That’s great. But what about EVs? They have to pay for air?
Not sure. I never bought gas for an EV, so I wouldn’t know.
I can’t recall ever having seen a full-service gas station in my entire life, and I’m well into middle age. Except for a few years, I have always lived in southeastern Louisiana. I have travelled a good bit through all of the Gulf Coast states. Not a one full-service station has ever made itself known to me.
They can’t use the complimentary squeegees, either.
Useless is right. You could freeze to death using one of those to fill up a tire during the winter. When those started popping up everywhere, we bought one that you could plug into the cigarette lighter and attach to the valve stem so you didn’t have to kneel on the ground holding the hose on the whole time. Nifty little units.
Now that’s funny!
Huh. I’ve had a couple of those and never had any luck with them. Maybe they have improved. I do have a real air compressor, but it’s a pain to drag out of the shed.
The little car carry, cigarette lighter ones work fine. They’ve gotten much better, though they’re not fast.
I’d go for something like that!
I don’t mind pumping my own gas on most days and I try to avoid having to get gas when the weather sucks, but sometimes when we have weeks of below 0 weather it can’t be avoided.
My gf has been working from home since the start of the pandemic. When I go to the store, she’ll occasionally suggest that I take her car, since she isn’t using it. Coincidentally, this happens when the weather outside is frightful and her tank is empty. Hmmmmmmm…
I’m the one working from home. I’m a foot+ taller than my Wife. Her car has some sleeping bags and blankets stuffed behind the drivers seat so that when she takes the dogs somewhere there isn’t the well behind the seat that they can fall in.
Having the sleeping bag and blankets is also good if she gets stuck somewhere.
For me to drive her car, all that has to be dug out so I can put her seat back. We just don’t drive each others car unless on a long road trip.
They are slow, but I can attach the hose to the valve stem and sit in the car with the door almost closed and watch the air gauge until it hits the mark. Then I can turn it off, get out of the car, and disconnect the hose. Much better than the tire gauge, air, tire gauge, air method, especially in winter.
Same with me and my wife. It’s just simpler to never drive each others cars rather than move a bunch of stuff and adjust the seat and steering wheel back and forth all the time. She’s fine with pumping her own gas, although sometimes in the winter we’ll both go at the same time and I’ll fill both cars.
Face it man, you’re married. 
There are certain places I know of with FREE air, provided by automated pumps. You set the PSI you want at the machine, then when you’re adding the air, it beeps when you hit the pressure, and you can go to the next tire. Truly, we live in an age of wonder.
It’s probably free because Big Tire Air is putting tracking devices in your tires.
I’d love it if I had that option around here! I’m just happy that very few places here have ever implemented the 25-cent air pumps (though I have my own compressor at home, nowadays).
That’s not legal at public* gas stations here; there must be an employee on site (usually the cashier); presumably trained in where & how to press the emergency shutoff button.
-* We do have non-public gas stations; they’re mainly for trucks/fleets & you have to have an acct already established with them (& I believe a separate card; kind of like a department store charge card) to use them.
Got one of those years ago from a company I worked for; total & complete PoS! The compressor wasn’t strong enough such that when one attached it to the tire the tire actually lost air because more would come out of the tire once the Schrader valve plunger was depressed than would go into it.
To be honest, the machines take quarters; they aren’t 25¢ to use. Most were $1 though I’ve seen a bunch up to $1.50 now. The big regional chain convenience stores are pretty much the only ones with free air anymore, as it’s a ‘loss leader’ to get you in & (hopefully) buy other things while you’re there.
We have 4 of those little compressors. I have the only old one and got lucky and had one that worked and still works 30 years later. Just lucky.
The other 3 are less than 5 years old and 2 different brands and they all work fine. Slow but they work. My son just used his today on 2 very low front tires. He was done in les than 20 minutes. It was a $20 unit as far as I can remember.
Now my wife had two others in the time I’ve had my one. Both were garbage. But the new one is very good.
I’ve only skimmed the thread, but I have seen full service available in Florida in places with a lot of retirees concentrated together. Not common, and my information is also old.
No idea if they still do, Florida isn’t getting the tons of retirees who barely knew how to drive before moving to Florida from NY and Boston.
Kansas City, MO has an ordinance that requires pre-pay. The cops were spending too much time chasing down drive-offs, apparently.
Don’t they have pay at the pump? Nothing I’ve seen in years doesn’t have that. You have to put in a credit card or the pump will not turn on.
Yes, you can pre-pay at the pump or go inside to use cash (or a card I guess - I’ve had to do that when the card-reader was broken).