10 best car compressors

No dri­ver is immune from a flat tire. An elec­tric com­pres­sor, which should be in the trunk of any motorist, will help to quick­ly cope with an unex­pect­ed break­down. Below is a rank­ing of the best mod­els for 2022, and tips for choos­ing them.

How to choose a good car compressor

When choos­ing an auto­com­pres­sor, first of all, pay atten­tion to the fol­low­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics:

1. Per­for­mance. When choos­ing an elec­tric pump, it is not the speed at which the wheel will be ful­ly inflat­ed that is impor­tant, but the amount of air enter­ing under the wheel tire. The fact is that the edges of the rub­ber move away from the disc when the air is com­plete­ly leaked. There­fore, the flow of incom­ing air must be greater in order to have time to press the tire. This requires a pow­er­ful device.
2. Con­nec­tion type. If the auto­com­pres­sor is pow­er­ful, then the load on the auto­mo­tive elec­tri­cal net­work will increase. Accord­ing­ly, this can lead to fail­ure of the fus­es. There­fore, do not give pref­er­ence to mod­els with a cig­a­rette lighter con­nec­tion. The best option is pumps with alli­ga­tor clips for con­nect­ing to bat­tery ter­mi­nals.
3. Gauge accu­ra­cy. When choos­ing a com­pres­sor, it is worth visu­al­ly inspect­ing the pres­sure gauge for read­abil­i­ty. In devices with a small pres­sure gauge, the point­er may cov­er the divi­sion, which will lead to a dif­fer­ence in pres­sure. It is also worth refus­ing to buy a pump with a pres­sure gauge on which there is a dou­ble scale.
4. dura­tion of con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion. When work­ing with large wheels, the oper­at­ing time of the com­pres­sor increas­es. As a result, the motor may over­heat.
5. Cord length. If you do not cal­cu­late the dis­tance from the pow­er point to the wheel, then you can get into a sit­u­a­tion where the cord is not long enough to reach the rear wheel. Strong­ly stretched rigid cables can pull the plug out of the sock­et or tear off the alli­ga­tor clips from the bat­tery ter­mi­nals.

Inexpensive

The pre­sent­ed mod­els take up a min­i­mum of space in the trunk of a car and please with an excel­lent price.

1.BERKUT R15

The mod­el has small dimen­sions — 157x167x93 mm and a pow­er­ful elec­tric motor — 174 watts. In the basic con­fig­u­ra­tion, the con­nec­tion is made through the cig­a­rette lighter sock­et, but the kit includes croc­o­dile clips.

Suit­able for inflat­ing the wheels of cars and minibus­es. A 1.2 meter long hose and a 4.8 meter wire will allow you to reach the wheels of any car. Tire pres­sure is deter­mined by an accu­rate pres­sure gauge, and there is a spe­cial valve for fine adjust­ment.

The per­for­mance of the car com­pres­sor for tire infla­tion is 40 l / min. It can be main­tained with­out effect on the pump for 30 min­utes.

Advan­tages:

• man­u­fac­tur­ing qual­i­ty;
• quick­ly inflates a com­plete­ly flat tire.

Flaws:

• hard wire;
• the pres­sure gauge nee­dle jumps when the com­pres­sor is run­ning.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Sergey Dmitrievich Works sta­bly, qui­et, no exces­sive vibra­tion. Pret­ty fast shakes the wheel R15

Zk The pow­er of the com­pres­sor allows you to con­nect it to the cig­a­rette lighter — this is very con­ve­nient, espe­cial­ly if you need to pump up the wheel from behind and there is also a cig­a­rette lighter on the pas­sen­ger side. Con­nect there, cov­er the door and you’re done, no need to climb under the hood.
He also has a nice bag.

2.70mai Air Compressor

The com­pres­sor allows you to increase the pres­sure inside the tire up to 7 atmos­pheres. A com­plete­ly flat R13 or R14 pas­sen­ger wheel is inflat­ed to 2 atmos­pheres in 3 min­utes. Infor­ma­tion about the pres­sure lev­el is dis­played on a dig­i­tal pres­sure gauge that tol­er­ates tem­per­a­tures from ‑20 to 70 degrees.

