It’s true with a few qualifications. If you go to a mechanic, usually the top the air off in your tires for free. If you go to a gas/fuel station there’s usually a air pump and hose that’s about $1.50 USD for about 5-10 minutes of air. Alternately, you could just buy a plug in air pump for around $25-$50 and keep it in the car and you’ll always be able to get air into your tires.
IDK about the rest of the country, but California made it so they have to provide air and water for free if you purchase gas, but the only way you’re ever gonna get it free is by going inside and demanding it. And that’s if the fucking machine even works. Gas stations never seem to actually maintain a god damn thing.
The station near us has an air hose that just has a button to start it up unlike all the other places nearby with paid ones. I wonder how long before it gets monetized too. Or if I’m just not realizing I was supposed to be paying inside for it or something this whole time
And you didn’t have to pay for air, because there was an air hose on the corner of the building you could just go use.
Air and water are both free in Australian petrol stations.
Wait really? I thought I knew a lot of details about America, but not that. In the EU I’ve never seen a for pay air hose.
Shit, if I go to a tire shop they’ll probably do it for free.
It’s true with a few qualifications. If you go to a mechanic, usually the top the air off in your tires for free. If you go to a gas/fuel station there’s usually a air pump and hose that’s about $1.50 USD for about 5-10 minutes of air. Alternately, you could just buy a plug in air pump for around $25-$50 and keep it in the car and you’ll always be able to get air into your tires.
IDK about the rest of the country, but California made it so they have to provide air and water for free if you purchase gas, but the only way you’re ever gonna get it free is by going inside and demanding it. And that’s if the fucking machine even works. Gas stations never seem to actually maintain a god damn thing.
Yeah it’s like US$1.50 for the air pump to run long enough for you to fill maybe three tires.
Except at Sheetz. Most Sheetz stations have a free air pump, so everybody uses it and it’s broken a lot.
There’s plenty in the Netherlands, but we’re practically Ferengi
Small towns often have a place with free air. My local fleet supply store has one.
The station near us has an air hose that just has a button to start it up unlike all the other places nearby with paid ones. I wonder how long before it gets monetized too. Or if I’m just not realizing I was supposed to be paying inside for it or something this whole time
There’s still one of those near me but it’s the only one I know of now. Irks me so much the switch to paid air. Those machines must cost a fortune.
Belle Tire has free air, that’s the only place I know of anymore.