Tyres - Health Risk ?

Think my google must be broken. Maybe because it thinks I am really Bing it's trying to kill me :?
 
Bing said:
The only thing I got from googling was that burning tyres are not very healthy.
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Well if the smell of burning rubber is not very healthy I don't know how I survived my teenage years.. :rofl:
 
y3putt said:
Bing said:
The only thing I got from googling was that burning tyres are not very healthy.
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Well if the smell of burning rubber is not very healthy I don't know how I survived my teenage years.. :rofl:
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You burned the unused ones? :poke:
 
Bing said:
Been a while since I asked a bizarre question, so here goes.. Do your worst :lol:

I had my 224s shod with new rubber today - they look ace, all ready to go on. Though the opposing tread patterns on the Vreds caused me a few minutes of angst with the fitter. Totally weird. Anyway, they are currently stacked in my office due to lack of space anywhere else... This means I can gaze at them every time I go in and out of the room :D

However, they are a bit smelly as all new tyres are, and I've had a reasonably low level but persistent headache since lunchtime - not long after they were brought back in all dressed up.

So my question is - is it possible that the 'fumes' (for want of a better word) are giving me the headache :?
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I have that same problem, 4 wheels with mich pss in my office. Door permanently closed with window open.
My other half days she can taste the rubber, I just told her to stop licking the tyres lol
 
Large plastic trash bags, big enough to hold one tyre each?
That's what we use here, but if your trash disposal method varies then ... some other type of large plastic bag?

EDIT: Just so I'm not misconstrued, I don't mean trash the tyres, just store 'em in the bags if you're going to keep 'em indoors.
 
ZeeFore said:
Large plastic trash bags, big enough to hold one tyre each?
That's what we use here, but if your trash disposal method varies then ... some other type of large plastic bag?

EDIT: Just so I'm not misconstrued, I don't mean trash the tyres, just store 'em in the bags if you're going to keep 'em indoors.
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Actually, that's genius ZeefFore :thumbsup:

Especially as I have just see the weather report for the weekend... Chap used the word 'snow' 5 times. Not in relation to the part of the country I live in, but I don't trust Mother Nature so I may not change the wheels this weekend...

Nice one, happy now :D
 
Bing said:
ZeeFore said:
Large plastic trash bags, big enough to hold one tyre each?
That's what we use here, but if your trash disposal method varies then ... some other type of large plastic bag?

EDIT: Just so I'm not misconstrued, I don't mean trash the tyres, just store 'em in the bags if you're going to keep 'em indoors.
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Actually, that's genius ZeefFore :thumbsup:

Especially as I have just see the weather report for the weekend... Chap used the word 'snow' 5 times. Not in relation to the part of the country I live in, but I don't trust Mother Nature so I may not change the wheels this weekend...

Nice one, happy now :D
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if you wanted to get really posh see if you could find one of those vacuum bags things and remove all the air from them. the bin bag thing is a neat idea as it will also remove them from any direct sunlight (not that 4/5months would make much difference)
 
Believe me, they won't be sitting around for 4 months :D

Great idea for my winters though, so I can store them outside up till I sell the 108s...
 
Or most likely the tyres expired. Did you forget to put them in the fridge? I hear they last even longer in the freezer. :wink:
 
Highly unlikely your headache is due to rubber smell. The HSE guide (EH40) on exposure limits sets a workplace limit of 0.6mg/m3. This relates to the presence of cyclohexane soluble material in the rubber. 0.6mg/m3 may not sound much, but would be a huge quantity if you're talking about fumes (or smell) from new tyres. The real issue would be rubber dust and not the smell. To quote EH40:

"Rubber fume is fume evolved in the mixing, milling and blending of natural rubber or synthetic elastomers, or of natural rubber and synthetic polymers combined with chemicals, and in the processes which convert the resultant blends into finished process dust products or parts thereof, and including any inspection procedures where fume continues to be evolved.

Rubber process dust is dust arising in the stages of rubber manufacture where ingredients are handled, weighed, added to or mixed with uncured material or synthetic elastomers. It does not include dusts arising from the abrasion of cured rubber."
 
Bing, get them on quick & I'll help you bed them in before my Zed goes....
 
Bing said:
ZeeFore said:
Large plastic trash bags, big enough to hold one tyre each?
That's what we use here, but if your trash disposal method varies then ... some other type of large plastic bag?

EDIT: Just so I'm not misconstrued, I don't mean trash the tyres, just store 'em in the bags if you're going to keep 'em indoors.
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Actually, that's genius ZeefFore :thumbsup:

Especially as I have just see the weather report for the weekend... Chap used the word 'snow' 5 times. Not in relation to the part of the country I live in, but I don't trust Mother Nature so I may not change the wheels this weekend...

Nice one, happy now :D
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Nice one guys :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
 
My winter tyres came in huge plastic bmw bags, they fit four wheels, have a roundel, a space to write a description. Ask your dealer for some.
 
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