Preventing Accidents – Tyre Pressures
Maintaining your tyres is critical for the safety of you, your family and other road users. Badly maintained tyres adversely affect your ability to handle your car properly in an emergency or high-speed situation. Worn or wrongly inflated tyres are a factor in 20% of all accidents.
Just making sure that your tyres have the correct pressure in them can reduce tyre wear, improve fuel efficiently and make your vehicle safer to drive. Having the wrong amount of air in your tyres can lead to a blow out, which in turn often leads to a serious accident. Think how you would feel if someone lost their life, because you did not take 5 minutes out of your week to check your tyre pressures.
Spot checks around the world have shown that up to 27% of vehicles are driven with the wrong tyre pressures. In some countries, this has far-reaching financial consequences for the driver. Some insurance companies will not settle accident claims because the wrongly inflated tyres contributed to the accident. On other occasions, drivers are heavily fined, prosecuted or sued when wrongly inflated tyres contribute to an accident.
Check your tyre pressures on a weekly basis. If you carry out your checks at your local petrol station, you will know that the check is accurate, and easily be able to add the necessary air at the same time as carrying out your check. The correct tyre pressures for your car can be found in your owner’s manual or on the vehicle’s ID plate. As well as checking your tyre pressures, check the depth of your tyre tread.
If you cannot rely on yourself to carry out a weekly tyre check, fit a system that will do it for you. You cialis on line can buy sensors that are placed inside each tyre, which then monitor the pressure and temperature inside each tyre. Using Wi-Fi you are warned when your tyres need air or become too hot. The receiver usually just plugs into your cars cigarette lighter, or can be wired into the dashboard.
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