Asbestos in cars

[Niall]

You have to be inhaling the 0.6cubic cm's for 10 minutes (from memory) before the effects begin to cause a damaging effect. The chances of that whilst working on our cars are slim. So aside from a good topic, I wouldn't say there's any rush to go buying masks...

Rich im not sure where you got them figures from because the quantities of asbestos in a product are measured in f/ml and also, it affects everyone differently as i said above when i made the smoking point. If your lungs were much smaller than mine (probably bearing in mind im about 14ft taller than the average man) then they will have less of a capacity than mine meaning if we were both exposed to the same amount for the same period of time, the chances are you will suffer before i will!