HEYNER Premium Double Barrel Foot Air Pump With Manometer 10 Bar 140PSI Pedalmax… 225000

Something dreadful is happening, we think at our local gym. Two of my wife’s tyres were delicately and painstakingly punctured to ensure a slow puncture in both front tyres. The second where a sharp blade was used to raise a flap on the side wall of her tyre and then the base under the flap was punctured with a sharp object. On making enquiries it seems that many others have suffered the same fate and several cars have been ‘keyed’.Then I noticed that both front tyres on my humble Nissan Juke called ‘Custard’ (you’ll have to guess the colour) started to go down and each week the tyre pressure warning light was coming on for one or the other. I took it to our local Kwik Fit who have always sorted our tyre and suspension problems quickly and accurately and they removed both tyres and squirted them for an age with lashings of soapy water. Fortunately or otherwise they could not find anything and as they said to me “We can only fix what we can find.” I therefore decided to simply await events and each week kept pumping the tyres up. In order to get the tyres back up to the correct levels I’d have to perform about 200 pumps for each tyre from my old foot pump, which was actually not that old. This was quite hard work and the whole thing would wheeze and gasp along – a bit like me really! Soon afterwards the frame of the pump shattered in mid flow and I was unable to pump any more. I tried the little electric pump that came with Custard as along with many modern cars he didn’t come with a spare. Mercifully my wife bought me a super Christmas present which she hid under the bed in the spare room of spare tyre, jack and spanner thingy – what more could a man want! Unfortunately the electric one made a ferocious noise and took an age to inflate the tyres so much so I thought it was probably contributing more to global warming rather than the correct tyre pressures for Custard.I realised that I was in a bit of trouble and felt that I needed an unequivocal solution. I knew that I needed certainty, precision, quality and of course, at such times, I knew that it had to be German. Enter this amazing pump which was delivered, click and collect, the next day by Amazon. This comes in a quality box, then a useful zip-up storage bag. As one looks at it poised next to one’s tyre one knows that it means business and one’s problems are all but sorted. It comes with adaptors for sunbeds and footballs and so on and also a clunky double head attachment which I am not keen on but one cannot have everything. It’s a little harder to pump than my old one but of course gets much more done each ‘stroke’ and my tyres are inflated for another week in no time at all. I reckon about 60 pumps each tyre. The other point is that the whole assembly feels poised and stable as one presses down on it and it is quiet with a smooth unruffled efficiency that we have come to expect from German products. The inbuilt pressure gauge seems clear and accurate though I always rely on my own gauge that I bought separately on Amazon and is an amazing gauge. There is a good correlation between the foot pump’s readings and my own gauge.I’m not quite sure what lies ahead for poor Custard and his tyres. I do know however that whatever happens this trusty pump will accompany us both on this journey.

This pump us a quality piece of kit. I bought this to replace my trusty old Michelin twin barrel pump, whose hose had perished and was now taking ages to pump anything up. The first thing you notice about the Heyer is how smooth the barrel action is. No squeaking. The pump also sits firmly on the floor when in use and the large dial is easy to read (Bar main scale, Psi secondary). The twin nozzles are great as you can swap between Schrader and presta valves without the need of an adaptor. I found this handy as my family has a number of bikes, so pumping up tyres with different valves is easy. There are a few extra adaptors (for pumping balls, etc up) also included secured on a plastic holder attached to the hose, so everything at hand to pump up virtually anything. I did a bit of researched before going for this pump. The only negative issue appeared to be with the metal clip that keeps the pump folded when stored - there were reports of this getting in the way when using the pump. This is not an issue if you simply flip the catch around so it's under the pump body when using - so a non issue really. Expensive for a foot pump? I don't think so.

Well made pump and easy to use, but the gauge is not telling the truth. Thank goodness I purchased a tyre gauge at the same time. You can get different readings every time you check the pressure gauge.

I have used this 3 times now and it seems well made and with a good gauge. However the gauge reads primarily in BAR, with psi on the inner scale and in red, rather than white, making it a little smaller and more difficult to read, particularly in poor light. So, if you are like me and work in psi, it is time to change to metric! I have not verified the accuracy of the gauge. The valve connector is the lever type with a nice dual size robust plastic body. I used to think I preferred the brass screw on type but having used both, the lever type is the quicker and more practical to use and once you are used to it, you will lose much less air when connecting/disconnecting.I have no hesitation in recommending this well made pump as a good investment for any driver but based on the time for the double barrel to fill a soft tyre, I would not even consider the singe barrel version.My only negatives are 1) I was surprised how many actuations it took to fill a 'soft' average size car tyre - it was well over 100 2) the bent metal clip' holding the pump closed is a little cheap and tacky.Otherwise, great