The pump is made in the form of a met­al box, which is con­ve­nient to car­ry with a strap han­dle. The kit includes a built-in pow­er cable from a 12 V sock­et and a soft rub­ber hose 0.5 meters long. Its short length is com­pen­sat­ed by the size of the wire — 3.6 meters. In addi­tion, the user receives 3 nee­dle noz­zles for inflat­ing balls and mat­tress­es.

Thanks to the mag­net­ic motor, the com­pres­sor can work with­out over­heat­ing for 24 min­utes. At the same time, the noise lev­el does not exceed 72 dB.

Advan­tages:

• infor­ma­tive touch manome­ter;
• quick­ly inflates a com­plete­ly flat tire;
• mod­ern design.

Flaws:

• short hose;
• on the glossy screen glare from the sun.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Nicholas I real­ly get high, the met­al case looks very cool. Once I set the right pres­sure and that’s it, then I pumped up all the tires very quick­ly and with just one but­ton. When I bought it, I blew off all the tires to see how it pumps — a thrill, I rec­om­mend it. PS shook 14 and 15 radius, very quick­ly.

Evgeniy Great device, espe­cial­ly at this price! I delib­er­ate­ly com­plete­ly low­ered the 185/60/R15 wheel before the test, and the com­pres­sor coped with it in exact­ly 3 min­utes, pump­ing up to 225 KPa.

3. Jock K90

Suit­able for own­ers of cars, motor­cy­cles and bicy­cles. Ease of use is due to small over­all dimen­sions and low weight — 2.5 kg.
Good per­for­mance of 40 l / min with small dimen­sions allows you to issue a pres­sure of 10 atmos­pheres. Plugged into a 12 V sock­et, the device oper­ates con­tin­u­ous­ly for 30 min­utes.

The design of the device is not well done. Due to the dock­ing of the elec­tric motor with the com­pres­sor, vibra­tion and noise appear. How­ev­er, sim­plic­i­ty allows you to increase the resource of work. The com­pres­sor kit con­sists of a pump and 4 noz­zles: for boats, mat­tress­es, balls and a stor­age bag. The length of the wire is 3.5 m, the air hose is 1 m.

The pres­sure lev­el is shown on an ana­log pres­sure gauge. This is the most unfor­tu­nate place in the com­pres­sor, since the met­ric scale is locat­ed inside the inch and is quite rough (1 divi­sion — 0.2 atmos­pheres).

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• long hose and cable;
• car­ry­ing case and acces­sories.

Flaws:

• insuf­fi­cient bag size;
• the pres­sure gauge nee­dle jumps when the com­pres­sor is run­ning.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Pavel Bychkov Please note: there is no lamp in the com­pres­sor, the pic­ture is not true

Dmit­ry On the “take” the sec­ond pic­ture is not from this mod­el, it shows K90 LED (with a flash­light). The K90 does not have a flash­light.

Price quality

Mod­els from this cat­e­go­ry are dis­tin­guished by high build qual­i­ty and a long ser­vice life at a low price.

1. AVS KE300TL

The com­pres­sor not only pumps up the wheels, but also diag­noses the on-board net­work. The auto-cut­off func­tion is suc­cess­ful­ly imple­ment­ed, that is, when the set pres­sure is reached, the com­pres­sor will turn off on its own. In addi­tion, the bat­tery charge lev­el is shown on the LCD screen, and there is a con­ve­nient flash­light in the design.

Long cable (3 m) and hose (0.75 m) allows you to reach any wheel. Con­nec­tion to the wheel is car­ried out through a thread­ed noz­zle. Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty makes 30 l/min. In this case, the pump pro­duces 7 atmos­pheres. The com­pres­sor is pow­ered from a 12 V car sock­et.

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• pumps up quick­ly;
• qui­et.

