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Old January 29th 10, 11:02 PM posted to uk.rec.cars.maintenance
Chris Whelan
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Default Digital Tyre Compressor

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:06:07 +0000, Huey wrote:

"Bill" wrote in message
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Are there any cheapish digital tyre inflators out there (£40) that
come with crocodile clips, internal battery or main adapter instead of
the cigarette lighter adapter?

I wanted to pick one up to blow my tyres up as a lot of the air pumps
at garages near me are not working at the moment. Unfortunately my cars
cig lighter don't work even when the car is switched on.



Get a decent calibrated tyre guage and a decent manual foot pump. Will
last far longer, cheaper and more accurate.


Seconded.

The gauges on the electric inflators are so inaccurate as to be
worthless, and unless you have some physical shortcomings a foot pump is
actually faster.

Chris

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