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.

Worldwide, 27% of vehicles are driven with the wrong level of air in at least one of the tyres. Having the wrong pressure in your tyres could lead to your insurance being reluctant to pay out in the case of an accident, or in some parts of the world to your being heavily fined or prosecuted.

Make it a habit to check your tyre pressures on a weekly basis. If possible, use the pressure gauge at your local petrol station. They tend to be more accurate, and it is easier to adjust your tyre pressures using their air system. The correct tyre pressures for your vehicle can be found in your owner’s manual, or on the vehicle ID plate. At the same time 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 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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