Tyre Pressure Monitors - Compulsory?

[seefive]

Anyone know why new cars are still being sold without tyre pressure monitors ? According to some reliable sources ( Daily Telegraph, Auto Express etc on line) they were made compulsory for all cars by an EU directive effective November 2012.

Also an MOT item now, or maybe 2015?

 

Most manufacturers, including Citroen,  do not offer them at all on lower spec cars, and charge extra on "high spec" versions .

 

Personally, I have them on my C5 exclusive, and I think they are a good thing. There's no way I would go around the car with a little guage to test the tyres on any sort of regular basis.

 

Maybe manufacturers are just flouting the law? Very strange

[Johndouglas]

 

Personally, I have them on my C5 exclusive, and I think they are a good thing.

Yes - they're on mine too.   Just a couple of days as I drove off, mine beeped.   The display showed the rear n/s was down.   Put the inflator on it and it showed 2bar when it should have been 2.5   Coming up to 8 years old, I'm wondering how much more life the batteries have got.

[seefive]

a bit more from the net

It seems they are compulsory now, but the manufacturer doesn't have to comply until 2014 - what a mess!!

Only an MOT item on cars registerd from 2012 onwards, so don't know why it would be an advisory before 2015 - no test needed.

 

As of 1st November 2012, all new-type vehicles will be required by EU law to have a pressure based tyre pressure monitoring system installed. This applies to the road wheels, not the spare

 

By November 2014, all new passenger vehicles will have to have TPMS installed by the manufacturer

The law is not currently retrospective, and does not apply to older vehicles

This law applies to passenger vehicles only, with no more than 7 seats

 

TPMS is now part of the annual vehicle test, and applies to all newly registered cars from January 1st 2012.  This means that a car with a faulty TPMS will fail the vehicle test from January 2015

Until 2015, a faulty TPMS will only be an advisory and be listed on the testing certificate (UK).  Different European countries may interpret the EU legislation differently.  So please refer to your own European country legislation

 

 

 

[TimeTraveller]

Normally it works that new models being introduced from a given date have to have the ...whatever's , daylight running lamps, and whatever other whims they fancy.  So if a model doesn't have them fitted even beyond the introduced from 2014 date, then it would only be new models.

 

As I understand it, it doesn't always work like that (emissions for example), but that is true for many updates.

[john h]

More gadgets to go wrong

[Johndouglas]

More gadgets to go wrong

Yes - I go along with that.   But I find the tyre monitor system very useful.   Normally I run my rear wheels at 3bar pressure.   Last week I got new tyres fitted on the back.   A mile down the road from the tyre shop I got a 'dong' together with a message telling me that I had punctures in both rear wheels.   I carried on home, checked the pressures only to find the fitter had inflated them to 1.9bar.