Has Anyone Used the Air Compressor?

[Discount Tire]

If your tire has a leak, you'll want to get it professionally patched. Discount Tire can do this for you, for instance, as long as the hole is far enough away from the sidewall. Otherwise, the tire should be replaced.

Thank you for the referral, Jonnathan!

@Pedro Diaz If there is a puncture and deemed repairable, we're happy to help and will do so at no charge!

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[Kamuelaflyer]

Love it that this thread on tire inflators devolved into a discussion of English pronunciation shifts just due to a Brit posting

To be fair, @Jimrpa made his comment about the language we all speak over two years ago, I just got around to derailing the thread when @Pedro Diaz posted with his smoking hot inflator. No thread around here is too old to be immune from being derailed and driven off into the weeds.

 

[Theolddog]

I have 12,000 miles on my 2023 GT AWD with 245/45 R20" summer tires by Pirelli. In cold weather in NJ, I've had front wheel shaking noises coming out of the garage and dealer couldn't find the cause. When I drove to Florida the problem went away. So when I get back to NJ in 2 months I'm going to ask the dealer for all-season tires as many posters have suggested that solved their same problem.
However, to keep on air compressor subject: I've had 4 flat tires in NJ, due to screws driven into the treads! I used the supplied air compressor to refill the tire each time to get me to Mavis Tire in Morristown who plugged and or patched internally each flat tire. I never had to use the leak-repair-juice feature of the air compressor since it ruins the tpms sensor. Anybody having excessive flats on summer tires? My last car was a Ford Explorer with 36,000 miles over the same roads on all season tires and never had a flat!
In Florida, I hit a pothole on a main road's right turn lane approaching an intersection of 2 asphalt-paved roads at 30mph & fairly quickly, the tire pressure system reported a loss in pressure of the front right tire. I was able to use the air compressor to fill up the tire enough to get to Tire Kingdom. They found the tire had a 1" break at the sidewall at the edge of the wheel rim, where the pothole sharp edge damaged the tire. 30 minutes and $240 later, they had mounted a Firestone all-season tire. Again the air compressor saved me the cost and lost time of a tow truck!
So my next question is: Should I "bite the bullet" and get the other 3 tires replaced with all-season tires? And see if there's any chance for warranty reimbursement? Thanks. Sorry for being so windy...

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