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I had blue anodized on my wheels/tires and come time to rotate tires after the winter here and they became part of the stem(literally) could not get them off ...had to use a vicegrip twisting while holding stem. You're in Texas so prob won't be a problem. those fkrs suck! went back to the plastic black ones.
I also went back to the plastic one.
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I had blue anodized on my wheels/tires and come time to rotate tires after the winter here and they became part of the stem(literally) could not get them off ...had to use a vicegrip twisting while holding stem. You're in Texas so prob won't be a problem. those fkrs suck! went back to the plastic black ones.
Use anti seize and shouldnt have an issue.
 

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I had the red valve stem caps. I had two of them seize up on the stem and they were a pain in the butt to remove. If you keep those on, put some anti seize on them and save yourself a couple hours of hassle.
Didn't work - I had to grind them off with a dremel type tool ... here's a video on You Tube on how to do it properly.
My advice to anyone who has these fancy anodized valve caps from eBay/amazon and has to drive in winter weather (snow-salt) ... get rid of them before these seize to the valve stem.

My local Jeep dealership quoted me $770 to replace the valve stems/TPMS sensors on all 4 wheels ... what a rip-off !
 

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My advice to anyone who has these fancy anodized valve caps from eBay/amazon and has to drive in winter weather (snow-salt) ... get rid of them before these seize to the valve stem.
Yep. :lipssealed: Something I had to learn through experience (on another vehicle.)
 

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Can you get the correct spray paint color and re-paint them?
I'm sure you could. Matching might still be slightly off. But maybe not. The bigger worry would be me mucking them up. Lol.
 
 



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