air compressor poll

which air compressor for $150?

  • single faster & larger good quality one

    Votes: 17 89.5%

  • 2x smaller and slower reasonable quality ones

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .
I bought one of those fleabay cheapies for $72 delivered and it worked great except the gauge was stuck on 27lb so I sent the supplier a nice note saying it was a waste of money sending it back as he'd paid $29 for freight & could he do something about it as I didn't want to leave bad feedback, I got a very apologetic reply and 4 days later he sent me a complete new unit paying $32 post this time......so he made a total of $11 on the deal and lost 2 compressors, I used the new one for the first time about a week later after a trip to Two Rocks & it worked great except it seemed to be taking too long to pump the tyre up so I got my hand gauge out & checked the tyre, pump gauge read 22lb, hand gauge read 45lb hahaha so this gauge was stuffed too but I wasn't going to complain again......Poor bugger.
But for the price it seems great so far.
 
scooby said:
Here we have cheap compressors that the hardcore wheelers use and swear by them...

https://www.harborfreight.com/12-volt...sor-66399.html

With all four at 10psi I aired them up in about 3min. to 32psi )235/75r15's.
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Well I had to go to Harbor Freight for something else and I picked up one of these compressors. Yes, I would rather spend the money and get a real high quality/dollar one but I just haven't done it. After scooby originally posted about it I did some research and found lots of good reviews about it, and only a few negative ones. It's better than the compressor I had before..which was none, and it looks to be of pretty good quality over a lot of other things you buy at Harbor Freight. I don't plan on just using it for emergencies, I'm going to put it to work. I aired down a bit for my last wheelin' trip and it made a HUGE difference. Testing for real begins in a few weeks at Brown Mountain, but I'll check it out today on Nubaru's slow leaky tire. Stay tuned...
 
Mine has had a fair bit of use now and it's still going great for cheap Chinese, rarely would you go less than 15lb so I figure if it dies it'll just be a slow trip to the servo although putting 60lb in your spare will normally bring your tyres up to a reasonable amount with an equalising hose which you could easily make an adaptor to fit the hose on the compressor end of the cheapy, it's what I did in my old Landcruiser & I'd go from 18lb to about 25lb on each tyre from 100lb in my skinny std split rim spare into my 33x12.5x15's, worth a thought.
 
Put about 8lbs in Nubaru's tire yesterday in about 30 sec., runs pretty solid sounding, no rattles or anything. I can tell right away that the gauge is wrong, reads about 10lbs too high, even the compressor manual tells you that you want to double check with another gauge, so I guess that is to be expected. So far so good...:)
 
Thats good to hear :)

Any time I use my air compressor, I always check it with my digital tyre gauge to be sure :iconwink:

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
I'm going to make a decent hose & ditch the springy one, I've got about 50m of 10mm inside diameter compressor hose and I think I still have the good quality fitting from my Cruiser, bigger the hose the less back pressure so they may inflate quicker too, I know that anything less than 10mm is useless for painting cars etc.
 
There's a couple of modifications I'd like to do to this one, longer power cable so I can have the on/off switch handy at the rear tires, and a shorter non-coiled hose which wouldn't be needed with the longer power leads. I'd also at least like the option of a push on connection to the tire valve instead of the thread on one.
 
First use of the Harbor Freight air compressor and I'm giving it the thumbs up.:ebiggrin: Put 10lbs in all four tires on about 7 minutes with no problems. I must correct my gauge inaccuracy, it only reads about 5lbs too high, but is is consistent.

Brown Mountain was awesome again yesterday, but I didn't really take any pics and I've got so many trip reports from there that I'm not posting another.

I must say though that this is really the first time I've aired down (25psi) and it made a HUGE difference, much better traction and lots more comfortable.:cool:
 
I've used my Super Crap Auto compressor couple of times now, i was expecting it to be slow but its not bad. does the job in reasonable time & was cheap :biggrin:

I always check pressures with a digital gauge no matter how i inflate the tyres...
 
Nachaluva said:
I've used my Super Crap Auto compressor couple of times now, i was expecting it to be slow but its not bad. does the job in reasonable time & was cheap :biggrin:

I always check pressures with a digital gauge no matter how i inflate the tyres...
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Wish I had the same luck. My SuperCheapAuto one NEVER worked :(

I bought another proper one at the 4WD show in Sydney and haven't looked back since.
 
Got the best supercheap auto compressor there is. Got it reeealy cheap on a sale ($99!) and is very good. 72L/min.
 
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