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  "title": "Portable Air Compressor",
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  "price": 79,
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    "compressor",
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  "description_short": "A 12V tyre inflator with automatic shut off, a real time pressure screen, dual power supply and an LED light, supplied with adapters and a storage bag.",
  "description": "Why pressure matters\n\nAn underinflated tyre flexes more in the sidewall, which builds heat, wears the shoulders of the tread and increases rolling resistance.\n\nThe practical results are a longer braking distance, worse grip in the wet, more fuel used and a tyre that needs replacing sooner. None of those announce themselves. The tyre just quietly gets worse.\n\nFinding your correct pressures\n\nThe figures are on a sticker, usually in the driver's door shut, sometimes inside the fuel flap or in the glovebox.\n\nMost cars list two sets: normal load and fully laden. Use the laden figures when the car is full of people and luggage, which is exactly when people forget.\n\nThe number on the tyre sidewall is the maximum the tyre can take, not the pressure your car wants.\n\nChecking them properly\n\nCheck when the tyres are cold, meaning the car has been standing or has driven less than about two miles.\n\nA warm tyre reads higher. If you check after a motorway run and set the pressure to the door sticker figure, the tyres will be under pressure once they cool.\n\nDo all four, and do the spare. A flat spare is only discovered at the worst moment.\n\nUsing the inflator\n\nConnect the compressor to the 12V socket with the engine running if you are doing all four tyres, so you are not draining the battery.\n\nScrew the connector onto the valve squarely. A leaking connection makes the pump work hard and the reading wander.\n\nSet your target pressure and let the automatic shut off do the work.\n\nLet the unit rest between tyres. Small compressors get hot, and heat is what kills them.\n\nWhat it will not do\n\nIt tops up a tyre that is on the rim and holding air. It will not seat a bead on a fresh tyre and it will not run air tools.\n\nIf a tyre has gone completely flat, look for the cause before you inflate it. Driving on a tyre that has been run flat can damage the sidewall even after it is reinflated.",
  "llm_summary": "Portable 12V DC air compressor and tyre inflator with automatic shut off at a set pressure, a real time pressure monitoring screen, dual power supply (vehicle 12V socket or internal battery) and an LED work light. Noise level 80 dB. Supplied with a user manual, inflation needle, two tapered adapters, a valve extender, a replacement fuse and a storage bag, so it also inflates bicycle tyres, sports balls and airbeds. Correct car tyre pressures are on the sticker in the driver's door shut or fuel flap, not on the tyre sidewall, and should be checked cold. This is a top up inflator: it does not seat a tyre bead and is not a workshop compressor for air tools. Allow it to cool between tyres.",
  "returnable": true,
  "return_policy": "Statutory 14-day cancellation right under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, plus a further 14 days to return the goods. Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies to faulty or misdescribed goods.",
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  "warranty": null,
  "brand": "Online Auto Company",
  "gtin": null,
  "mpn": null,
  "condition": "new",
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  "updated_at": "2026-08-12",
  "compare_at_price": 119
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