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My second Ring 'Heavy Duty' air compressor has failed in less than a couple of months. The first one lasted a year then ate itself, this last one looks to have shipped with a wiring fault and keeps blowing fuses in both my cars. Those kind of portable 12V compressors never seem to last long with me.

I want to buy a new one that's good quality, that I can use both at home and at the track and:

- Fits in the boot
- Self powered - Doesn't need mains power or the car power socket
- Is fast
- Has a metal screw thread valve attachment. Not a clamping plastic one.
- Isn't made by Ring!

This one is my favoured so far, I can buy a metal threaded air line for it. But it's pretty expensive and I'd also need to buy a battery and charger for it:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0846KMGDQ/
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Does anyone have any other suggestions?
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Quite a lot of us still using the rx8 one for track and home!
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The person to ask about one of these would be AdamGaltress, he has a Air Compressor in his garage :thumleft:

He used it on my car one Morning =D>
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Post by goodeggbob »

there must be someone on here who has knowledge of inflating things.
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Well, you did ask..
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I have one of these not quite the spec of the one you were looking at but seems to work well none the less.
Does have plastic clamping attachment unfortunately...
(And I already have the batteries.)

I have also used a Michelin plug in one that did screw on and I made that totally portable by using my jump starter to plug it into.(lithium one) that worked well till my frozen fingers dropped it and the display broke 🙄
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I have a li-on jump starter pack that I made a cigarette socket lead for.

This works well with the Mazda oem compressor.

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Most of the LI-ON seem to use the EC-5 connection
I bought this one
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Yep, that's what I made, just from parts I had around.
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nightfire10 wrote:
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Quite a lot of us still using the rx8 one for track and home!
Yeah that mazda one is bloody excellent. I think they're starting to last longer than some of the cars. :lol:

As always this guy gives some pretty solid reviews based on rigorous testing. They might be from Yankee land but as most compressors are made in same factory with a different sticker I'm sure you can find similar.



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So many cars have come without a spare wheel and just an inflater, for at least the last 15 years, that car breakers are coming down with the things, most of which have never been used.

A mate bought a really posh Merc one, in a case compete with still-in-date puncture repair goop, for a fiver.
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Yeah who would have an inflator in the car and never use it....

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Post by New Duke »

Thanks for the suggestions. I still lament that my RX8 didn't come with the Mazda tyre inflator. It didn't come with an owners manual either but I managed to get one from bigpete just before the lockdown... only took 3 years to find one!

Just to give a conclusion; I've bought the DeWalt DCC018N inflator below. It features in the Project Farm video that Duncan linked above. It's expensive at £120 for the bare tool. But it will work off an 18v battery, or 12v car socket, or a mains supply. It's fast and pretty sturdy and the air pressure reading is very accurate, so I no longer feel the need to double check every tyre with my separate accurate pressure gauge.

I didn't have any DeWalt tools (I'm a Bosch and Ryobi fanboi) so decided to also buy a 5Ah battery and charger for it. I've used it on both the RX8 and XF and recommend.
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Just in case anyone is interested there seems to be a newer model of the ryobi one with screw on connector.
https://www.direct-powertools.co.uk/ryo ... 2x31315954

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