is this a good unit for adding air to car tires?
1088122
It is a good all around unit for the typical homeowner. It it excellent for inflating tires. The unit is easy to carry and the tank has adequate capacity so that you can pump up your tires even if you are away from an electrical outlet. Very quite and well built.
1302050
I use mine for brake and carb cleaner. You put 90 psi from an aircompresser in it.
444390
No. The average air pump that fills car tires can only handle about 150 psi This needs 1500 to 3000 psi of pressure.
1275524
I have used this unit on my car tires with no problem. I just had to thread or screw on the hose to the tire valve and then turned on the air compressor. I found it easier to connect the hose when I removed the rubber hood. Yes, air does escape when you unscrew it so I put in a couple of pounds extra before I unscrewed the hose. BTW, this unit is very quiet. You could air your ties at 6AM and not bother the neighbors.
2139718
Yea, I read all kinds of reviews before I bought this one. I think it is great for the price and does a very good job. I last used it this summer to air my tires back up from 15lb to 38lb and it took seconds of each tire. I did not time it but I would say 15 to 20 seconds each tire and if you are doing less of a big gap in LB's then even quick time. I love mine.
1384658
It works fine for anything with a standard tire valve, it comes with adapters to air up footballs, air mattresses...ETC. I have a big air compressor at home, but use this for the smaller jobs, it works great for car and motorcycles tires. a little slow but that is good. the gauge on the pump is accurate as well. This is a handy item
1058973
Yes. This is the only tire pump I have for all my vehicles, and it works fine for such purposes. As a kid growing up, we would use bicycle pumps such as these to pump up tires when we had flats and we were on the road, and our spare needed air. A bicycle pump will pump up any tire, regardless of size, as long as the valve stems on the tires are the same as the valve stems of the bicycle pump. Since bicycle tires, car tires, and even semi-truck tires all have the same valve stems, you may use a bicycle pump to pump up any of them. Just make sure the intended PSI of the tire you are pumping up is not greater than the PSI rating of the pump you are using. In this case, the bicycle pump is rated at 70 PSI, more than enough for the average car tire (somewhere around 35ish PSI is average for a car, although it varies from tire to tire). Note when pumping up a car tire, pump it up to the PSI recommended on the specifications sticker located on the driver's side door panel, NOT the max psi listed on the tire. Inflating a tire to its maximum rating will cause it to wear out super fast, and will not handle ideally.
333583
This is the best of several air pumps I have had in the past. I have no idea if it would work for that application. It has plenty of capacity and multiply types of connections. I have used it inflate tires but nothing else.
1970273
It should work fine for that. And while you could set the regulator down to the pressure you want in your tire, you would better off leaving the regulator at full pressure and using a manual triggered tire inflater (with pressure gauge) at the end of your air hose. Tire inflaters like this often have built-in air bleeder buttons too, allowing you to instantly release excess pressure if you pump in too much.
1569279
It should work IF you are not using a great volume of air. I use this with a nail gun (brad and finish nailer and staples) as well as adding air to auto tires (which does use quite a volume of air).
537319
This is a sufficient compressor to inflate auto tires, but you will need to have a tire inflator for it.
1477784
Yes you can air up tires. I've used it to air up my truck tires and car. I have also used it to air up my kids toys, but be careful. It can fill the toys up very fast.
1727362
I returned mine. I originally bought it for my bike tires and it was the wrong type of air pump. So it might be the wrong type for you too.
1482856
Possibly since it blows air and has has several types of attachments for stuff like tires, inner tubes, and balls, but don't think it would be a good choice since it plugs into your automobile lighter outlet and not an electrical outlet.
1569381
No, it is an attachment to the air compressor. It works well inflating automobile tires. One thing that is annoying is that the hose going to the tire does not rotate and gets twisted up in certain positions.
1711659
Yes, although it doesn't move a whole lot of air on the pumping, you could pump tires up with it. It just might take a while though but it's really compact. I recommend getting the CO2 cartridge kits. They're really compact and much faster.
1473914
This compressor was made strictly for airing up tires. It has battery clamps to car battery, no converter to run off an outlet. The valve stem tool does not come off, not interchangeable with other tools. It will inflate a car tire in under 2 minutes, so for the intended purpose it works great. I've not tried it on smaller things so don't know the ratings of cfm. I suppose a person could custom modify it if one knew how to attach fittings.