Nitrogen in your tyres - Good idea ?

[2011G6E]

Originally Posted by data_mine

Fit the tyre in an pure nitrogen environment.

Great idea! Of course there's a few small technical difficulties that are easily overcome...but if you could do it in a large enough room it would be easily done. Of course you'd have to have some oxygen present for the workers to breath, and to keep costs down for the dealer you'd want to do away with costly breathing apparatus or suits with an air supply. Maybe if you added a bit of oxygen to the rich nitrogen mixture, it would still give you the benefits of nitrogen filled tyres, but with a bit of oxygen mixed in...surely that small 18% or so of oxygen needed so the workers could breath normally wouldn't matter in the tyre...and you'd still be getting nearly 80% nitrogen in the tyre.

Hmm...how could you fill your tyres effectively in an environment with 80% nitrogen and 18% oxygen...

...Oh wait...