Hello and welcome back to Here we Tow as we all know tire inflation and tire
maintenance is very important not only on your car and Caravan but also on your
motorhome or camper van the correctly inflated tire is very important because
at the end of the day the only thing that's keeping you on the road is that
small bit of rubber that's making contact with the road surface because of
that this week we're trying out this Maypole Air Compressor it's a 12-volt
handheld tire inflating device we're going to give it a go so if you're
interested to see how this performs stay with us and join us after this
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before you go away on a trip it's really important to always check the tire
pressure on your vehicle or your Caravan an under inflated tire is dangerous it
also increases the amount of fuel you'll use and it makes the drive or the towing
very different to how it really should feel if you're wondering where to find
the tire pressure on your car motorhome or Caravan these are generally found in
several places I know on our car there's a plate in the door and that says the
tire pressure there and on our caravan is on the wheel arch above the tire you
may also find it on the plate on your Caravan and it should generally be
available in the manual or online so make sure you get the right pressure for
the vehicle that you're using Jules and I always check our tire pressure and I
mean always because even though when you arrive at site you may have done it
before you set off when you tow to go home a number of things could have
happened you might have picked up a nail on the way something like that that's
led to a slow puncture so always check initially Jules and I bought a rather
cheap foot pump because we like to save money we found very quickly that was a
really bad idea because Jules broke it he pumped too hard and it bent so we
then tried another electronic air compressor another 12 volt from a
different company sadly that was also neither use nor ornament so because of
that we've decided to spend a little bit more money and try this Maypole product
this recommended retail retail price is 25 pounds although online I have found
them as cheap as 19 pounds and 99 pence so you're gonna be looking at about 20
pounds for this one as I said it's 12 volts and it will inflate tires on cars
caravans motorhomes trailers camper vans balls and also air beds so it will cover
a wide variety of uses Jules was particularly excited about it because it
looks like a green drill and that's how I sold it to him because he did want one
that is cordless this one isn't cordless but the cordless
one was extremely expend in my opinion so we've tried this it has
got a cord which is three meters in length you plug that into 12 volt socket
and off you go to inflate your tires so I've explained what the product is and
why we've decided to give this a try so I think what we need to do is pass this
over to Jules and let him give it a go over to you Jules
thank you very much so the important bits are as has been mentioned it's 12
volts the cable that goes at the bottom is 3 meters long and the actual air hose
itself is half a meter or 50 centimeters so they're the important bits that you
need to know to be able to get down to it
so that's unboxing let's have a look and see exactly what you get inside I really
like the design because it looks like a drill like Karina might mention that so
that's the device itself so that you can see nice and compact nice and sturdy
nice little size so let's get down to the tire and show you exactly what it
does so it's important to mention as we've said before it is wired it all
helps to be held in the bottom here so it is literally as easy as that to get
it out there is a 10 amp fuse that is in a glass fuse that is held in the actual
cigar-lighter part itself and as i'll show you here it is an analogue setting
so you can see in psi and you can also see in bar so depending on how its
recorded it against the side of your Caravan your car your motorhome your
bike whatever you using this to inflate then you can use it and it will give an
accurate reading on the actual analog display itself so let's show you exactly
how this works so it does have a little LED light here which is really useful to
show that you're actually getting power to the device to be able to use it so
again important parts this will go from 0 to 150 psi which is quite a lot
and it will inflate a tire from nothing up to 36 psi it says in three and a half
minutes which is quite quite a quick speed to be fair so as it is always as
I've said half a meter long in relation to your hose
and just to show you exactly what I'm gonna do as the checks that I do always
before I move the Caravan off because the tire's are one of the most
important parts is only use a quick release valve that will go straight on
and then inflate the tire so this is four point five bar I can see that it's
already showing just under four point five
and there you go that's straight back up it was just under four point five so and
you needed a top-up do this one but that's exactly what you get you also get
a nice little handy carrier the little adapters so for inflating footballs or
bicycles or anything like that you get these which are held up nicely here it's
as simple as that so there you go why don't you include it
as part of your kit for your safety check devices including your nose weight
gauge you torque wrench everything like that so handy a little piece of kit
packs up nice and neatly and this will go back into the back of the car where
it lives so thanks very much for watching see you in the next one