IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO ALL VEHICLE USERS!

Good morning everyone. Many people have been wondering what could be the cause of the incessant tyre burst accidents on Nigerian roads. The major cause is that we put to much pressure in our tyres. How did I know?

I was preparing for a journey, I changed some of my tyres and I asked the vulcanizer that ' what is the recommended tyre pressure? ' He said 50. I said alright, he should inflate it to 50 all round.

When I got to where I was going, I was discussing with some ppl on the issue of the minister that died on the road due to a burst tyre and wonder what could have happened because nobody could imagine a minister would be travelling with expired tyres as many would think is the major cause of tyre burst.

A man ( lived in US for many years ) said that the major cause of tyre burst in Nigeria is that we put to much pressure in our tyres and that each car has recommended tyre size and pressure clearly written on it by the manufacturer. I was surprised and begged him to come and show me where it's written on my car. To my greatest surprise, it's by the drivers door which I enter everyday without noticing it. By the time we checked, the recommended pressure for my tyres is 32! and I just traveled with tyres on a pressure of 50! He took me round his compound and showed me that of the cars (which includes a jeep and a sienna) there, the highest was 32. some were even 29!

He further explained that tyres are made of rubber and expands at high temperature. So, when yu are travelling in the afternoon when the asphalt on the road is hot, the tyre will want to expand. If the pressure in the tyre is to much and wouldn't accommodate the expansion, a burst is likely to happen at that time.

Pls check the recommended tyre pressure for your vehicle and others you know.

As many as possible Nigerians needs to read this.
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God bless you.

God bless thanks a lot

biko add snake there so it can make front page. Thanks a lot.

I don't believe.... I travel with a vulcanizer pressure of 50 from Lagos to akure and nothing happened....

chrisifeanyi:
biko add snake there so it can make front page. Thanks a lot.

hahaha...snake story ;Dfor fp formular

This is a very good info

So, as invaluable as this post is, it didnt make Fp? No wonder somebody say make i just put snake and e go go front page. NL! which way?

God help us

Thanks to Op and the mod for sharing this very much needed info.

Fact!

A lot of Nigerians need thorough awareness on things like this.

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My advice to anyone who has a car is to get his/her own guage and be taking the measurement by himself/herself. The pen-like device roadside vulcanizers are using is dangerously inaccurate. My tyre guage was once given as 40 by a vulcanizer after helping to remove a nail on it, but when I got home I used my very accurate pump/air pressure metre to crosscheck and it read 55 psi. The maximum pressure as recommended on the tyre was 44. That was about 3 years ago and since then i always keep the device in my boot. I check the guage of my tyres regularly in the morning and if I notice a drop I use the pump to top up. I only go to the vulcanizer's place if I have a puncture.

Thanks OP

Is this not the same thread that hit the fp few days ago?

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God bless u bro..will try check for that today..My vulcanizer insisted it must always be 50 or 48.

Another reason is because the tyres are made in China.

Whenever you want to buy tyre just insist that you don't want any tyre made in China.

I think this made front page some days back.

The importance of the information cannot be over emphasised anyway.

Nice info... I will check for friends since I have no car yet

O boy.. Nna nawa... This story on front page again?

Nd to think that each of the story tellers have no source which means that they are telling about personal experiences. But come to think of it again.... Why is it that each of them has a friend that lived in the US for sometime and has the same jeep and Siena?

Life saving info

Majority of the vulcanizers are illiterates. When they say 50, they don't even know what unit it is, whether psi or pascals etc all they know is 50.

Nice info. Hw can one know d standard gauge for lorry and other articulated vehicles. TNX

Try 32 for Lagos Ibadan road ... OYO LOWA

Wowtnx for the info

Hayjaycity:
I don't believe.... I travel with a vulcanizer pressure of 50 from Lagos to akure and nothing happened....

That somebody closes his eyes to cross the express road successfully does not give you a licence to do same. You may not live to share the testimony.
Times of ignorance God has overlooked but now, He wants you to repent and 'sin' no more.

The poster mentioned pressure values without units; psi or bar?

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