VIAIR 88P Portable Air Compressor

I also added a Tire Plug Kit to my Viair bag. If I have to, I can plug it, then fill up the tire. 

Don, good to hear another excellent report on the Viair 88P.  It will be my next air compressor, as soon as my Kobalt tire inflator bites the dust.  Come to think of it, maybe I won't even wait for that!

 

Bruce

Unfortunately, my VIAIR 88P seems to have died on me the second time I put it to use.  I was topping off the tires on my TV when the VIAIR made a phhht sound, and stopped pushing air.  I replaced the 20 amp blade fuse in the cord, but it still doesn't work.  I'm open to suggestions from anyone who knows more about these than I do.

 

Don

Contacted the company and they are sending me a replacement at no charge.

Don

Great news & service!  

I thought so too.  The VIAIR 88P gets great on-line reviews, and has gotten high marks from LOA members.  I was stumped when it died last Sunday.  I should have the replacement tomorrow, which is good since we're leaving on a 1,500 road trip to Texas with the TT.

Don

So glad you went to use it BEFORE your big trip instead of finding out it died on the road somewhere when you were counting on it to do its job.
Have fun! 

Oh yeah.  I can't remember the last time I had to put on a spare.  Just plug the tire while it's still on your rig, inflate, and go.  Pretty standard repair here in Alaska, and for good reason. It works well.  A plug kit isn't likely to cost you as much as a single tire repair in a shop, yet it's good for many repairs.  Replacement plugs and cement are even cheaper and readily available.

 

Funny thing, for every tire of my own I patch, I do at least 4 or 5 repairs for others folks with flats found alongside the road.  Most notable repair was 2 flats at once on our 4-horse trailer.... With horses aboard.  Didn't even want to think about unloading 4 horses and corralling them while I jacked up the trailer, and I sure wasn't going to jack it up with restless 1300# horses aboard.

 

You'll be especially glad to have a plug kit if you ever have two flats at once, but only one spare!

Received the replacement in the mail yesterday.  As soon as we get back to Colorado Springs (we're in The Colony, TX, with the TV and TT, until next Tuesday) I'll mail the defective one back to the company.

 

Don

Great news Don. 
Let us know how the first use goes as well as future uses.

I wonder if they will tell you what went wrong. Well I know ours is different, we have an onboard compressor, I like to run it once in awhile to keep the air pressure up and mechanically have things working. I don't know but I like getting all my mechanical stuff up to temperature once in awhile. Glad that you've had a good responce from the company.

Glad you had some good response.  We, too, have the Viair 88P based on LOA recommendations.  Just had to use it twice in the last couple of weeks on the TV (in the garage, not on the road!--due to tire installer error) and it worked great and faster than I thought it would.  Also carry, but not yet needed, plug kit.

 

Happy Trails.

diamonds -

How long have you owned yours?  How long between running it at purchase and your latest use?

 

I am very interested, but at the moment waiting for some time to pass (at least a few months) to see how Don's replacement works after some down time since his first one worked upon purchase, but then had trouble after sitting for a while (3 months).

 I used the new one for the first time four days ago to top off the TV and TT tires, and it worked fine.  I'll post updates as I use it again. 

 

Don