Nitrogen for car tyres

[Khare]

Does the UK have any garages at all that have nitrogen rather than air to inflate tyres? In Brazil pretty much ALL of the petrol forecourts will have nitrogen rather than air and in Spain a lot do too, if not then the local tyre fitter will have it. I've never seen them in the UK, mind you some petrol stations charge 20p to inflate a tyre with air, they'd probably charge £2 to use nitrogen 

[dom]

I paid £2 a tyre to get mine filled with nitrogen when they were fitted.

[richw911]

I was told its not worth doing  Is it?

Ive never seen any garage with it 

[Khare]

£2 a tyre fook me  Not worth doing at that price, but if it's free it's deffo worth doing. Constant pressure when hot or cold and no condensation on the inside of the wheel, so no rusty rims or perished inner rubber.

[Thom89]

Some hot countries use nitrogen, as its a far more stable element than air... you'd never know the difference though, waste of time in this country

Thom

[Khare]

In terms of tyre performance is a lot better though Tom. Because pressure is constant you won't suffer from low pressures when the rubber is still cold and wear would be much improved.

[bobotheclown]

if anybody is a member of costco they fill tyres with nitrogen and stick a little green cap in the valve. That's the only place I have seen it done.

[mwep201081]

not worth doing on a normal road car....

[danny_p]

place i do some work for we nitrogen fill everything.  

customers like the sound of it,   IT'S DRY ,  pressure varys less with tempriture, diffues through tyers and wheels slower ( virtualy insignificant unless there porus)   much better for doing temp pressure logs with when doing fine tuneing.  nitrogen cyls are still upto pressure on monday morning the compressor isn't


i've been know to fill tractor tyer with nitogen but for diffrent reasons

littel sh!tty compressor in van take's about a week to blow one up,  littel 10ltr bottel of nitrogen woooosh  job done and dont need to get genny out ether.  

nitrogen is cheep,  even in bottels 50 ltr cyl at 230 bar is about £10 and that fills a lot of tyers.   in bulk tanks its a lot cheeper
 

[Agreeable Slick]

much better for doing temp pressure logs with when doing fine tuneing

This.

It's about the only reason to use nitrogen on a road going vehicle. Otherwise the tyres are never loaded up enough to warrant it, and also, pressure checking the tyres is a 2second job once a fortnight at most.