{"id":1951,"date":"2014-07-08T12:53:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2014-07-08T12:53:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:53:37","slug":"tapley-brake-meter-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aideautomotive.com\/articles\/tapley-brake-meter-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapley Brake Meter Retires!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Old Mechanical Brake Tester, Tapley brake meter Now Retired As DVSA Say A Print Out Required<\/h3>\n<p>For almost 100 years\u00a0<a title=\"Tapley Brake Testers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/products\/tapley-brake-meter-decelerometer\/?term=10\">Tapley brake m<\/a>eters\u00a0have been the market leading portable brake testing equipment.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During this time the Tapley meter has been the most recognised international standard decelerometer, and trusted by many leading government authorities around the world to set local brake testing standards.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Results of Tapley Brake meter tests have been accepted as evidence of braking efficiency in Courts of Law throughout the world.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But now it seems the Tapley\u00a0<a title=\"Brake Tester\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/products\/brakecheck-brake-tester\/?term=10\">Brake Tester<\/a>\u00a0may well be retired in the UK, recent guidance from the DVSA now says a brake test must be printed for inspection records.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>With\u00a0<a title=\"Tapley Brake Meters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/products\/tapley-brake-meter-decelerometer\/?term=10\">Tapley Brake Meters<\/a>\u00a0being a mechanical product, there is no option to print out a test. So for those who carry out commercial vehicle inspections an electronic brake tester such as BrakeCheck is now required.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Decelerometers have moved on significantly from the old mechanical brake testers such as Tapley Decelerometer. Being electronic\u00a0<a title=\"BrakeCheck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/products\/brakecheck-brake-tester\/?term=10\">BrakeCheck<\/a>\u00a0has a much higher accuracy and additional information such as average deceleration, a left\/right pull measurement, speed at braking and stopping distance. All tests are time and date stamped.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>aide automtoive offer a \u00a350 discount if upgrading to a\u00a0<a title=\"BrakeCheck\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/products\/brakecheck-brake-tester\/?term=10\">BrakeCheck\u00a0<\/a>and part exchanging a\u00a0<a title=\"Tapley Decelerometer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/products\/tapley-brake-meter-decelerometer\/?term=10\">Tapley Decelerometer<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Contact\u00a0<a title=\"aide automotive\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aideautomotive.com\/article\/www.aideautomotive.com\">aide automotive<\/a>\u00a0to discuss the recent DVSA brake testing guidance and BrakeCheck. &#8211; Call 0115 8456471<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Mechanical Brake Tester, Tapley brake meter Now Retired As DVSA Say A Print Out Required For almost 100 years\u00a0Tapley brake meters\u00a0have been the market leading portable brake testing equipment. During this time the Tapley meter has been the most recognised international standard decelerometer, and trusted by many leading government authorities around the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,5,72,95,12,73,31,33,34,123,28,43,23,99,35],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-aide-automotive","tag-automotive-products","tag-bowmonk","tag-brake-safe","tag-brake-tester","tag-brakecheck","tag-diagnostics","tag-haldex","tag-knor-bremse","tag-simret","tag-trailer","tag-trailer-auto-braking","tag-truck","tag-turnkey","tag-wabco","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tapley Brake Meter Retires! - Aide Automotive Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tapley brake meter is the recognised standard decelerometer. 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