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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 14 February 2016, 18:29:02
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I can't believe how tight they are.
Even gripping the rubber valve stem with a pair of pliers wrapped in a rag, combined with a socket on the hexagonal cap, won't shift the little bastard. :-\
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Metal ones?
Leave alone, take to a tyre place and then try removing so they can stick new valves in for you easily enough ;)
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Metal ones?
Leave alone, take to a tyre place and then try removing so they can stick new valves in for you easily enough ;)
Yep......complete with natty Vauxhall logo. :-\
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The metal caps and the valve thread corrode and stick. If you reuse, grease lightly to reduce reoccurrence.
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Metal ones?
Leave alone, take to a tyre place and then try removing so they can stick new valves in for you easily enough ;)
Yep......complete with natty Vauxhall logo. :-\
Leave well alone until you can get to a tyre place ;)
I've experienced it ::) Well, my neighbour has ::)
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Chisel the little fickers off :y
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The metal caps and the valve thread corrode and stick. If you reuse, grease lightly to reduce reoccurrence.
No problems with plastic caps. :-\
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Metal ones?
Leave alone, take to a tyre place and then try removing so they can stick new valves in for you easily enough ;)
Yep......complete with natty Vauxhall logo. :-\
I had to saw part way through mine and then split them down the side. I put Molyslip on the replacements and kept getting them nicked so I gave up and switched back to plastic caps. ::)
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Yep i had ali ones and they corroded to the valve......all i did was used a hacksaw blade and carefully cut a slit and then prized open with a small screw driver...only use plastic ones now.. ;D ;D
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I can't believe how tight they are.
Even gripping the rubber valve stem with a pair of pliers wrapped in a rag, combined with a socket on the hexagonal cap, won't shift the little bastard. :-\
Metal caps are a bloody nuisance,a Dremel with a cutting wheel makes light work of them :y
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Metal caps are a bloody nuisance,a Dremel with a cutting wheel makes light work of them :y
...... makes mental note to check the metal dust caps on the Merc before it goes back to Mercedes again again (not a typo) for for them to sort the Airmatic ???
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So you didn't use a torque wrench when you last put them back on? ::) :D
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Metal caps are a bloody nuisance,a Dremel with a cutting wheel makes light work of them :y
...... makes mental note to check the metal dust caps on the Merc before it goes back to Mercedes again again (not a typo) for for them to sort the Airmatic ???
I thought it had been sorted already, Mr B...eanz.
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Metal caps are a bloody nuisance,a Dremel with a cutting wheel makes light work of them :y
...... makes mental note to check the metal dust caps on the Merc before it goes back to Mercedes again again (not a typo) for for them to sort the Airmatic ???
I thought it had been sorted already, Mr B...eanz.
It should have been. When I spoke to the service manager earlier in the week, he'd said they couldn't find a fault, he'd looked at it each morning & evening & it'd behaved :-\. I collected the car again last Thursday, but by the following morning it'd already got a list on it .... 20 mm difference between each side and a few hours later it'd dropped another 10mm on the driver's side. I've just dropped it off with them again but before I started it up the front was stupidly low. I'll mightily p'd off if they try the no fault found again routine. I sent him yet more pictures on Friday of what it looks like so he can't claim that I'm making it up.
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Metal caps are a bloody nuisance,a Dremel with a cutting wheel makes light work of them :y
...... makes mental note to check the metal dust caps on the Merc before it goes back to Mercedes again again (not a typo) for for them to sort the Airmatic ???
I thought it had been sorted already, Mr B...eanz.
It should have been. When I spoke to the service manager earlier in the week, he'd said they couldn't find a fault, he'd looked at it each morning & evening & it'd behaved :-\. I collected the car again last Thursday, but by the following morning it'd already got a list on it .... 20 mm difference between each side and a few hours later it'd dropped another 10mm on the driver's side. I've just dropped it off with them again but before I started it up the front was stupidly low. I'll mightily p'd off if they try the no fault found again routine. I sent him yet more pictures on Friday of what it looks like so he can't claim that I'm making it up.
It makes you wonder how hard they looked. :-\
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It makes you wonder how hard they looked. :-\
It does indeed ........ :-\
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Dr Opti, maybe a daft question, but have you checked they aren't the anti-theft type?
Some of them have a small allen-type grub screw in them to discourage little scrotes from pinching them while your car is parked up.
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It makes you wonder how hard they looked. :-\
I think Andy needs to make sure the tech doesn't walk with the aid of a white stick..
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It makes you wonder how hard they looked. :-\
I think Andy needs to make sure the tech doesn't walk with the aid of a white stick..
Trouble is nowadays if the computer says no fault found then they are fooked,no-one like to get there hands dirty any more :'(
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Very true Henry!
I can almost imagine the scene.. Mercedes tech walks out to car obviously doing a tripod impression, plugs his laptop in, says "NFF", shrugs his shoulders and wanders back into the warm to tell the boss there's nothing wrong with it.. ;D
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Trouble is nowadays if the computer says no fault found then they are fooked,no-one like to get there hands dirty any more :'(
And that, I think, is the problem. The service manager said when I collected it last week .... 'we can't find a fault, we've even had it plugged in' ..... It looks like the hallo'd STAR has failed ..... or its operator has. ::)