What is the danger of tire contact with fuel and lubricants

In any rules for storing car tires, it is clearly stated that contact between tires and any flammable lubricants should not be allowed. Almost all liquids that can be found in a modern car service or garage are classified as such. Moreover, it is not worth assuming that only gasoline and motor oil can affect tires. The rubber compound of tires consists of many components and ingredients that are necessary to ensure and extend all the operational properties laid down. At the same time, contact with any liquid that is not intended for this purpose can affect both part of these components and all of them at once.

What can change?

As mentioned above, part of the components of the rubber compound of the tire can change their physicochemical properties, and, consequently, the tire may not only work worse, but also become completely unusable.

This can manifest itself as a local change in hardness, as well as the appearance of a fine network of cracks or even the chipping of individual elements.

Protect your tires from contact with any types of fuel and lubricants. Thus, you will extend their operational properties for as long as possible.