How to check tyre pressure

Title: How to check tyre pressure

Duration: 1:11 minutes

Description:

A video to show someone how to check the tyre pressure of a car

Shell Motoring Tips - How to check a car tyre pressure – Transcript

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Atmospheric, storytelling and soft background music; the same music continues throughout the video.

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Screen starts with a white backdrop as the shell lock-up enters from the right of the picture while the video title text slides into the middle of the screen.

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How to check tyre pressure

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Looking after your tyres, particularly tyre pressure will help maintain your car’s health.

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Screen transitions to a page that lists the product names and pictures detailing exactly what a user will need to be able to perform the task of checking a car’s tyre pressure.

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What you’ll need:

• Car manual
• Tyre pressure gauge
• Gloves

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Here’s what you’ll need. Your car’s manual, a tyre pressure gauge and a pair of gloves.

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Page transitions to a white screen with text instructing the viewer that this is the first step of the process.

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1 – Get ready

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The screen transitions to a shot of the front of a red car with the car’s manual open on the bonnet with a mechanic wearing red gloves flicking through the pages. The screen then changes to the back of the car where the fuel cap is situated. The mechanic proceeds to open the fuel cap to see a sticker with writing on it on the underside of the metal latch. Then the screen shows a close up shot of the writing before the mechanic closes the latch with his right hand.

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Find out the right tyre pressure

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Before you start you need to know what the tyre pressure should be. This information will be displayed in the owner’s manual or located on a sticker somewhere on the car – usually on the car door, door frame or on the inside of the fuel filler cap.

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2 – Check tyre pressure

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There is a close up shot of the red car’s back right tyre as the mechanic bends down to remove the dust cap from the wheel.

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Unscrew the dust cap from the tyre valve 

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Remove the dust cap from the tyre valve. Keep it safe as they are easy to lose and you’ll want to screw them back on once you’re finished.

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The mechanic continues to place the tyre pressure gauge’s stem onto the tyre valve, pressing in hard to get a correct reading on the dial which sits comfortably in the palm of his left hand.

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Attach the tyre pressure gauge 

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Place the tyre pressure gauge onto the tyre valve stem.

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The audience can see him holding the tyre pressure gauge in his left hand checking the reading.

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Check the tyre pressure reading

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Firmly press the gauge down evenly on the valve stem to check the tyre pressure reading. Remember to repeat the process on the remaining tyres.

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The screen transitions quickly 3 more times to show the mechanic checking the other 3 tyres too.

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Check all tyres 

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If the tyre pressure is too low or high on any tyre, visit a Shell station and use our air pumps to adjust it to the correct pressure.

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Finally the mechanic screws in the dust caps back into place of where he found them. He can then be seen standing up and turning around to place the tyre gauge on a work bench at the side of the room.

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Reattach the dust caps

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Once all your tyres have been fully checked, you can be sure you’ll enjoy a safer and more comfortable drive.

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The screen transitions into a completely white summary screen in which text slides into the middle of the shot from right to left. This text details a quick two-step summary of how to complete this task of checking the tyre pressure for a car.

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Summary:

1. Get ready
2. Check tyre pressure

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The screen transitions into another completely white summary screen in which text slides into the middle of the shot from right to left that states the sign off caption:

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Here’s to better journeys

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The final transition is to a white screen with the Shell Pecten already present in the middle of the shot. The Shell Go Well caption slides in from left to right, sitting under the logo at the centre of the screen.

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Shell Mnemonic plays lasting only 2 seconds

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Go Well