Tire keeps deflating

[effowe]

So I have had problems with my tires either slowly deflating or going flat. This has happened often on different tires and I think it has to do with the parking lot I work in, but that's beside the point.

This time my tire is deflated, but not fully flat. I don't want to go through the trouble of putting the donut on every time this happens, so I want to be able to inflate it. I saw the AAA guy using a small battery powered one. What are these called and where can I pick one up?

 

[franksta]

Air compressor. They make some that you can run off of your cars 12V cigarette lighter outlet but they take a long time to put any significant amount of air in your tires. Can be bought at Wal-Mart or AutoZone.

 

[Vette73]

How about fixing the problem of lose of air then patching the sympton of adding air all the time?

 

[exdeath]

Just take the tire into a Pep Boys or Sears or some place like that, they usually charge like $12 or something to locate and fix a leak and they can do it in like 15 minutes or less while you wait if they aren't busy.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I'd get the problem fixed so that you don't have to constantly inflate your tires.

Still, even a bike pump would do the job...it would just take longer.

 

[nakedfrog]

A tank that will hold a decent amount of compressed air runs about $20.

 

[Thump553]

Bent rims? Or if you live in a place where the temperature can drop fast and down to pretty cold this can happen-it happened to me a few times on bitter nights way up north. I'm at a loss as to how it could be the parking lot (unless little urchins hang around there, or it's littered with nails.

Anyway, I second the reccommendation for a plugin pump from Walmart. You should have one anyways. Get the kind that doubles as an emergency light. And if the tire is leaking, get it fixed-it may even be free where you got the tires (road hazard warranty).

 

[biggestmuff]

Does the same thing happen after parking your vehicle overnight at home?

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: exdeath
Just take the tire into a Pep Boys or Sears or some place like that, they usually charge like $12 or something to locate and fix a leak and they can do it in like 15 minutes or less while you wait if they aren't busy.

if some whippersnapper is manually deflating the tires in the parking lot, that won't help