Does anyone make quality footpumps?

[Classic Grad 98]

...They all seem to be cheap tat to be honest, even the Michelin double-barrel one which was recommended to me. Okay it lasted over a year, but it still isn't a quality product- pressed steel, riveted together, everything goes out of square so it doesn't hinge properly unless your foot is right in the middle, cheap rubber feet fall off, springs fail etc...
I'm using these several times a day at the weekends but I definitely don't want a compressor.
Does anyone make a decent one?

[ali4390]

I thought the Halfords one was the worst pump I'd ever owned, worse than the budget ones!!

I had a classic car mag with a test of loads of pumps but cannot remember which one they recommended, I'll try and dig it out at the weekend.

[Pistachio]

What size?

[CBR JGWRR]

ali4390 said:

I thought the Halfords one was the worst pump I'd ever owned, worse than the budget ones!!

I had a classic car mag with a test of loads of pumps but cannot remember which one they recommended, I'll try and dig it out at the weekend.

I have a budget Halfords one...

[RC944]

totally agree re the michelin double barrel thing. its crap. the spaceship type compressor has been okay so far though.

[kambites]

I'd imagine it's quite an unusual requirement because most people willing to spend a decent amount of money on something to pump up tyres will buy a compressor.

[mnkiboy]

I have a Halfords double barrell footpump. It's ok, does the job. A little flimsy perhaps but it's still in one piece after a lot of useage last year.

[Classic Grad 98]

Pistachio said:

What size?

Doesn't matter but I also want some O's!

[Classic Grad 98]

kambites said:

I'd imagine it's quite an unusual requirement because most people willing to spend a decent amount of money on something to pump up tyres will buy a compressor.

Not sure about that. There are 120 competitors in my club alone who all congregate at places where there is no electricity- Wales, for example. Most of which have to use cheap pesky footpumps!
If a normal double-barrel footpump is £15, surely there are plenty of folk who might pay up to double that for a version which will stand up to regular use for more than a year or so without falling apart...

ETA: If it could make the sound of a Golf's door closing every time I push it to the floor, that would be fantastic.

[kambites]

Most racers that I know use compressors that run from a 12V cigarette lighter socket.

And to be fair, I'm sure some bits of Wales have discovered electricity by now.

[sjg]

I bought a floor/track pump for my (pedal) bike. It gets used in place of any footpump for doing tyres on the car and even the cheap end of the market they are far better made than any footpump I've used.

eg. http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-high-pressure-flo...

Check pressures with a separate gauge though (you'd be daft to rely on a pump one anyway) as it goes up to 160psi meaning normal car ranges are rather hard to measure.

[WhoseGeneration]

I have an FP1P01 as shown here.
www.kestrelequipment.co.uk/Kestrel Catalogue/catalogue_files/pcl/meters_gauges_inflators_footpumps.pdf

I bought mine from a local engineers supplies place, years ago.

[jon-]

The bike pumps are decent.

I've used every foot pump lovetyres has to offer and I think I like these the best:

http://lovetyres.com/p/Tyre-Accessories/Foot-Pumps...
http://lovetyres.com/p/Tyre-Accessories/Foot-Pumps...

I've had more than one Michelin pump gauge fail on me, though the Ring and Maypole versions are very similar in constructions.

I've a ring rac630 and Michelin rapid compressor at home and I still find myself going for the foot pump, unless it's adding a lot of pressure.

[Perd Hapley]

A compressor is quite limited compared to a good footpump. I can't use a 12v compressor when the car's in the garage, I can't use it on my bike away from the car, and I can't use it for little things like airbeds and footballs etc.

Classic Grad 98 said:

ETA: If it could make the sound of a Golf's door closing every time I push it to the floor, that would be fantastic.

[Pistachio]

Classic Grad 98 said:

Pistachio said:

What size?

Doesn't matter but I also want some O's!

[trickywoo]

Classic Grad 98 said:

...They all seem to be cheap tat, even the Michelin double-barrel one which was recommended to me.

+1 I was taken in with the Michelin branding thinking it'd be a good pump but two of them broke within a week of normal use.

Floor pumps are stronger but take more effort.

[Classic Grad 98]

kambites said:

Most racers that I know use compressors that run from a 12V cigarette lighter socket.

Does Michael Schumacher have a 12v lighter socket in his Mercedes?

(I'm being deliberately optuse. My racing car does not have a 12v cigarette lighter I'm afraid.)

[kambites]

Classic Grad 98 said:

kambites said:

Most racers that I know use compressors that run from a 12V cigarette lighter socket.

Does Michael Schumacher have a 12v lighter socket in his Mercedes?

(I'm being deliberately optuse. My racing car does not have a 12v cigarette lighter I'm afraid.)

I'd be surprised if Michael Schumacher's pit garage doesn't have a 12V lighter socket somewhere in it.

We always just used the tow car as a power source.

[Classic Grad 98]

Yeah fair enough, had a feeling you'd say that... Problem is the towcar is usually locked and parked 30ft away, and even then the socket doesn't work with the ignition off!
So it has to be a foot pump really. So far I think I'm most convinced by 'Jon-', but look closer and they're the same as all the others underneath- pressed mild steel and rivets... I don't doubt they're better than the Michelin one though and they aren't exactly expensive so I may have a punt.
Floor/track type pumps- I just plain don't like using 'em.

[jon-]

There's always the Ring RAC650 - a battery powered rechargeable compressor. Not sure if it would fill many car tyres though.