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Title: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: Manky Monkey on March 07, 2011, 07:19:43 PM I was perusing the North Hants Tyres website & came across this. Fill your tyres with Nitrogen for 2 quid per tyre. That's a new one on me. Anyone tried it?
http://www.northhantstyres.com/nitrogen.htm Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: TwistedPatience on March 07, 2011, 07:46:15 PM I quote from another forum
"Filling Nitrogen in tyres has NO apparent advantage over normal compressed air! It's a marketing gimmick, ignore it." But I will look in to this a bit more before I agree or disagree with this statement. Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: thebigdogsix on March 07, 2011, 08:05:52 PM What about filling your tires with helium making your car lighter ;D ;)
Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: nabsim on March 07, 2011, 08:34:50 PM It is supposed to keep tyre pressures contant as it isn't affected by the temperature changes we get in the UK on road tyres. Never done it in a vehicle but we used to fill the tyres on a coating plant drying drum with nitrogen due to the heat and it worked on that.
Always been a bit suspect for cars and bikes and stuff especially as air is generally free ;) Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: morrag on March 07, 2011, 10:39:21 PM Many years ago I filled a front tyre with straw, to replace a shredded tube, to get me home, but I wouldn't recomend it! does nowt for the handling........
Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: Mr_G on March 07, 2011, 10:51:01 PM Always been a bit suspect for cars and bikes and stuff especially as air is generally free ;) So is nitrogen if you know where to get it from xD. I have heard about filling your tyres with nitrogen before, Can't quite remember where though. Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: Manky Monkey on March 07, 2011, 11:53:10 PM The blurb on N.H Tyres' site says Nitrogen slows wear to tyre rubber & keeps tyre pressures constant etc -is it really worth worrying about?!
Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: Tony oily bike on March 08, 2011, 05:54:17 AM Maybe if you're someone like McClaren......... ;)
(08/03/11 following Trev's posting below - maybe that should be "McLaren"? Show how impressed I am with F1 !! Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: trev on March 08, 2011, 01:26:07 PM don,t they put it in the massive dumpers in quarries.
Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: nabsim on March 08, 2011, 01:59:12 PM don,t they put it in the massive dumpers in quarries. Think we may have ended up doing that just before I got made redundant, was some gas/air mix but can't remember what. It only reduces tyre wear by keeping constant pressure from what I have seen. If you are one of those people who regularly check and adjust pressures there is less advantage. I know a few raved over it on the car forum I used to belong to but I have never used it outside of a work environment. Thinks its same as owt else, ya pays ya money and tales your chance :) Title: Re: Nitrogen filled tyres? Post by: Cabman77 on March 08, 2011, 08:19:43 PM Somebody tell me if i`m wrong (I`m sure you all will) my murky memory of chemistry lessons tells me that when Nitrogen is heated it actually cools and liquifies, thus cooling the tyre which then heats up a bit again and so on and so on. This could be the reason for better tyre wear claims. Does that sound right. I will happily stand in the corner with the dunces cap on if I`m wrong.
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