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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Roller Brake Testing
ABS Sensor Testing – ABS Sensor Tester
Decelerometer Brake Testing – BrakeCheck
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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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Diesel Key the revolutionary mis fuelling device for diesel vehicles has received and ultimate accreditation of a Thatcham approval.
What does this mean?
Diesel Key is the ONLY mis fuelling device to have under taken such a test, rigorous and complex the testing has proved that the Diesel Key meets all quality and motor industry standards. Anyone purchasing the Diesel Key will have the peace of mind of quality and safety!
Thatcham was established in 1969 by British Insurers. The Centre is independently operated with a Board of Directors drawn from more than 30 insurer members.
Thatcham is a not-for-profit organisation. There main aim is to carry out research targeted at containing or reducing the cost of motor insurance claims, whilst maintaining safety and quality standards. Thatcham also work closely with vehicle manufacturers to influence the design of new vehicles. With an aim to improve safety and security, research helps produce designs which limit damage, whilst improving the ease of repair following an accident.
Insurers have seen a dramatic increase in claims for mis fuelling in the last few years and now are looking to solve the problem and reduce claims. With this insurers and Thatcham reviewed and tested the Diesel Key to offer a solution to customers who drive diesel cars.
If you have ever wrong fuelled a vehcile you need to think about Diesel Key today.
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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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