Many of us will have been pleasantly surprised by the gift through the post from Land Rover of valve caps when we bought our cars.
I'm no longer a fan of them.
Today driving home the TPMS came up and I noticed the software update had changed the graphic since the last flat. No problem I thought, nearly home I will get the compressor out and top it up.
That's where the fun started. Could I get those nice caps off? Could I heck. Now I had heard of after market caps corroding on but I guessed that JRL would have selected ones that wouldn't do that. How wrong I was.
Had to use pliers to gently ease them of to avoid damaging the stem.
Then I thought I'd check the other tyres. I suspect they were not checked on the recent health check at the dealer, maybe because the valve caps wouldn't come off. To get new caps on I had to use the dremmel with a wire brush on it to clean up the threads.
I feel a complaint coming on.
In this photo I had already inflated the two off side tyres.
My advice to anyone who had the "free gift" is to go straight outside to see if you can take them off. Take care as snapping a stem will result in an expensive visit to the dealers.
I'm no longer a fan of them.
Today driving home the TPMS came up and I noticed the software update had changed the graphic since the last flat. No problem I thought, nearly home I will get the compressor out and top it up.
That's where the fun started. Could I get those nice caps off? Could I heck. Now I had heard of after market caps corroding on but I guessed that JRL would have selected ones that wouldn't do that. How wrong I was.
Had to use pliers to gently ease them of to avoid damaging the stem.
Then I thought I'd check the other tyres. I suspect they were not checked on the recent health check at the dealer, maybe because the valve caps wouldn't come off. To get new caps on I had to use the dremmel with a wire brush on it to clean up the threads.
I feel a complaint coming on.
In this photo I had already inflated the two off side tyres.
My advice to anyone who had the "free gift" is to go straight outside to see if you can take them off. Take care as snapping a stem will result in an expensive visit to the dealers.