Who said air is free?

CaptainKidd

dickydonkin wrote: »

That argument is a silly one. If you say so.

Flat tyres are not about maintenance - it can happen to old tyres as well as new ones at anytime and anywhere. Even well maintained cars break down but tyre failures generally create reactive measures and no amount of planned preventative maintenance will guarantee that a tyre or its valve will not fail. If a valve or tyre fails then what good is a pump at a petrol station

What about Truck Drivers who may develop a soft tyre that they may not have been aware of but only realised when the truck was fully freighted? I can assure you from personal experience that it does happen - regularly. When did truck drivers come into it? Its bad enough getting a car into some of the pump spaces never mind a truck, you would also need some length of air hose

I can just imagine some poor trucker attempting to blow up his super singles with a foot pump or one of those electronic pumps as described earlier. Again who mentioned truckers


People may be driving cars that are not their own i.e. company cars or a friends/relatives/hire car - I suspect that many of these won't carry pumps, spare bulbs etc. Does that make the drivers of those vehicles irresponsible?
Of course not. Yes it does, its upto you to check the car you are driving is road worthy and safe, i.e has a spare. Its also upto to the driver to make sure everything else is in order like mot, tax insurance as ignorance is no excuse.





Because if a deflated tyre occurred to the drivers described above, then it is a safety issue. yes its a safety issue but its not the garages fault or problem so dont try and blame them for you either not wanting to pay or not having change to pay

Certainly I would pay 50p (grudgingly) to blow up a tyre as I owe it to my own safety as other road users - and a 'token' charge is fine - but just as supermarkets provide free shopping bags to customers (well most do) would it really break the bank to provide free air as well? - Every little helps.times change

Look on the bright side, it was free for years and then only 20p for year so its went up a little big deal, either buy a compressor or carry spare 50p with you in the car.

P.s the Ring Automotive RAC600 is a good little comp for the price

mikey72

pitkin2020 wrote: »

........................ and i'm not going to drive the other side of town wasting fuel to just save 20P. Plus their free air machine is usually out of order 4 days out 7.

I can drive nearly a mile for that.

pitkin2020

mikey72 wrote: »

I can drive nearly a mile for that.

For what 20p?? If so by my calculation to save 20p on air it will cost you £1.60, 4 miles there and 4 miles back. I use the tesco one which is 20p but its on the main road by home so I have to go past it no matter which way I go.

mikey72

I use a footpump at home. I'm too tight to even pay the 20p.

chuckley

and it only gives u like 1 minute. Daylight robbery man.

pitkin2020

chuckley wrote: »

and it only gives u like 1 minute. Daylight robbery man.

and you only get 1 litre of diesel for £1.31 also daylight robbery but whats your point?

Jeff_Bridges_hair

Why would air be free? They need to provide a machine and electricity to let you put air in your tyres.

You say its a safety hazard - thats YOUR responsibility not theirs. If you dont like paying go buy a pump.

Wig

Jeff_Bridges_hair wrote: »

Why would air be free? They need to provide a machine and electricity to let you put air in your tyres.

You say its a safety hazard - thats YOUR responsibility not theirs. If you dont like paying go buy a pump.

Why not charge an entrance fee to the forecourt & parking fee at the pumps, 20p paper towel dispenser, £1 for a diposable cardboard bucket automatically filled with water to clean your windscreens.

As I have said earlier the machines in UK are over complicated when all you need is a £5 length of hose a £2 clip and a metal box which has a needle gauge no electricity required, except to power the underground compressor which is minimal power, minimal maintenance.

I used to get the frustrated when the Tesco free pump was out of order because the over complicated huge hand held wand with integrated pressure guage had yet again broken and the manager would say these things cost £80 - £120 and they haven't given us a new one. and I'm thinking....... they can do it in France so cheaply and efficiently but here we have to have technological gadgets which break. Then Tesco introduced the free m/c with the digital display and the bleeping and integral compressor! ....and then they broke too.....Then came the coin operated version.

!!!!!! why be so complicated?

Kilty_2

I think you'll find Wig that the electricity required to power a compressor is a lot more than a digital gauge etc, so it's hardly negligible. Just saying.

It's well known that petrol retailers especially supermarkets make very little on the fuel itself.

Flyboy152

Sorry Kilty, but they are he ones who are continuing to drive the price up and up. There are a number of petrol stations in our vicinity and the cheapest one is a small independent, I can't see him paying less for his stock that the big groups and supermarkets.