During the christmas holidays motorists can help avoid being stranded by the roadside in the freezing cold because of a breakdown or even worse a serious accident by monitoring their tyre pressure before they set off. TyreSafe issued this advice with a warning: “Drivers who fail to make these checks and adjustments significantly increase their likelihood of experiencing a dangerous tyre blowout.” “During the holiday period too many motorists suffer misery from tyre related breakdowns because they haven’t made adequate checks before setting off,” explains Stuart Jackson, chairman, TyreSafe. “Very often the cars are heavily loaded with extra passengers, luggage and presents and then head off on long, high-speed, motorway journeys. It’s essential when carrying extra weight that tyre pressures are checked and adjusted in line with the vehicle manufacturer’s recommendations. Motorists who fail to make these adjustments are much more likely to spend some of their Christmas break stranded at the roadside because of a tyre failure”.
Tyre Pressure Monitoring is a crucial health and safety check for any vehicle but even more so in the winter months. PressurePro is a device that takes the guesswork out of monitoring your vehicles tyre pressure. Click Tyre Pressure Monitoring for more details
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Misfuelling has been a common problem for the Suffolk Police, with over £10,000 worth of repairs bills being caused from putting petrol in a diesel car over the past 5 years.
“Unfortunately, even police officers and staff are prone to making mistakes such as this and it is down to human error,” said a Suffolk police spokeswoman.
Norfolk Police are also having problems with mis-fuelling when they announced earlier this year that blundering police officers had cost over £30,000 in the last six years by misfuelling. The largest amount was during 2007-08 when the repair bill for repairing vehicles damaged by mis-fuelling topped £8,000.
Diesel Key can save these costly bills that are generated by putting petrol in a diesel car. This simple to install device replaces the existing filler cap and, once fitted, prevents you from putting the wrong fuel into your diesel car.
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Motorists are being hit with the highest ever pre-Christmas fuel prices after diesel hit 5p a gallon for the first time in more than a year. Diesel has shot up nearly 12p a litre from its low price last January to reach an average 110p a litre.
Hauliers have also warned that more expensive fuel could push up shop prices, with retailers forced to pass on the higher costs to customers.The Freight Transport Association which represents 14,000 haulage companies said that these rising fuel costs would be impacting on businesses already suffering from the recession.
As prices rise and fuel becomes a valuable commodity the problem of fuel theft becomes an increasing problem.
However for a small investment there the perfect solution to such a problem. TP Anti Syph, this easy to fit device is a preventative measure against thieves siphoning fuel from vehicles.
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Nottingham County Council realise the importance of keeping fuel theft at bay. This ever increasing problem of thieves syphoning fuel from commercial and private vehicles is becoming an expensive problem. As a consequence Nottingham County Council have purchased 80 anti-siphoning devices to prevent fuel theft from their vehicles.
TP Anti Syph is a high quality device that helps to prevent the theft of fuel from commercial vehicles. It’s easy enough to install yourself .
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Michelin is naming – and shaming – the ten locations in the UK where you are most likely, according to results from its 2009 Fill Up With Air campaign, to encounter motorists driving on dangerously under-inflated and even punctured tyres. The roadshow visited 24 cities around the UK during the summer, and checked more than 4,500 cars over a three-month period. And what did Michelin find out? It seems UK motorists are still unaware of how important it is to check tyres regularly. Liverpudlians were found to be the worst offenders, with more than half of the cars checked being driven with dangerously under-inflated tyres.
Tyre Pressure Monitoringis essential to ensure all vehicles are safe. By regulary checking a companys fleet of vehicles managers can ensure that they are considering the health and safety of their drivers. A great product that enables you to keep a constant eye on tyre pressure is PressurePro. This device removes the guesswork of determining the correct tyre pressure of your vehicles.
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As Road Safety Week continues, companies should focus on keeping their workforce safe when out driving on company business. Tyre Pressure Monitoring is just one way to keep the workforce safe. By ensuring all vehicles tyres are checked on a regular basis a business can ensure that drivers vehicles are safe and not in danger of a blow out. Also under inflated tyres make a vehicle work harder and less efficiently costing the business more money.
PressurePro is an ideal way to ensure a vehicle’s tyres are running on the correct pressure. This device has sensors that simply screw onto the tyre’s valves . The sensors constantly read the tyre pressure and transmit the pressure reading to a monitor inside the vehicle. When a low or high-pressure condition is sensed, the monitor displays the tyre location with a flashing light and sounds an audible alarm.
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Next week sees the start of Road Safety Week on Monday 23rd November organised by the charitable organisation Brake. The charity is focussing this years campaign on the effect of alchol and drugs on driving and asking drivers to commit to not drink even a drop of alcohol before driving, nor take even a drag on a joint or any other illegal drug.
aide automotive are suppliers of Alcosense, one of the official sponsors of Road Safety Week. This breathalyser is an ideal tool for managers to ensure their driving workforce are not over the legal alcohol limit. It’s impossible to tell how much employees have been drinking the night before they’re due out on the road with a company vehicle.
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Last year the Michelin’s Fill Up With Air campaign showed through their research that 35% of vehicle owners were driving with under inflated tyres. This figure has increased by 1 % already for 2009.
Tyre Pressure Monitoring is a crucial element of health and safety for any business as underinflated tyres cause unecessary expense on vehicles running less efficiently and at the very worse in the event of a blow out they can cost lives!
aide automotive provides two tyre pressure monitoring products. PressurePro, a wireless, tyre air pressure sensor screws onto the tyre’s valve and Air Alert, a simple warning device that blinks when a loss of PSI occurs.
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No matter what the size of your organisation, cash flow is something every business needs to manage. Leasing allows you to keep your cash in the bank to use for more urgent, less tax efficient requirements.
A lease agreement is a contract between the customer (Lessee) and a bank (Lessor). The customer agrees to rent the equipment over a set period until all payments are made.
Here at aide automotive we offer a leasing option on all purchases over £1,000, this can be one single product or a combination of products. All lease payments are classed as rentals and are therefore an allowable business expense. This means that every lease payment can be offset 100% against taxable profits to reduce the tax you pay and therefore saving you money. For example if a company has made a profit of £100,000 in a financial year, but in the same year made payments on a lease totalling £5,000 – they would only be taxed on £95,000 of their profits, therefore saving money! You will typically claim back 22-40% of the payments made on a lease – which is why so many people do it!
The payments you make on a lease would be monthly so for example if you purchased a BrakeCheck, ISOCheck, ABS Tester and TrailerCheck the total cost would be £1,573.00
However if you leased these products from aide automotive you could spread the cost with monthly amounts you’d pay back would be
3 years – 12.89 per week
5 years – 8.53 per week
For more information on using leasing as a payment option please call our sales team now on
0115 845 6471 or visit aideautomotive
One of aide automotive’s clients is more than impressed with the ABS/EBS Sensor Master, an effective diagnostic tool.
After wasting far too much time attempting to locate a fault in one of it’s trucks, they purchased the SensorMaster. After attempting to use other diagnostic tools they just couldn’t find the fault but once they tried the ABS/EBS Sensor Master the fault was located immediately, meaning the problem could be rectified leading to no more vehicle downtime!
Felix Doherty from the Donegal company describes the ABS/EBS Sensor Master as “A very impressive piece of kit and very impressive service after aide automotive pulled out all the stops to make sure it was delivered the next day.”
The ABS Sensor Master is a simple and effective device that checks each EBS/ABS sensor is working effectively. The ideal tool for a varierty of people, from an apprentice to a time served fitter, or a busy workshop. Rapidly locating and clearing the fault can save time and money, rather than calling in a dealer or diagnostic expert.
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