Flaws:

• insuf­fi­cient vol­ume of the cable com­part­ment;
• no quick release tip.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Glo­ry D. Works well. Pumps, stops at the right atmos­pheres

eugene v. High-qual­i­ty assem­bly, works rel­a­tive­ly qui­et­ly, long wire,
mul­ti­func­tion­al, dig­i­tal dis­play, price

2. BERKUT R17

One of the best com­pres­sors in this cat­e­go­ry. The com­pres­sor capac­i­ty of 55 l / min will allow you to pump up not only the wheels of cars, but also SUVs.

The car pump is com­pact (159x172x93 mm), but at the same time it has great pow­er. Because of this, the con­nec­tion to the elec­tri­cal cir­cuit of the car is car­ried out using the “croc­o­diles” locat­ed at the end of the 2.4 meter wire.

Con­nec­tion to the wheel is car­ried out using a thread­ed lug. It is locat­ed at the end of a 7.5 meter hose. The pres­sure lev­el in the wheel is deter­mined by a mechan­i­cal pres­sure gauge.

In addi­tion to the com­pres­sor, the kit includes 3 noz­zles for inflat­ing boats, balls and mat­tress­es, as well as a bag for trans­porta­tion and stor­age.

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• pumps up quick­ly;
• handy bag with com­part­ments for com­pres­sor and hose.

Flaws:

• lack of a quick-release tip;
• short pow­er cord.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Dmit­ry Bon­darev As always, Berkut has the most con­ve­nient bag (a sep­a­rate pock­et for the hose, a sep­a­rate one for the pump itself). Con­ve­nient hose con­nec­tion. Hose length — 5 meters stretched with­out prob­lems. The pres­sure gauge has been moved to the hose. Croc­o­diles for the bat­tery do not slip off.

Alex­ey L A long hose allows you to swing the rear wheels on large cars with­out any prob­lems. A con­ve­nient bag for stor­age, the pos­si­bil­i­ty of air bleed­ing is con­ve­nient­ly imple­ment­ed.

3. BERKUT SPEC-15

Lim­it­ed series of Berkut com­pres­sors, which comes in a box. This sys­tem allows you to use the device in extreme con­di­tions. The sealed hous­ing pre­vents dust and mois­ture from enter­ing the auto­com­pres­sor.

Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty of the device makes 44l/min. Con­nec­tion to the elec­tri­cal cir­cuit of the car is car­ried out using a cable 4.8 meters long, end­ing in both a 12 V plug and “crabs”.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the com­pres­sor is equipped with short cir­cuit pro­tec­tion and a drain valve. The air sup­ply is car­ried out through a 1.2 m hose with a thread­ed tip.

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• pumps up quick­ly;
• the pres­ence of wires for con­nect­ing to the bat­tery ter­mi­nals.

Flaws:

• no quick release tip.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Mak­sim Instead of the SPEC-15 mod­el, they sent the R15 mod­el
(the dif­fer­ence is in the pres­ence of a plas­tic case, which became a killer fea­ture when buy­ing a com­pres­sor)

Vera Gorde­va A won­der­ful thing, works qui­et­ly, con­nects in one motion. The box is a very use­ful thing, you can put it any­where, on asphalt, on the ground, in a pud­dle. The device will not get dirty, and the box is easy to clean.

4. Aggressor AGR-35

The com­pres­sor is con­nect­ed to the car’s elec­tri­cal net­work via a 12 volt sock­et. In addi­tion, the kit includes an adapter for “crabs” for con­nect­ing to the bat­tery ter­mi­nals. The tire pres­sure is deter­mined by an ana­log pres­sure gauge.

Able to work with­out over­heat­ing up to 30 min­utes. This allows you to inflate not only car wheels, but also inflat­able toys, bicy­cle wheels, mat­tress­es and balls.

Sta­bly deliv­ers a capac­i­ty of 35 l / min at low or high tem­per­a­tures from ‑30 to +40 degrees.

Advan­tages:

• com­pact;
• pumps up quick­ly;
• the pres­ence of an adapter for con­nect­ing to the bat­tery ter­mi­nals.

Flaws:

• lack of a quick-release tip;
• gauge shows low read­ings.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Denis S. For a device that has been lying in the trunk for years, the qual­i­ty of the mate­ri­als used is dis­gust­ing.

