dont pay for air

jimarnold_2

My local garage was one of the last in the area to offer a free air hose for checking tyre pressures but they've now replaced it with a posh digital one - at £1 a go

I was going to buy a pump - an electric one - but then I had a thought -

My Fiesta doesn't come with a spare wheel - it has a can of goo and an electric pump - which I can use (without the goo) to put air into the tyres

So don't pay for free air

forgotmyname

Very nice of you to offer to visit everyone and pump up their tyres.

Dont expect the same help from others when you get a puncture the goo wont fix though.

Nodding_Donkey

I think the whokle free air concept was doomed when garages changed from a place that sold petrol and serviced cars into a corner shop that just happened to sell petrol. Now they've morphed again into supermarkets that have a few pumps outside and how very dare you want to pay for your petrol at the till.

pogofish

My memory is that foam filler is very much an emergency measure to get you to a place of repair/replacement and should not be relied upon beyond 50-100miles and at a lower speed compared to air-filled tyres because the foam can be prone to damage from frictional heat build up.

Thinking you can run-on with it indefinitely is asking for more trouble IMO.

arcon5

pogofish wrote: »

My memory is that foam filler is very much an emergency measure to get you to a place of repair/replacement and should not be relied upon beyond 50-100miles and at a lower speed compared to air-filled tyres because the foam can be prone to damage from frictional heat build up.

Thinking you can run-on with it indefinitely is asking for more trouble IMO.

Ops not running on goo

facade

The OP was simply being moneysaving-


pointing out that instead of paying £1 for a puff of air people can simply use the little compressor that they might not realise that they had for free.


There was a time when this site was about saving money

interstellaflyer

Our local Sainsburys is free but more often than not, out of order, Tesco is 50p, to be honest I don't mind paying 50p, a decent electric pump that won't fall apart after a couple of uses is £40 ish and I ain't going to buy another car that comes with a repair kit just to pump up the tyres on my car.

wgl2014

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neilmcl

jimarnold wrote: »

My local garage was one of the last in the area to offer a free air hose for checking tyre pressures but they've now replaced it with a posh digital one - at £1 a go

I was going to buy a pump - an electric one - but then I had a thought -

My Fiesta doesn't come with a spare wheel - it has a can of goo and an electric pump - which I can use (without the goo) to put air into the tyres

So don't pay for free air

But you are, via the electricity you're using to power the air compressor, and for most others the cost of buying it in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer to use my own compressor anyway but your argument that it's "free air" is just plain wrong.

motorguy

neilmcl wrote: »

But you are, via the electricity you're using to power the air compressor, and for most others the cost of buying it in the first place.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer to use my own compressor anyway but your argument that it's "free air" is just plain wrong.

+1

You're not paying for FREE air, you're paying for the use of the facility - the electric, the compressor and the equipment.

I had a friend who owned a filling station and he said the abuse those hoses and handsets had to endure was stunning - regularly thrown down when finished with and occasionally driven over meant regular damage was inevitable at a cost of £££s to get it replaced / fixed.

Its why he had to start charging because people simply abused it.

Absolutely no reason though why people cant have a little compressor in the boot - especially since a good RING one costs little over a tenner.

Yes, the paid filling stations ones are fine as an emergency if you're stuck but no one in their right mind would use them as their go to point for checking / adjusting tyre pressures regularly.

Head_The_Ball

At home I use a bicycle track pump to inflate my car's tyres.

I also carry a small 12volt compressor in the boot that has been required once when out and about when I had a slow puncture.

Curiously, I haven't had to top up the air in my tyres for many months.

I check them regularly but they are still at the correct pressure.

My car has a built in tyre pressure monitor and that also shows then as at the correct pressure.

I've never known them go so long without needing a top up.

Perhaps over the last few years most of the oxygen from the original and top up air has migrated through the rubber and the tyres are now mainly full of nitrogen which doesn't migrate as easily through the rubber as does oxygen.