Tires: Service Precautions

Precautions for Emergency Flat Tire Repair Kit (If Equipped)

WARNING:

The Flat tire repair sealant in the Emergency Tire Repair Kit is harmful to your health.

Be sure to observe the following precautions to prevent your health from being ruined.

- Should you swallow the sealant, get medical attention immediately.
- Keep the sealant out of reach of children.
- Select a place with good ventilation for handling the sealant.
- If the sealant contacts your eye or skin, wash the affected part thoroughly with water and receive medical attention immediately in the event of eye contact.
- Do not discard tire containing flat tire repair sealant as it is. Make sure that flat tire repair sealant is removed from tire.
- Dispose of flat tire repair sealant and waste cloth soiled with flat tire repair sealant as an industrial waste like waste oil.

NOTE:

- Reuse of the valve core and the tire repaired with the sealant can cause air to leak from the tire.
Be sure to replace the repaired tire and the valve core with new ones, referring to Replacement of Flat Tire Repaired with Sealant Replacement of Flat Tire Repaired with Sealant.
- The hole of the tire pressure sensor installed in the tire which is repaired with the sealant can be clogged with the sealant. This will cause the sensor to malfunction.
Be sure to replace the tire pressure sensor with a new one whenever replacing a tire repaired with the repair sealant.

NOTE:

Expiration date of flat tire repair sealant is printed on the container label. If it expires, replace flat tire repair sealant with a new one to ensure emergency flat tire repair.