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METROLOGICAL CONTROL OF TYRE PRESSURE GAUGES: A CASE STUDY OF KINONDONI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL, TANZANIA
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Monitoring the inflation of tyrepressure plays a significant role in ensuring safety of motor vehicle users both private and public. Accurate measurement of tyre inflation pressure requires a tyre pressure gauge, which is consistent and that complies with other metrological characteristics. Proper metrological control of the manufactured and imported gauges is paramount to measure the accuracy of the tyre pressure. The control of conformity to metrological characteristics for new and those in use is still uncertain, their accuracy is also not known to both users and their customers who inflate pressure in their motor vehicle tyres. This study assessed the legal metrological control of the tyre inflation pressure gauges in Dar es Salaam. The assessment was done by taking a sample of 255 bus drivers, 159 inflation pressure gauge users and also 159 inflation pressure gauges located in Kinondoni. The results reveal that users are aware of calibration and verification of their gauges.
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