{"id":3415,"date":"2017-09-18T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2017-09-18T06:00:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T10:00:46","slug":"aftermarket-valve-stem-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/18\/aftermarket-valve-stem-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Aftermarket Valve Stem Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One area of cars that people like to customize that is surprising to me is the valve stems on the wheels. They&#8217;re such small, easily overlooked parts, yet some people care about them enough to buy special caps to change the look of them. A lot of times that doesn&#8217;t have any negative affect. I have heard of a time when a customer had valve stem caps so heavy that they caused a vibration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3422\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2017_09_18_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_09_18_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On this particular car, the caps were a problem. They came in to get all four tires replaced. The issue I had was that the customer&#8217;s valve stem caps were metal and had corroded onto the stems, so much so that I could only get one of them off. I tried to get the others off but with no success. I ended up having to drill holes in the tires to get the air out, then replacing all the valve stems.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One area of cars that people like to customize that is surprising to me is the valve stems on the wheels. They&#8217;re such small, easily overlooked parts, yet some people care about them enough to buy special caps to change the look of them. A lot of times that doesn&#8217;t have any negative affect. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-wheels-tires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}