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Mana: 
  Posted: Sun Mar 27th, 2005 02:29 am
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Word of advice for everyone.........
if you are planning on buying these dumb shit little valve stem caps, the chrome one's and they come in all differrent colors, don't! Or if you do, don't be like me and leave them on all winter without at least checking them. I had these little ****ers on the Exploder and they rusted onto the whole valve stem, well we sprayed WD-40 to see if they would come lose and today, the whole valve stem came off, and well the tire went flat.
I feel soooo stupid. Now I have to go buy the whole valve stem for now , until I get new tires! And good thing it happened now, because I had gotten some for the Focus, that say Focus on them and well, good thing I didn't put those on.
Anyway, yeah, stick to the rubber one's.
Just a word of advice.


Ok, I am done.


P.S they got stuck on all 4 of them. Ugh. :banned



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Mana: 
  Posted: Sun Mar 27th, 2005 02:55 am
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Wow Carmen that sucks! Thanks for the heads-up though...



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Mana: 
  Posted: Sun Mar 27th, 2005 11:16 am
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you can but them...put antisieze lube on them before applying.....it was on the instuctiosn for the ones I purchased.....that way they wont corrode.:gofast



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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Mar 28th, 2005 03:16 pm
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Ya. ;looser You should have know not to use metal valve caps in the wintah.. sheesh;ohno

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;jkm I bet you know now.....;hysterical



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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Mar 28th, 2005 03:22 pm
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I'll smack him for you Carmen..he's coming home for lunch..I'll get him then. :chair

Oh, btw - Amsoil make a very nice lubricant that would work on these. ;devil



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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Mar 28th, 2005 03:41 pm
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Yeah, yeah the laugh is on me. Anyway, we got it fixed up, the tire is holding well, so now new tires!!!

BTW: I don't care what works to keep these little fuckers from sticking forever, i am sticking to rubber from now on!!

 

Hey anyone want this special Focus one's?? LOL :gofast



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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2005 02:48 am
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Just a thought lol...I work at Les SChwab in Washington and i know we have like 4 million valve cores just laying around. Before you go buy some. Just go ask your local tire place if you can have 4 lol. Oh and i have chrome valve caps on my car, and they did just fine this winter and i have had no problems with them. Also came from Schwabies so yah. To bad we are only on the west coast huh lol?

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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2005 04:13 pm
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I just use the black plastic ones. The amount of time the nicer ones last on my car when I leave it in a parking lot can be measured in tenths of a second.:(



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  Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2005 04:18 pm
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Codger wrote: I just use the black plastic ones. The amount of time the nicer ones last on my car when I leave it in a parking lot can be measured in tenths of a second.:(I got Chelly some locking valve caps. We'll see how long thosw ones last.. ;hysterical



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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2005 04:19 pm
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fx3 wrote: Codger wrote: I just use the black plastic ones. The amount of time the nicer ones last on my car when I leave it in a parking lot can be measured in tenths of a second.:(I got Chelly some locking valve caps. We'll see how long thosw ones last.. ;hysterical
bite your tongue!;slap



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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Apr 12th, 2005 05:09 pm
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Tried those. The little buggers just cut off the valve stems with side cutters or some such. Came back to the parkade to find 4 flats.



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