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Date:         Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:14:13 -0800
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Tire weiredness
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Jim Morgan wrote: >> It seems that the stock gray plastic wheel cover has >> rotated its self and cut the valve stem producing a >> very slow leak.

I wonder if this is the reason that, when I got new tires installed at Sears last weekend (for my daily driver, not the Westy), they installed valve stems with a metal shank around them. Perhaps the growing popularity of plastic wheel covers has been chewing up a lot of valve stems?

Never seen these before, except as flashy chrome accessory add-ons at the auto parts store. Even came with metal screw-on caps.

And my car doesn't even HAVE wheel covers ...

"OK, I'll leave it at that since I've already gone on for far too long about something I don't know a whole lot about ..."

Jeffrey Earl 1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"

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