Obvious - once it's pointed out
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Do not use metal caps on tyre valves. The different metals react, form a bond and won't come undone. However careful you are, you'll wring the neck of the valve.
£75 to have the tyres taken off, valves replaced, tyres on, wheels balanced.
Yes, I could have checked more often, but the car has a pressure loss warning. I could have put a smear of Vaseline on the thread of the valve. I know now. I've been driving since the Dark Ages, never used metal caps. Found out the hard way. Obvious really.
£75 to have the tyres taken off, valves replaced, tyres on, wheels balanced.
Yes, I could have checked more often, but the car has a pressure loss warning. I could have put a smear of Vaseline on the thread of the valve. I know now. I've been driving since the Dark Ages, never used metal caps. Found out the hard way. Obvious really.
MDMA . said:
DickyC said:
Bohemian Rhapsody was Freddie Mercury's coming out speech. It opens with gay Freddie killing off straight Freddie. Obvious really.
Quite. DickyC said:
MDMA . said:
DickyC said:
Bohemian Rhapsody was Freddie Mercury's coming out speech. It opens with gay Freddie killing off straight Freddie. Obvious really.
Quite. That's not just one of those musical coincidences. Jake White admitted as much!
StevieBee said:
Well, if we're doing music; White Stripes' Seven Nation Army is a rip-off of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 5.
That's not just one of those musical coincidences. Jake White admitted as much!
Well have a listen to Adam & the Ants Prince Charming followed by War Canoe by Rolf Harris, from 15 years earlier. That's not just one of those musical coincidences. Jake White admitted as much!
DickyC said:
Do not use metal caps on tyre valves. The different metals react, form a bond and won't come undone. However careful you are, you'll wring the neck of the valve.
£75 to have the tyres taken off, valves replaced, tyres on, wheels balanced.
Yes, I could have checked more often, but the car has a pressure loss warning. I could have put a smear of Vaseline on the thread of the valve. I know now. I've been driving since the Dark Ages, never used metal caps. Found out the hard way. Obvious really.
Yep, I put a set on a car once, because they looked nice, I found this out. Fortunately, I got them off without new valves. Never again.£75 to have the tyres taken off, valves replaced, tyres on, wheels balanced.
Yes, I could have checked more often, but the car has a pressure loss warning. I could have put a smear of Vaseline on the thread of the valve. I know now. I've been driving since the Dark Ages, never used metal caps. Found out the hard way. Obvious really.
Megaflow said:
Yep, I put a set on a car once, because they looked nice, I found this out. Fortunately, I got them off without new valves. Never again.
Had to dremel a seized one (had already tried WD40, Plusgas, heat, pliers etc). Fortunately managed to do it without damaging the valve or the thread.normalbloke said:
Nothing does the job better than original plastic caps, with the o ring in. £4 for a bag of plenty, to allow for mishaps.
Megaflow said:
Yep, I put a set on a car once, because they looked nice, I found this out. Fortunately, I got them off without new valves. Never again.
Same, learned this lesson the hard way about twenty years ago.Fortunately I realised the issue before damaging the valve stem, and was able to Dremel a slot in the caps and get them off without needing the valves replaced.
g3org3y said:
Megaflow said:
Yep, I put a set on a car once, because they looked nice, I found this out. Fortunately, I got them off without new valves. Never again.
Had to dremel a seized one (had already tried WD40, Plusgas, heat, pliers etc). Fortunately managed to do it without damaging the valve or the thread.normalbloke said:
Nothing does the job better than original plastic caps, with the o ring in. £4 for a bag of plenty, to allow for mishaps.
The bang, if you're interested, was very loud. The scream of the air escaping was ear-splitting. My ears hurt for two hours afterwards. Cheaper than Zeppelin concert, I suppose.
DickyC said:
Do not use metal caps on tyre valves. The different metals react, form a bond and won't come undone. However careful you are, you'll wring the neck of the valve.
£75 to have the tyres taken off, valves replaced, tyres on, wheels balanced.
Yes, I could have checked more often, but the car has a pressure loss warning. I could have put a smear of Vaseline on the thread of the valve. I know now. I've been driving since the Dark Ages, never used metal caps. Found out the hard way. Obvious really.
They are truly awful. I had them on my Z4M and they chemically bonded. I tried to remove them but ended up damaging the valve.£75 to have the tyres taken off, valves replaced, tyres on, wheels balanced.
Yes, I could have checked more often, but the car has a pressure loss warning. I could have put a smear of Vaseline on the thread of the valve. I know now. I've been driving since the Dark Ages, never used metal caps. Found out the hard way. Obvious really.
Luckily having a great local garage, the owner came over, jacked it up, took the wheel away, replaced the valve and didn't charge me a penny.
I will always use this garage!
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Back in my day the metal caps were made from brass, then nickel plated. These being the made from the same material as the valve stem meant that no galvanic corrosion occurred, and the caps didn't become bonded. They were, however, more expensive to fabricate than aluminium caps, and here we are, suffering with seized caps.
Nickel plated brass caps are still available by the way.
Back in my day the metal caps were made from brass, then nickel plated. These being the made from the same material as the valve stem meant that no galvanic corrosion occurred, and the caps didn't become bonded. They were, however, more expensive to fabricate than aluminium caps, and here we are, suffering with seized caps.
Nickel plated brass caps are still available by the way.
gazza285 said:
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Back in my day the metal caps were made from brass, then nickel plated. These being the made from the same material as the valve stem meant that no galvanic corrosion occurred, and the caps didn't become bonded. They were, however, more expensive to fabricate than aluminium caps, and here we are, suffering with seized caps.
Nickel plated brass caps are still available by the way.
Back in my day the metal caps were made from brass, then nickel plated. These being the made from the same material as the valve stem meant that no galvanic corrosion occurred, and the caps didn't become bonded. They were, however, more expensive to fabricate than aluminium caps, and here we are, suffering with seized caps.
Nickel plated brass caps are still available by the way.
I have a set of chromed brass ones but they're so heavy I suspect they'll upset the wheel balance. They remain on the shelf.
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