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Posted: 16 Aug 2006 04:21 pm
by Cornholio
sm89 Nice one!

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 12:21 am
by 340GLT
Ha ha lesson to be learned, if fitting ally valve caps, copper grease the threads!!!!
Adam

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 10:50 am
by Ali
Lol, only just seen this, my mate had exactly the same problem when trying to get the redline valve caps off his corsa :lol:

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 12:14 pm
by SteveP
I think it's well deserved punishment...

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 04:59 pm
by MJ
Sounds a pain, some of those anodized caps do look smart, but they sure cost a lot for a small bit of metal.

Guess what, I'm running original plastic ones :P Well, they may not be original, they may have come with the new tyres...

Do new tyres come with new caps, or do garages just put the old ones back on... I guess it must be the originals or there'd be a lot of waste caps...

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 05:50 pm
by pettaw
Nah, new tyres always come with new valves and caps, the old ones get thrown when they take the old tyres off the rim.

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 06:31 pm
by redline
oh no , shock horror , a non original part has sneaked onto MJ's car while he wasn't looking lol

Posted: 17 Aug 2006 09:10 pm
by MJ
Darn it, oh well, she still has the original cap on the spare wheel, that wheels probably never touched the road :P

Posted: 18 Aug 2006 06:33 am
by Cornholio
I once put some metal caps on Affie's valves. Next time I went to check the tyre pressures they'd gone! Thieving so and so's.

That'd be about the same time that someone went to the trouble of taking one of the plastic things that plug into the front bumpers. Must have been desperate lol

Posted: 21 Aug 2006 01:52 am
by foggyjames
It's a lesson well learned: Rice doesn't pay sm56

cheers

James