# Explain tyre pressures, please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-tyre-pressures-please/423329>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 19, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-tyre-pressures-please/423329 "2007-10-19T21:37:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-tyre-pressures-please/423329/21 "2007-10-20T02:43:33Z")

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[QUOTE=mangeorge]  
I’m sure that tire pressure monitors are required by the NTSA since the mid 2000’s, and I think that pressure charts are standardized to the driver’s side front door jamb. But I’m not sure. I think the service guy at Honda told me that.  
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Probably wasn’t knowledge being offered by my local Ford dealer 😉

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-tyre-pressures-please/423329/22 "2007-10-20T02:59:56Z")

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[QUOTE=GorillaMan]  
Probably wasn’t knowledge being offered by my local Ford dealer 😉  
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Yeah. If you’re not in the US, the NTSA has little say over your local Ford dealer.

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