If you pay for 5 minutes to inflate your tyres - how long would you expect to inflate them for?

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Petrol Station Tyre or Tire Inflation Machines Are A MASSIVE SCAM!

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Tl;dr

Sainsbury’s: 5m9s/5m= extra 10 seconds
BP 2: 5m9s/5m= extra 9 seconds
Tesco: 4m56s/5m = 4 seconds under
Shell 1: 4m38s/7m = 2m/22s under
BP 1: 2m/5m = 3m under
Shell 2: 3m35s/7m = 3m25s under


Let the suing commence :mad::p
 
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I'd advise against anyone using them anyway for the simple fact that they're often wildly inaccurate. Electric pumps of a reasonable quality and accuracy aren't expensive.
 
AWPC said:
Buy your own portable pump! It pays for itself in a few mins literally!!! I recently got scammed by a local Shell garage for £6 for about 30 secs of air then the machine stopped working!
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£6? What? Did you try and stuff a note in?

They're like 20p aren't they?
 
Classic Blue Theme said:
I see taxi drivers use them all the time which makes sense, but also absolutely no sense. Lol.
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I might be wrong but from what I've seen I believe the local taxi drivers and the boy racers drifting around the supermarket car parks at night here are buying up end of life tyres from one of the local used car dealers - which is probably why they always seem to be queued up at night to use the inflator :s
 
I try and go behind someone else so when they finish machine is still running :D

Sorry not sorry

Happens quite a lot at my local

I need to get a new compressor as mine is broken
 
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Rroff said:
I might be wrong but from what I've seen I believe the local taxi drivers and the boy racers drifting around the supermarket car parks at night here are buying up end of life tyres from one of the local used car dealers - which is probably why they always seem to be queued up at night to use the inflator :s
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At first read I thought you said you've seen taxi drivers drifting around supermarkets!
 
sigma said:
Didn't check your tyres and you don't have a pump with you and you're not near home. Doesn't seem that implausible.
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I don't religiously check my tyres but I always eyeball them (sure that would only detect a major problem) before setting off, very rarely don't, at a minimum I keep a cheapy "AA" inflator in all my vehicles and usually have my battery one as well unless I forget to change it over/too lazy. (ED)T: As per post above it is possible for the inflator to break but meh).

One of my colleagues recently mentioned he got pulled up at the MOT for low pressures - he'd been driving around, probably for months, with one tyre below 20 PSI and 3 in the 20s, supposed to be 32 and "hadn't noticed anything was wrong".
 
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Rroff said:
I don't religiously check my tyres but I always eyeball them (sure that would only detect a major problem) before setting off, very rarely don't, at a minimum I keep a cheapy "AA" inflator in all my vehicles and usually have my battery one as well unless I forget to change it over/too lazy.

One of my colleagues recently mentioned he got pulled up at the MOT for low pressures - he'd been driving around, probably for months, with one tyre below 20 PSI and 3 in the 20s, supposed to be 32 and "hadn't noticed anything was wrong".
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I think you've answered your own question with this post :) I imagine 80% of drivers never check their tyres.
 
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sigma said:
I think you've answered your own question with this post :) I imagine 80% of drivers never check their tyres.
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It was somewhat rhetorical :p

EDIT: To be fair I've only really got in the habit of it because part of my job is briefing/debriefing our drivers at work part of which is doing vehicle checks, that and I do quite a bit of driving at night in all weather/remoter parts.
 
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Rroff said:
It was somewhat rhetorical :p
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Sainsburys used to be free so I'd use it often but then it was broken more often than not and also I got a bit sick of idiots in the queue for it, think the final straw was someone changing a wheel at the pump, stupid **** could have moved forward, there was plenty of space...
 
DJMK4 said:
I try and go behind someone else so when they finish machine is still running :D

Sorry not sorry

Happens quite a lot at my local

I need to get a new compressor as mine is broken
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I actively get out of the way so people can jump in behind me because I'm a top bloke
 
I use these pumps at garages, never had a problem with them tbh, always had enough time to inflate all tyres. i'd trust 1 of these machines more than a £10 home pump, i mean, imagine the suing that would occur if these garage pumps were inaccurate and caused a crash, surely they're accurate as i've never heard of such a thing.
 
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