So I wanted to make a quick trip from Lagos to Ogun state this morning and as part of routine check up i decided to check my tyre pressure, pulled out my digital meter and one of the tyres was reading 28psi. Recommended pressure is 33 but I normally inflate to 35. Drove to this vulcanizer (or should I say fukerniser) and told him to inflate to 35. After he was done I checked myself with my own meter and to my surprise if was inflated to 75 psi. Wtf. I told the guy I wanted 35, he said he thought I said 45. Even if I said 45 how is that even close to 75?

So he deflated it and said it was ok, I checked again it was 60. I said it's too much, he deflated again and said that's 35. I now checked with his own meter and to my surprise he was reading the bar unit on his meter instead of psi. So he was taking 3.5 bar to be 35 psi which is actually 55psi. The idiot told me that my car is an SUV that I shouldn't deflate it further. I just told him not to worry, deflated it myself until it got to 35psi.

Pic 1: the meter the vulcanizer was using.

Pic 2: my own digital meter.

Good to know you were circumspect and didn't leave anything to chance. I always double check when dealing with these kinds of people. Never leave anything to chance. Not all of them know what they are doing no matter how"experienced" they might claim to be..

FirstCounsel:
Good to know you were circumspect and didn't leave anything to chance. I always double check when dealing with these kinds of people. Never leave anything to chance. Not all of them know what they are doing no matter how"experienced" they might claim to be..

I learned my lesson when I lost a tyre on the highway. Lots of these vulcanizers don't know what they are doing.

The vulcanizer probably has a target to bring enough people to hell.
Hope you educated him on the proper usage?

Thank God you looked into what he is doing, some people will just balance inside their cars, once the fukernizer is done fùckíng the tyre _they zoom off. No supervision _ no cross checking.

3.5 bar isn't up to 55psi though.
3.5 bar should be 51psi. I stand to be corrected.

Lesson for all, know the recommended psi for your car. Have your own meter, supervise the inflation and reconfirm it was done right.

PaperLace:
The vulcanizer probably has a target to bring enough people to hell.
Hope you educated him on the proper usage?

Thank God you looked into what he is doing, some people will just balance inside their cars, once the fukernizer is done fùckíng the tyre _they zoom off. No supervision _ no cross checking.

3.5 bar isn't up to 55psi though.
3.5 bar should be 51psi. I stand to be corrected.

Lesson for all, know the recommended psi for your car. Have your own meter, supervise the inflation and reconfirm it was done right.

Yea, 3.5 bar is around 50psi, his guage was probably faulty because it showed 55 psi on my end, just like his 4.5 bar (which he thought was 45 psi) was showing around 75 psi on my side.

greenhulk:


Yea, 3.5 bar is around 50psi, his guage was probably faulty because it showed 55 psi on my end, just like his 4.5 bar (which he thought was 45 psi) was showing around 75 psi on my side.

Most of them use very faulty gauges.
This is a serious issue, mistaking 4.5 for 45! Hah!

This deserves front page, someone taught him to read it like that, and someone taught whoever taught him. Meaning, there are so many of them out there.

I'm amazed, your tyre even withstood such over-inflation.

Any slight temperature increase / road bump and the tyre would have exploded.

cyborg123:
I'm amazed, your tyre even withstood such over-inflation.

Any slight temperature increase / road bump and the tyre would have exploded.

I tell u, and to think of the fact that he must have inflated many tyres like that. I think there need to be regulatory bodies that will enforce this and educate people about recommended tyre pressures. Last month I traveled to Benin with my brother inlaw, we went in my car. On our way I guaged my tyres and he was surpsied when I said I inflate my tyres to 35psi. He said he normally inflate his own to around 50-55.. I showed him the door sticker where it says 32psi and he said those things don't work in Nigeria.

lalasticlala

greenhulk:


Yea, 3.5 bar is around 50psi, his guage was probably faulty because it showed 55 psi on my end, just like his 4.5 bar (which he thought was 45 psi) was showing around 75 psi on my side.

Very true and correct

Buhari Why

No regulatory agencies to enforce laws or channel news to end users in this regard. Nigeria as a country is brainless.

nawa ooooooooooo

no way

is alright
but most Nigerians don't give a Bleep about the recommended pressure of their tyres

OP, you sha don use scope advertise your product

This one WEAK ME

Where can one buy these digital meters?

Stop patronizing road side vulcanizers if you must then watch them carefully

Go to any well equipped fillings station for your tires

How much are you selling the digital meter

maxiuc:
Stop patronizing road side vulcanizers if you must then watch them carefully

Go to any well equipped fillings station for your tires

Well equipped ??

Lemme buy my own car first

Then I will comment on this matter

One thing about Nigeria vulcanizer is that most of them don't know the difference between bar and psi. And for you Op, psi is imperial measurement, while pascal/bar is SI unit. Hence you should have bought a gauge that measures in bar since you know Nigeria uses SI unit. Knowing that your guage measures in psi, you should have done the conversion for him, and tell him to inflate to 2.4 bar which is equivalent of 35psi. Try educate him instead of making him look foolish. You can't assume that a vulcanizer that hasn't been to walls of college knows the conversion factor of psi to bar

God help us all. Something else which even supposedly good fuckernisers do is to just inflate your tyres to the MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE pressure which is inscribed on some tyres; there's a reason the manufacturers put in a recommended pressure and a maximum allowable. The right practice is to inflate to the recommended pressure and not the maximum.

Op, The guy is a fuckernizer just as you earlier mentioned.. so, next time go to a vulcanizer for your dear life's sake........ he couldn't even read his own meter.... na wa o....... quacks everywhere ....... iranu.

lollypeezle:
OP, you sha don use scope advertise your product

R u kidding me? Not advertising anything but I think every car owner should have a tyre guage and double check whenever they inflate their tyres at the vulcanizers. Lots of accidents that happen in this country are caused by burst tyres and majority of these burst tyres are caused by potholes, expired tyres and over inflated tyres.

Abeg where can I get a tyre guage? Like the second picture you posted. And price also.

IT IS A NATION WIDE THING THEY ARE ALIKE

greenhulk:
So I wanted to make a quick trip from Lagos to Ogun state this morning and as part of routine check up i decided to check my tyre pressure, pulled out my digital meter and one of the tyres was reading 28psi. Recommended pressure is 33 but I normally inflate to 35. Drove to this vulcanizer (or should I say fukerniser) and told him to inflate to 35. After he was done I checked myself with my own meter and to my surprise if was inflated to 75 psi. Wtf. I told the guy I wanted 35, he said he thought I said 45. Even if I said 45 how is that even close to 75?

So he deflated it and said it was ok, I checked again it was 60. I said it's too much, he deflated again and said that's 35. I now checked with his own meter and to my surprise he was reading the bar unit on his meter instead of psi. So he was taking 3.5 bar to be 35 psi which is actually 55psi. The idiot told me that my car is an SUV that I shouldn't deflate it further. I just told him not to worry, deflated it myself until it got to 35psi.

Pic 1: the meter the vulcanizer was using.

Pic 2: my own digital meter.

Everything in this country is not working. I mean everything!

That's not a faulty issue but rather a mistake frm his part. Can't u see he multiplies pressure in bar by 10 to arrive at his own psi . Takes 3.5 bar for 35 psi, 4.5 bar for 45 psi


And 1 bar = 14.5 psi approximately

PaperLace:

Most of them use very faulty gauges.
This is a serious issue, mistaking 4.5 for 45! Hah!

This deserves front page, someone taught him to read it like that, and someone taught whoever taught him. Meaning, there are so many of them out there.