Friday 16 November 2012

Tire pressure balancer

A few weeks ago, while wandering around Princess Auto’s always fascinating surplus section, I found something useful among the random array of products that is that section of the store. This “Tire2Tire” is an air hose with a tire chuck on either end. Ostensibly, this product is used to reinflate a flat tire by using the air from another of your tires. The idea seems to be that a tire has some infinite amount of air and you can do fun things like inflate other tires and beach balls and air mattresses by harnessing this mystical force. I suppose, in a crowded parking lot, you could probably use the car parked next to yours to refill that flat tire with this product, as long as that car’s owner doesn’t see you.



It might not have been a realistic business model, which may be why these things are being sold as surplus. The product literature also suggests you can increase your car’s top speed by using this air hose. How could I pass that up?