Grunter Compressors from Mallows?

Paul I have not heard any other complaints. Considering that you could have paid $249.00 for a basically identical unit from Bushranger, would that have made you happier? It really sounds like you may not have had a good connection and consequently increased the current causing heat, or of course, you could have got a Friday afternoon one just before knockoff.

All true, but I'm just glad it happend when it did........after the tyres were inflated.

The stupid thing was I sat around for an hour thinking the darn thing had got too hot and the thermal cutout had kicked in........ I then decided it was time to get out the screwdriver.

Now that I am back home....time for the soldering iron and some icy cold beers !!!

Apart from those problems how did the compressor go. What size tyre were you pumping up and how long did to take? Was very close to buying one a week ago.

And other than the solder joints.......the compressor worked fine

Paul,

My Grunter has a battery cable that needs to be at least a metre longer.

The pressure guage is also a dicky one. Have to guess the pressure and check with my reliable guage.

I would have exchanged it for another but lost my receipt and also had the thing for a month before I used it.

I will lengthen the cable and maybe fit a better guage.

Other than that it worked fine. Mind you, I've only used it once so far.

Regards Tommyruff

Hi Paul,

We recently bought the Repco version of the Grunter...without checking I think they call it the Cyclone. Anyway, same unit just has a long hose and a bag.

Only used it once so far but performed admirably. Actually, our travelling companions had an ARB a/comp. and we had our tyres re-inflated before them.

Details were 6 tyres (4 on car, 2 on campertrailer), all Coopers A/T Discoverers 265/75. Inflated from 18lb to 35lb, took about 3-4 minutes per tyre with no noticable drop in performance from the first tyre to the last.

If your compressor isn't performing to this level, you may have got a bad one. Take it back and ask for an exchange.

:o) Melissa