The editorial side of BAT Auto gets reached out to once and awhile to review automotive products. I was recently contacted by Audew to review a few of their products. This will be the first of a three part series.
The first product Audew sent to me was a 12v tire inflator. It gets power via a 12v cigarette outlet in your car. I think they are targeting an audience such as husbands who would buy for the product for their wife or kids. Overall I would not buy this device for myself, but I want to be clear about why and where it is good and bad.
http://bit.ly/2DWnHVs
Your daughter calls you from high school. She has an old car that you handed down to her. While the tires seemed fine when she went to school in the morning, now one of them is flat and she does not know what to do. Luckily you bought this Audew tire inflator thing. You even showed her how to use it. So you tell your daughter that you are stuck at work, but she can inflate her own tire and limp home to avoid the hassle and cost of getting a tow. When she gets home, you will fix it.
That situation might work, but I struggle to see how in most cases this device is that useful because of how slow and weak the device is. It takes a couple minutes (and feels like forever) to raise the PSI a couple pounds. When I tried inflating a pool toy with the device I got so frustrated that I switched to a hand pump. Now everything else about the device I actually like. It is compact, comes with a number of nice attachments, hooks well to the tires. It even comes with spare tire stem caps and automatically senses the pressure of the tire shutting off when the pressure rises to whatever you set for it to be.
But the slowness is brutal and restrictive. For me at least, I am keeping my hand gauge in my glove box and hand pump in the back of my car for emergency air.
Pluses
* Easy digital display
* Simple operation
* Shuts off when reaches pressure setting
* Comes with extra tips and caps
Negative
* Weak and therefore slow
A final note. When I mentioned my feedback on the device to Audew they were open to my response. Their marketing department is very responsive and nice.
R
The first product Audew sent to me was a 12v tire inflator. It gets power via a 12v cigarette outlet in your car. I think they are targeting an audience such as husbands who would buy for the product for their wife or kids. Overall I would not buy this device for myself, but I want to be clear about why and where it is good and bad.

http://bit.ly/2DWnHVs
Your daughter calls you from high school. She has an old car that you handed down to her. While the tires seemed fine when she went to school in the morning, now one of them is flat and she does not know what to do. Luckily you bought this Audew tire inflator thing. You even showed her how to use it. So you tell your daughter that you are stuck at work, but she can inflate her own tire and limp home to avoid the hassle and cost of getting a tow. When she gets home, you will fix it.
That situation might work, but I struggle to see how in most cases this device is that useful because of how slow and weak the device is. It takes a couple minutes (and feels like forever) to raise the PSI a couple pounds. When I tried inflating a pool toy with the device I got so frustrated that I switched to a hand pump. Now everything else about the device I actually like. It is compact, comes with a number of nice attachments, hooks well to the tires. It even comes with spare tire stem caps and automatically senses the pressure of the tire shutting off when the pressure rises to whatever you set for it to be.
But the slowness is brutal and restrictive. For me at least, I am keeping my hand gauge in my glove box and hand pump in the back of my car for emergency air.
Pluses
* Easy digital display
* Simple operation
* Shuts off when reaches pressure setting
* Comes with extra tips and caps
Negative
* Weak and therefore slow
A final note. When I mentioned my feedback on the device to Audew they were open to my response. Their marketing department is very responsive and nice.
R
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