Who will put air in my tires?

[Anonymous]

I always used to put air in my tires, no problem. But the gas stations near me all started to use the crappy stick type pumps that don’t connect well and I wound up taking more air out than I was putting in trying to get the stick to connect. There is one place a few miles from my house that has the kind where I can set the pressure on the pump and has a better connector. It was a production.

I would up buying this device for home https://snowjoe.com/products/sun-joe-24v-ajc-lte-cordless-air-compressor-with-nozzle-adapters-24-volt-2-0-ah

It works fine, and comes with adapters for all kinds of things - bike tires, basketballs, etc. (double check the specs on each model - off hand I don’t remember which specific one of these I wound up buying).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

Actually, if you are planning to take a long trip across the country and you are not used to doing basic servicing on your own car, take your car to a nationwide chain like Jiffy Lube. Get the oil change service. Then while you are on the road, if you have any questions, during the 3 months after a change, you can take the car to any Jiffy Lube and they will top off your fluids (including your windshield wiper fluid if you end up using a ton for dirt, mud, storms, bugs, like cicadas, etc), oil if needed and will check and refill your tire air pressure.

In the past, when my wife took a couple of long car trips when I was doing her car maintenance, I would just take it to Jiffy Lube before her trip and tell her to go to a Jiffy Lube if she had any issues and let them do a check up on the fluids and tire pressure. Worth it for the cost of the oil change and so that she would not worry about those things on her trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

Actually, if you are planning to take a long trip across the country and you are not used to doing basic servicing on your own car, take your car to a nationwide chain like Jiffy Lube. Get the oil change service. Then while you are on the road, if you have any questions, during the 3 months after a change, you can take the car to any Jiffy Lube and they will top off your fluids (including your windshield wiper fluid if you end up using a ton for dirt, mud, storms, bugs, like cicadas, etc), oil if needed and will check and refill your tire air pressure.

In the past, when my wife took a couple of long car trips when I was doing her car maintenance, I would just take it to Jiffy Lube before her trip and tell her to go to a Jiffy Lube if she had any issues and let them do a check up on the fluids and tire pressure. Worth it for the cost of the oil change and so that she would not worry about those things on her trip.

How much do they charge? I pay 31 for my oil change and my mechanic would perform all safety checks for free.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

OP should pay someone $40 to essentially out air in her tires? You all are ridiculous. If she actually needs an oil change that’s different but to get one just for air is nuts.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

Actually, if you are planning to take a long trip across the country and you are not used to doing basic servicing on your own car, take your car to a nationwide chain like Jiffy Lube. Get the oil change service. Then while you are on the road, if you have any questions, during the 3 months after a change, you can take the car to any Jiffy Lube and they will top off your fluids (including your windshield wiper fluid if you end up using a ton for dirt, mud, storms, bugs, like cicadas, etc), oil if needed and will check and refill your tire air pressure.

In the past, when my wife took a couple of long car trips when I was doing her car maintenance, I would just take it to Jiffy Lube before her trip and tell her to go to a Jiffy Lube if she had any issues and let them do a check up on the fluids and tire pressure. Worth it for the cost of the oil change and so that she would not worry about those things on her trip.

How much do they charge? I pay 31 for my oil change and my mechanic would perform all safety checks for free.

Jiffy Lube is awful - I would never ever go there. So careless - they have a bad reputation for this. I’ve had more than one family never have major damage causes but them either not putting something back properly or actually leaving something IN the car that shouldn’t be there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

Actually, if you are planning to take a long trip across the country and you are not used to doing basic servicing on your own car, take your car to a nationwide chain like Jiffy Lube. Get the oil change service. Then while you are on the road, if you have any questions, during the 3 months after a change, you can take the car to any Jiffy Lube and they will top off your fluids (including your windshield wiper fluid if you end up using a ton for dirt, mud, storms, bugs, like cicadas, etc), oil if needed and will check and refill your tire air pressure.

In the past, when my wife took a couple of long car trips when I was doing her car maintenance, I would just take it to Jiffy Lube before her trip and tell her to go to a Jiffy Lube if she had any issues and let them do a check up on the fluids and tire pressure. Worth it for the cost of the oil change and so that she would not worry about those things on her trip.

Yeah, love the idea of this, but I have not used Jiffy Lube since they drained my oil, neglected to put a cap back on and I was left on the side of the road with a seized engine.
How much do they charge? I pay 31 for my oil change and my mechanic would perform all safety checks for free.

Jiffy Lube is awful - I would never ever go there. So careless - they have a bad reputation for this. I’ve had more than one family never have major damage causes but them either not putting something back properly or actually leaving something IN the car that shouldn’t be there.

[Anonymous]

Tip well, and if they aren't busy, most garages will do lots of stuff for you

[Anonymous]

If you don’t want to do it yourself - and trust me, once you try it once it’s easier than you think! You won’t explode your tire, I promise - or if you want to watch someone do it, the gas station on Mass Ave in NW DC by Wagshalls has free air and they also have a full service gas pump. If if it’s a slow day the person who pumps gas will also do the air. Free, although I recommend a tip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Get your oil changed if you are close to needing one and ask them to check the fluids and tire pressure

+1. Unless you recently changed it, you probably want to get oil changed anyway. Have them check for long distance driving including all fluid levels and tire pressure.

Actually, if you are planning to take a long trip across the country and you are not used to doing basic servicing on your own car, take your car to a nationwide chain like Jiffy Lube. Get the oil change service. Then while you are on the road, if you have any questions, during the 3 months after a change, you can take the car to any Jiffy Lube and they will top off your fluids (including your windshield wiper fluid if you end up using a ton for dirt, mud, storms, bugs, like cicadas, etc), oil if needed and will check and refill your tire air pressure.

In the past, when my wife took a couple of long car trips when I was doing her car maintenance, I would just take it to Jiffy Lube before her trip and tell her to go to a Jiffy Lube if she had any issues and let them do a check up on the fluids and tire pressure. Worth it for the cost of the oil change and so that she would not worry about those things on her trip.

Yeah, love the idea of this, but I have not used Jiffy Lube since they drained my oil, neglected to put a cap back on and I was left on the side of the road with a seized engine.
How much do they charge? I pay 31 for my oil change and my mechanic would perform all safety checks for free.

Jiffy Lube is awful - I would never ever go there. So careless - they have a bad reputation for this. I’ve had more than one family never have major damage causes but them either not putting something back properly or actually leaving something IN the car that shouldn’t be there.

I'm the person who recommended Jiffy Lube. You don't have to use it for regular maintenance, but the benefit of using it before a long road trip is worth it, especially for someone who doesn't do their own maintenance or know how to, like the OP. The one benefit is that if she has issues, she can just roll into any Jiffy Lube nationwide to have the fluids topped off or have them check/add air to her tires.

I've used Jiffy Lube off and on for 25 years and only had problems at one location which I then avoided.