Home Car Tyre Inflators

sevenhills

Head_The_Ball wrote: »

I have a bicycle track pump for my bicycles that I also use to inflate my car's tyres.

I prefer to use my track pump too, its just a cheap cycle pump from Tescos. I do have a compressor pump that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket, but I find it is very noisy and takes a long time.
The gauge on the track pump is poor.


There are some plug in compressor pumps that are more powerful, those are better if a tyre pressure is way down.

Nick_C

I always check my tyre pressures at home and top up when necessary.

The one time I used the free air at Sainsbury's, the gauge was wildly inaccurate.

No need to spend a fortune on fancy gadgets.

One of these is a fiver from Halfords




And you can pick up one of these from Argos for £7:-


This is MSE after all!

motorguy

GrumpyDil wrote: »

Might be worth keeping an eye out at Aldi as they did one that looks pretty much the same for 15.00 ish

I dont think it was digital though

The advantages of the digital ones are

• Accuracy
• You can set them to inflate your tyre to a certain pressure then stop automatically.

motorguy

wgl2014 wrote: »

I have an older version of this:
Ring RAC635 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00OP0WZGI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_ct5KBbZBTM11Y
Found it to be decent quality and reasonably accurate.

+1

Another vote for this RING pump.

And i've a little digital pressure checker - can be got for around £5 too.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pressure-GLOSSE-Digital-Backlight-Motorcycles/dp/B074QRMFPP/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1536412575&sr=8-4&keywords=digital+tyre+pressure+gauge

Head_The_Ball

sevenhills wrote: »

I prefer to use my track pump too, its just a cheap cycle pump from Tescos. I do have a compressor pump that plugs into the cigarette lighter socket, but I find it is very noisy and takes a long time.
The gauge on the track pump is poor......

I don't rely on mine as the scale is too small for precise accuracy. It is fine for putting about 5 bar in my bicycle tyres but not so easy to read 2.2 bar or 2.4 bar for my car tyres.

I check the car tyres with a tyre pressure gauge that I know to be reasonably accurate before and after using the track pump and adjust as necessary.

I don't worry about precise accuracy in my bicycle tyres (recommended pressures are 3.45 to 5.2 bar which is a wide spread) but I do like to keep my car tyres within about a couple of tenths of a bar of the recommended pressure.

Arklight

I use a footpump like in the picture. It's good exercise.

Gloomendoom

knightstyle wrote: »

If it is for a normal car then those recommended are fine but if for a caravan or other vehicle that needs high pressure then go to a garage.
Our Smart car trailer needs 6bar in the tyres and I have not found a home inflator that will do that more than a couple of times.

I imagine finding tyres, even trailer tyres, rated to six bar is difficult. My trailer tyres are filled to 60 psi and a cheapo Ring compressor has been coping with top-ups for the last 4 years or so

I have a small 240v compressor with a 10l tank that is rated to 120 psi. It cost around £90. Not something that you would normally want to carry in the boot though.

I also have a heavy duty 12v compressor rated to 100psi. The downside is the price... over £200.

knightstyle

Well this is for a 155/70/12 J rated trailer tyre is designed to run at between 80 & 90psi.it is designed as a semi low profile tyre with a very strongly constructed sidewall, hence needing the high pressure, and can only be fitted to trailers.
As I said some caravans use the same tyres and the home compressors cannot cope with this.

sevenhills

knightstyle wrote: »

Well this is for a 155/70/12 J rated trailer tyre is designed to run at between 80 & 90psi.it is designed as a semi low profile tyre with a very strongly constructed sidewall, hence needing the high pressure, and can only be fitted to trailers.
As I said some caravans use the same tyres and the home compressors cannot cope with this.

I recall reading a Health n Safety book that said tyres over 70psi should be inflated inside a wire cage, because if something exploded it could be very nasty.

vikingaero

knightstyle wrote: »

Well this is for a 155/70/12 J rated trailer tyre is designed to run at between 80 & 90psi.it is designed as a semi low profile tyre with a very strongly constructed sidewall, hence needing the high pressure, and can only be fitted to trailers.
As I said some caravans use the same tyres and the home compressors cannot cope with this.

Buy a Kismet antique footpump on eBay. They can be refurbished with new leather seals and were originally used to inflate lorry and Spitfire tyres.