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Depends on how fast and how far you need to pump up your tires.

I purchased and mounted the Harbor Freight 12v 150 PSI Compact Air Compressor which works pretty good if you just need to top off your tires, but when I needed it to pump up a tire from 20 psi to 82 psi recently which had picked up a nail (very slow link); it got so hot by 77 psi that it melted the cheap expandable hose by the pump outlet which burst.

So needing a new air compressor and having heard good things about the Ryobi System One compressor, and happen to have several 4 AH System One batteries on me at the time (we were having a work weekend at my wife's Aunt's house to make repairs as she is widowed) I headed down to Home Depot and picked one up for $25 (less the Military discount) and used that to finish the job. I was quite impressed with it and it will now live in my RV tool storage area.