{"id":5697,"date":"2011-04-13T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2011-04-13T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T13:23:16","slug":"deflation-unsafe-and-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5697","title":{"rendered":"Deflation&#8230; Unsafe and Costly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report in the <span style=\"color: #800000\">Independent says that 70% of European drivers (that includes Britain) are driving on under-inflated tyres.<\/p>\n<p>The survery was done by Bridgestone, who calculated that 2 billion litres of fuel are wasted annually as a direct result. Nearly 10% of cars tested were so seriously under-inflated they were dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>You should always:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>check your tyre pressures regularly<\/li>\n<li>look for any obvious deflation at other times<\/li>\n<li>get the correct information from your handbook or the label in the door frame or under the fuel flap (there will be one somewhere)<\/li>\n<li>DON&#8217;T read it off the tyre<\/li>\n<li>use a reliable gauge &#8211; don&#8217;t trust the garage forecourt meters<\/li>\n<li>measure the pressure cold &#8211; before a journey<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t forget the spare tyre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can pick up pressure gauges from Halfords for around \u00a35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report in the Independent says that 70% of European drivers (that includes Britain) are driving on under-inflated tyres. The survery was done by Bridgestone, who calculated that 2 billion litres of fuel are wasted annually as a direct result. Nearly 10% of cars tested were so seriously under-inflated they were dangerous. You should always: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}