Roman Alexan­drovich S. It pumps nor­mal­ly and the hose is enough to pump up all the wheels by con­nect­ing the com­pres­sor in the trunk

Premium class

The rat­ing of com­pres­sors for cars is com­plet­ed by rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the top seg­ment. They are intend­ed pri­mar­i­ly for dri­vers who spend most of their lives on the road, such as truck­ers or bus dri­vers.

1.BERKUT R24

One of the best high per­for­mance com­pres­sors — 98 l/min. The design of the BERKUT R24 com­pres­sor is based on a mod­ern pis­ton cham­ber. It does not over­heat and can work for an entire hour.

Con­nec­tion to the elec­tri­cal cir­cuit and to the bat­tery ter­mi­nals. The long cable (2.4 m) and air hose (7.5 m) allows you to eas­i­ly reach any wheel. Unlike oth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives, this com­pres­sor is equipped with a quick-release tip.

Advan­tages:

• long peri­od of unin­ter­rupt­ed work;
• pumps up quick­ly;
• bat­tery con­nec­tion.

Flaws:

• incon­ve­nient loca­tion of the pres­sure gauge and the shut­down but­ton;
• the air hose los­es its prop­er­ties in the cold.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Sergey Ber Great com­pres­sor. Can be used as an air gen­er­a­tor for air sus­pen­sion. Gazelle wheel from 0 to 4 there. Down­loads in 2 min. 20 sec! Bag and adapters includ­ed

Yuri I. I redid the hose to 10m and the end, like on a sta­tion­ary com­pres­sor, every­thing became con­ve­nient, I installed it in the garage

2.BERKUT R20

One of the best high per­for­mance com­pres­sors — 72 l/min. This mod­el, like the pre­vi­ous one, belongs to the pis­ton type. Works for an hour with­out over­heat­ing. Con­nects direct­ly to the elec­tri­cal cir­cuit and to the bat­tery ter­mi­nals. The cable and air hose are long enough to inflate any car wheel. The com­pres­sor is equipped with a quick-release tip.

Advan­tages:

• long peri­od of unin­ter­rupt­ed work;
• pumps up quick­ly;
• con­nec­tion to the bat­tery ter­mi­nals.

Flaws:

• incon­ve­nient loca­tion of the pres­sure gauge and the shut­down but­ton;
• the air hose los­es its prop­er­ties in the cold.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Sergey Sor­gov Com­fort­able ergonom­ics, not too heavy weight and size, per­for­mance, bag mate­r­i­al qual­i­ty, long hose.

Sergey It pumps very quick­ly, a high-qual­i­ty clamp, a long, soft and high-qual­i­ty hose with a quick release, an accu­rate pres­sure gauge, there is a defla­tor, a con­ve­nient bag. The qual­i­ty of the prod­uct itself is pleas­ant, with the excep­tion of the fil­ter cov­er.

3. AGR-160

Auto­mo­bile com­pres­sor of the Russ­ian com­pa­ny. It cap­ti­vates with the build qual­i­ty of the com­po­nents and the strik­ing design. Cope with inflat­ing the wheels of both cars and SUVs, boats and pumps. For this, 7 dif­fer­ent noz­zles were pru­dent­ly put in the kit.

The com­pres­sor capac­i­ty is 160 l/min at a max­i­mum pres­sure of 10 atmos­pheres. Air enters the wheel through a flex­i­ble hose 8 meters long, and is con­nect­ed to the vehi­cle’s elec­tri­cal net­work via a 2.4 meter cable.

Advan­tages:

• pumps up quick­ly;
• works qui­et­ly;
• accu­rate manome­ter;
• good equip­ment.

Flaws:

• the air hose los­es its prop­er­ties in the cold;
• it is impos­si­ble to work with­out an exten­sion hose.

Cus­tomer Reviews

Andrey K — Runs rel­a­tive­ly fast
Qui­et oper­a­tion rel­a­tive to its size and com­pared to pre­vi­ous small­er com­pres­sors
— Equip­ment

ius­tasan I’m tak­ing the third one. First I took it to the trac­tor, then the sec­ond and decid­ed to take it to the car. Chil­dren’s dou­ble pool pumped up in 3 min­utes.