Digital Tyre Inflator

A Digital Tyre Inflator Should Be Top Of Your Shopping List

It's true!

A digital tyre inflator should be absolutely top of every motorists shopping list for addition to their motoring toolbox. Let's face it, I am sure that everyone who has ever had a flat tyre, has gone to look at their spare, only to find that it was flat as well, at some stage in their motoring career.

If you had a lightweight device that would fit into a tiny cubby hole, like a glove box, and was powered by your onboard cigarette lighter, you would be laughing, especially in the face of a dead tyre. Well that is exactly what a digital tyre inflator is and does. It is a potential life saver.

A good tyre inflator is a doddle to use. You can inflate your tyre to the correct pressure in minutes. It is simply a case of setting the correct psi on the gauge, and then letting it rip. You need to know the correct tyre pressure of course, but that is usually a case of digging out your repair manual which will have the information you want in it.

Failing that, just use the Internet. It is ideal for discovering facts like this. Even if you cannot find the answer, just set up the question at somewhere like Yahoo answers and someone out there is bound to know and be able to tell you.

If you have ever had to pump up tyres using a conventional pump, you will find a digital tyre inflator an absolute Godsend. There is so little effort involved on your part, you would hardly believe it. Some units are said to be a little noisy, but for a five minute job to get you out of a hole, I don't think that you can go wrong. I have also heard that some units do vibrate quite a bit as well. If your unit does this, you might need to hold it whilst it works, but again, for a quick and easy result to a potentially disastrous problem, you cannot go wrong with this little gadget.

To conclude, here is a short video that you might find interesting. It shows one particular inflator in action.

How A Garmin Friction Mount Could Save Your Bacon

How A Garmin Friction Mount Could Save Your Bacon

Let me tell you a little story, which will explain how a Garmin Friction Mount could not only save your bacon, but a ton of cash at the same time.

The guy in question doesn't want to be named, but we can call him Roger for the time being. His livelihood has depended for years on the need to drive lots and lots of miles throughout the country. I won't give you any more specifics, because any more detail might make him traceable, and this story is too embarrassing for that.

The need to drive means that Roger historically needed to be able to read maps to get to where he wants to be. Sadly, Roger is not very good at reading maps. So the advent of the Sat Nav was like the first dawn of spring to him and he threw himself wholeheartedly at the new technology.

Unfortunately, Roger is not very technical either, so a GPS caused as many problems for him as it solved. Having got the rudiments right, he could get basic information from the unit, but any tweaking was not something he could do easily. Roger's lack of practical skills also mean that the sat nav was not set on his dashboard properly, and it slid to the floor at an inopportune moment. Roger forgot to stop before retrieving it, and drove straight into the back of 4x4 owned by a local celebrity.

Not one to be downhearted, Roger decided to get some glue and fixed the GPS onto his dash. His first effort resulted in the unit being outside tweaking distance. Roger lived with his own folly, until an altercation with a parked car in mid tweak forced Roger to reconsider his actions.

Having learned important lessons from his previous failures, Roger carefully measured the distance between his seat and the optimum position on the dash for the sat nav, and reset the unit in a better position.

Here is a video that shows off a Garmin friction mount

Success! A whole month went by of successful navigating, before the unit was stolen from his car. His employers were rapidly losing patience, and it was only Roger's offer of footing the bill that saved his job.

In desperation, Roger asked his wife to trawl the net and to see if there was a solution to his predicament; one that would leave him employed, yet that would also allow him to retain a sat nav, which had proved its value to him in the preceding months.

The answer arrived in the form of a Garmin Friction Mount. This little baby only cost a few dollars, yet allowed Roger the freedom to place the Sat Nav wherever he wanted on his dashboard, and yet gave him the flexibility to remove the unit whenever we wasn't in the car.

Roger is happily still employed and is actually working more efficiently as a result of his expensive, painful but otherwise rewarding experience.