MICHELIN High Power Tyre Inflator (ML-12266)

While it may be only the first day of my experience, I felt that I can rate my Michelin Tyre Inflator based on my previous experiences and my first impressions with this unit.I have been driving vehicles for decades and this must be my sixth or seventh electric Inflator. However, I was excited from the word go.I am not going to write here whether you need a tyre inflator or not. It is your choice. But for those who want one, I feel that they will more or less identify themselves with my experiences.I also started with foot pumps and graduated to electrically operated ones. Initially, like most of the people, I picked up the low cost ones which conked off within 30-40 uses or if used for more than 10 minutes at a stretch. Conking off does not mean total shutoff. They just don't inflate beyond 10-15 psi. Most of them move from my cars to kids' cycles. Or lying somewhere in the garage cupboard.I then started buying various makes which are more expensive (Rs.1000-2000 range) from SE Asia or even Germany. However, I suspect all of them anyway made in China and have similar characteristics. Analog needle type gauges which can be +/- 5 psi in terms of accuracy (if you ignore the wrong PSI and Pa scale placement matchings), highly noisy (always the KRRrrrrrrr & KiT Kit Kits together) and jump or walk around during operation. You just have to hold them with hand. The switches or the build quality was nothing to write about. And as the age goes up, ie., within 15-20 uses the time taken for inflating increases. They just struggle beyond 30 psi. And between a small car (say an Alto or an I-10) or a SUV, they show their weakness immediately, in terms of time taken per psi of pumping in the 25-35 psi range.With this background and when my German unit became weak and seized one day, I finally decided that I will pick up the most expensive compact inflator, which happened to be Michelin 12266, among the reputable brands. I noticed that there were no reviews for this on Amazon, in our country, despite a lot of people looking at it and probably leaving it due to high price.But let me confidently tell you. If you are fed up with your various electric inflators, you can as well try this. It is also made in China, but looks like those high quality items (Laptops, cell phones etc) which come from China. Hopefully Michelin brand and QC should count.Despite the fact this is only a one day of experience, I feel reasonably confident that it will work better and longer than my previous ones. Cross my fingers and pray. Anyway, I will tell you the reasons for my optimism.a. The quality of body, switches, cable and hose are superb. The packing is typical Michelin.b. The first surprise is that this is the lowest noise making inflator that I have seen. It is very pleasant. In fact, my neighbor who was cleaning his car, about 5 car bays away, could not hear it till I wanted to showoff my new acquisition.c. My Grand I-10 & I-10 tyres were at 27-28 psi and one of the tyres of my Ford Endeavour was at 22 psi. It took a few seconds for small car tyres and less than 2-3 minutes for the big ones to reach the recommended pressure. Even the hose did not heat up till I went to my sixth or seventh tyre. I kept trying on our neighbours' cars and even after six cars (x4 tyres each) the body did not show any traces of heat. The noise did not change.d. The unit stayed on ground with reasonable stability. At least it did not jump around.e. The accuracy of the digital gauge was unbelievable. I checked thrice at various Psi pressures with my high end sensitive hand guage and if we really want to split hairs, it perhaps would be less than 0.5 at our normal pressures. (Anyway I keep about 0.5 higher for compensating possible loss while removing the pressure hose).f. Auto cut off (it tries 3-4 times at the end for accuracy at the end, due to sensor) is a big relief. Combined with the non-walk character, you can leave it to its work and attend to other jobs on the car. It just switches off at the pre-set pressure that you feed in. It also remembers this for the next time.g. Though the 12V power output socket and the USB charging port were not the main reasons for picking this unit up, they add to the convenience. Mainly if you have a small test lamp / emergency light and have only one 12V socket in your car. Think of a situation that you wanted to fill up air on a dark highway-side as well as use your plug-in lamp, you have the convenience. And of course, you get double the length of electric cable for your plug in lamp to reach more than 8-10 feet away from your electric socket. The socket works just fine. My charge-dead, Thule Clamp lamp worked brightly from the first second of plugging in.May be a protective case to keep it in and a better On/Off feel (the visible difference in height of the button between both the positions is nil, though the guide says otherwise) could have made it more desirable.All in all, I feel that it is money well spent and the unit hopefully will continue to work for longer period than my previous ones.If you are one of those who are sensitive about keeping your tyre inflation pressures maintained correctly always, but somehow keep postponing due to long queues and inconvenience at the pumps or faced a situation when one sudden morning you found one of the tyre's inflation has come down, have a good tyre inflator like this one. And for heaven's sake don't go through the entire cycle of my (or some of my friends out there) experiences to finally pick up a good one. Just invest in this one and you will not regret.

