CO2 Inflator for Car Tires

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mandtprice@gmail.com - 05 Jan 2007 22:28 GMT

There have been CO2 inflators for bike tires for ten years now, but I
have never seen any mention of them being used for car tires. Is there
a good reason why you would not use one of these on a car? It would be
nice to have one of these in the tool box rather than carying a hand
pump or trying to find a gas station with a working pump.

Matthew

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Scott Dorsey - 05 Jan 2007 23:01 GMT

>There have been CO2 inflators for bike tires for ten years now, but I
>have never seen any mention of them being used for car tires. Is there
>a good reason why you would not use one of these on a car? It would be
>nice to have one of these in the tool box rather than carying a hand
>pump or trying to find a gas station with a working pump.

Car tires are a lot bigger than bike tires. A CO2 inflator for a car
tire would be a whole lot larger than one used for bike tires.

And, you can get inexpensive 12V air compressors for car tires. They
are easy to carry around and run off the car battery. With bikes, the
available electrical supply and cargo space is more limited.
--scott

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Mike Romain - 06 Jan 2007 04:42 GMT

They are around sort of. They call them 'air pigs'. You refill them at
a gas station air pump.

Mike
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> There have been CO2 inflators for bike tires for ten years now, but I
> have never seen any mention of them being used for car tires. Is there
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> Matthew

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