Long weekends, road trips to favourite fishing spots or summer get aways suggest long travelling distances, overloaded vehicles and high tyre temperatures. Your tyres, vehicle and family are at risk.

Tyres play a crucial role in the safety of a vehicle. As the only part of the car that physically touches the ground, tyres are one of the key factors affecting a vehicle's handling and overall safety. Proper tyre inflation and maintenance can extend tyre life, increase fuel efficiency and improve vehicle safety.

Long intervals of high-speed driving with low tyre pressure, excess vehicle weight and high temperatures cause additional flexing and stress on the sidewalls and can lead to tyre failure. In addition, tyres with low pressure wear more quickly, degrade the vehicle's handling, lower the vehicle's load-carrying ability and increase fuel consumption. In a worse-case scenario, under inflated tyres can lead to a catastrophic blowout or tread separation.