Good ProductNicely workingI think you can buy 12v and AC 230 v both options if available. Because every time when I check tyre pressure must start my car.Over all I happy to buy this product.

Good product. Works good and sturdy build. Only bothering things is the power wire is too thin.

I bought this after my last Tyre inflator conked out after 13 years of service. It was a cheaper Chinese one, but it still lasted long. On the other hand, this one is quite sturdy and well-built. At 3.5k it is expensive compared to other units you get but performance is much better I believe. I use it on my Innova. It fills the air much faster—from 28psi to 35psi in less than a minute. It doesn't get heated up or make too much noise. The cables are big enough. It comes with a pouch so easy to carry. Much smaller than what it looks in a picture. Smaller than my previous one. The digital gauge is very accurate and matches my TPMS readings exactly. I always carry this on long drives. Overall very happy with the Quality.

Excellent quality..using from last 1 year no issue at all,

Bought it approx 06 months ago . Found it handy and easy to use . Also Good Quality product.

I returned this product. Couple of buttons were not working, some was behaving incorrectly. It was very noisy too. Later I found similar feedback from other buyers. So I don’t think the issue is with my copy only.On the other hand, considering this is from a reputed brand, I am not sure if something is related to the seller.

The build quality of this product is solid. Its heavy unlike other low cost, cheap, lightweight Chinese tyre inflators.Wire length is 300 cm (approximately 10 Feet) and air hose length is around 2 Feet so it will reach all the tyres of your car. It requires 12 V DC, 7.5 Ampere power supply to operate. Since all the cars come with 12V DC, 15 Ampere cigarette lighter socket this will definitely work with any car.Procedure to Operate:1) Start your car first (If you don't it will put heavy load on your cars battery and it may get drain)2) Connect the cigarette lighter plug of inflator to the cars cigarette lighter socket3) Connect the air hose of inflator to the tyre. As soon as you will connect the hose to your tyre the current tyre pressure will be shown inside the digital display. Using the +/- buttons you can set the desired tyre pressure (Pay attention to the unit of pressure)4) Press the big yellow On/ Off button. It will start the inflator. once it reaches to the desired pressure it will momentarily stop. However wait for some time. It will start and stop 4/5 times to ensure accurate tyre pressure.5) Finally when it stops completely again press the big yellow button to turn off the inflator. (If you forget to press the button and start unscrewing the air hose from tyre; the tyre inflator will start again since it senses pressure drop at the outlet.)Advantages:1) Digital display for the tyre pressure readings as well as setting the desired tyre pressure.2) Readings available in 3 different units (PSI / Bar / KPa)3) Solid build quality4) LED lights to operate this device in dark conditions5) One cigarette lighter port and one USB port available on this device so that you can use it as a extension board also6) Comes with a carrying pouch inside the box8) Takes about 1.5 minutes to fill the air in a sedan cars tyre from 20 PSI to 33 PSI.9) Definitely faster than the cheap tyre inflators.10) Auto cut off function. You just need to set the desired tyre pressure and the device will automatically stop after reaching to that pressure.11) Comes with 1 year warranty12) Comes with two attachments to fill air in inflatable things such as foot ball, inflatable sofa / bed / pillow etc13) Pressure sensor is very accurate. Accuracy is +/- 1 PSIDisadvantages1) Little heavy (but that is because of the solid construction)2) If your tyre pressure is more than the recommended pressure and if you want to reduce the tyre pressure you have to manually remove the air from tyre. It will not remove air from the tyre automatically (Well no portable tyre inflator has this function so can not be said as a disadvantage)3) Price: I got this for 3800 Rupees which is definitely on the higher side as compared to the Chinese tyre inflators but quality justifies the price.Watch my review on youtube. Search for TechSimple.In my opinion the best buy price is Rs 3500/- During sale period after applying all the available discounts you will definitely get if for 3500/- rupees.Sayonara :)