WARRINGTON motorists have been named and shamed for neglecting their tyre pressures.
A study has shown drivers in the town to be wasting nearly £5 million a year on fuel and putting lives at risk in the process.
Worse still, the research has also shown Warrington’s drivers are emitting an additional 10,400 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere through driving with under-inflated tyres.
Driving with the wrong tyre pressures can put more stress on the vehicle’s steering and suspension components and cause it to burn extra fuel. It can also negatively affect the vehicle’s handling making it unstable and increasing the risk of accidents.
A team of experts from Michelin is visiting Warrington today (Wednesday) giving advice on tyre maintenance, checking pressures and giving away a glove-box guide to safer tyres and advice on how to save fuel and cut CO2 emissions.
They will be at Total Fitness, Winwick Road, Warrington from 10am to 5pm.
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In their defence have you tried to find a garage in Warrington with working inflators.
it took me FIVE stations to find one last time I needed air (march ish). went Tesco winwick road to Esso long lane to Sainsburies, Texeco finaly to BP at Birchwood I gave up.. All faulty now thetres a name and shame.
So you can name and shame a motorist who pays road tax, insurance and has a completely legal vehicle for not having the right amount of air in his tyres (which despite what they say above is not an offence as there is no indication of at what point an under or over inflated tyre becomes unfit for the use it is being put to) but you can’t name some 15 year old thug who mugs an old lady?? Mixed up Britain or what!!??…. and where have they been named and shamed exactly? as the article doesn’t say