU & Far East
European Union (EU) and Far East legislators are looking at TPMS as a way of reducing CO2 emissions, and are presently (as at January 2009) considering compulsory tire pressure monitoring systems from this environmental stance.[17]

However this is only for legal requirement. Are they already in place in most cars?

zilog_jones

wolfric wrote: »

I know most, if not all cars have a tire pressure sensor...

What? I don't think so, Tim. At a guess I'd say the majority of cheaper new cars don't have sensors, never mind "all cars".

P.S. They're "tyres" over here

Eric Cartman

cant think of any car with TPMS as standard, i know there fitted to cars with runflats but aside from that we dont use it, Irish people tend to know when our tyres are sagging or flat, its another system for lazy yanks

Row

The Peugeot 407's have them on the higher spec models.
Also Renault lagunas 02+...The new ford galaxys (higher spec)
...and theres a few more but can't remember...:o

Schrader in Antrim manufacture tpm's for most cars...:)
http://www.schraderelectronics.com/productspage.aspx