I’m not sure about you but keeping our Motorhome tyres inflated to the right pressure never seems to be easy; not until now anyway.

Actually finding out what our Motorhome tyre pressure is supposed to be is difficult in itself and seems to be a closely guarded secret.  Our previous Motorhome was the same and I’m sure yours is no different.  The Peugeot handbook gives you the tyre pressures but of course these are for the Boxer van and the Autocruise Starseeker handbook doesn’t mention it.  I have discovered though from talking to my dealer that they should be 60psi; now that wasn’t difficult was it; well yes actually it was.

That actually turned out to be the easy part after all.  The hard part is keeping them inflated and we all know that over or under inflated tyres wear more and can cause handling problems so it’s in all our best interests to get it right.

Now the fun starts.

I started off with an electric automatic pump that you plug into the lighter socket and off you go.  Well actually no you don’t because at 60psi the gauge is not accurate, the thing kept stopping for no reason and in the end I decided it couldn’t hack it so I’d go for a foot pump.

OK, so for those of you that have used one of these foot pumps you’ll know that they are extremely unstable and the frame tends to twist if they’re not on very level ground and then the thing collapses from under your foot.  Rubbish.  I tried another and another but with the same result.  You can stop laughing now thanks.

What can I do?  Oh I know, you’re not using the Motorhome every day so the tyres will stay at the right pressure for longer so no need to worry.  Good one that but not quite right.  It’s utterly amazing that in the face of adversity we can convince ourselves of anything.  By the way, waiting for the habitation check once a year is no good either although I did try to convince myself of that one as well.  Insane logic abounds when you’re desperate.

You’ll be pleased to know that I have finally cracked it, I’ve bought a beast.  The king of all foot pumps. The foot pump manna from heaven.  The real McCoy.  A double barrelled shotgun of a foot pump.

Its a Michelin Twin Barrel Footpump that has some great qualities:

• The gauge is accurate up to 100psi; it certainly is up to 60psi at any rate

• The hose is longer than normal so gives a better reach

• The twin barrel pumps would pump up an air balloon

• The stability because of it’s wide spread and bigger feet is amazing

• Your foot rests assuredly on the plate and you feel like you can pump forever

I love it.

If any of you need one of these beasts then get into Halfords as quickly as you can because they are reduced from £34.99 to £19.76 and worth every penny.