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karohemd(updated with better description of machine from hell)
Just went to two petrol stations and then gave up.
Both had this machine attached to a wall with a long hose and a valve at the end you put on the tyre valve, BUT both the gauge AND the buttons to increase/decrease the pressure are ON THE MACHINE ITSELF. The only way to do this on your own is by driving the tyre you want to check directly in front of the machine so you can reach backwards to change the pressure, then move the car so the next tyre is in front etc.
Which dim-minded fuckwit came up with that outrageously stupid idea? If I see them, I give them the hose to stick where the sun doesn't shine and apply full pressure...
In Germany, I'm used to portable pressurized containers you take around your car to each tyre in turn. Very efficient and hasslefree, unless you have to put a lot of air in meaning that you have to "recharge" the container (which takes about 30 seconds).
In this technology-forsaken country I've seen pressure hoses with the gauge and release valve attached in front which works as well but is a bit clunky as sometimes the hose isn't long enough to reach all around the car.
But these things just take the mickey.
Just went to two petrol stations and then gave up.
Both had this machine attached to a wall with a long hose and a valve at the end you put on the tyre valve, BUT both the gauge AND the buttons to increase/decrease the pressure are ON THE MACHINE ITSELF. The only way to do this on your own is by driving the tyre you want to check directly in front of the machine so you can reach backwards to change the pressure, then move the car so the next tyre is in front etc.
Which dim-minded fuckwit came up with that outrageously stupid idea? If I see them, I give them the hose to stick where the sun doesn't shine and apply full pressure...
In Germany, I'm used to portable pressurized containers you take around your car to each tyre in turn. Very efficient and hasslefree, unless you have to put a lot of air in meaning that you have to "recharge" the container (which takes about 30 seconds).
In this technology-forsaken country I've seen pressure hoses with the gauge and release valve attached in front which works as well but is a bit clunky as sometimes the hose isn't long enough to reach all around the car.
But these things just take the mickey.
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Date: 19/6/03 02:19 pm (UTC)Not sure what the problem at those stations was - did you ask the attendants? (*grimace* if they even speak english!)
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Date: 19/6/03 02:23 pm (UTC)The problem is that you can't reach the controls when you're at the tyre, because the hose won't stick on the valve (you have to apply constant pressure) so you could get up, go around the car and change the pressure on the machine.
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Date: 19/6/03 03:38 pm (UTC)Um...I don't know how exactly it works, but whenever I've seen![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cryx do her tyres (and she does 'em a lot cos 2 of them have punctures), she enters in the desired pressure and then attaches the doodah to the valves. It then subtracts or adds air until it's at the right pressure.
Seems like an OK way to do it.
Aaaaah
Date: 19/6/03 03:47 pm (UTC)Hm, nobody could have been that stupid, design it how I described it and gotten away with it.
I feel really stupid now.
Probably all due to aggravation about the idiot before me who first blocked the pump checking his oil and then blocked the water/air thingy checking his oil again (he didn't use the air machine).
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Date: 21/6/03 06:22 am (UTC)Usually the end of the hose has a squeeze valve and a pressure reader on it..
But as suggested above you probably set it first then use it :)
Nathan, The Toxic Pixie