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03-27-2014, 09:23 PM
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Tire valve caps.
So.. I bought some TRD valve caps off ebay for I think 5.99 for my FR-S. They look nice, all aluminum and who cares they are valve caps right?
Well the shop I had a scuff taken care of who is owned by the dealership that I bought my FR-S from lost two of them... They offered to mail me some but ended up just driving across the street to the Toyota dealership and taking a pair and handing them to me. I took a picture of it ... LOOK at the marked PRICE.. WTF?!  Good thing they were FREE! rofl...
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Be careful aluminum will seize on the brass valves within a year forcing you to risk shredding the rubber on the valves with pliers or slicing the caps off with a Dremel. If you do use these caps make sure you slather them with anti seize. I had this happen to me on my Si last year.
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03-27-2014, 09:50 PM
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03-27-2014, 10:09 PM
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Yes, but look how nicely they're packaged .....
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03-27-2014, 11:00 PM
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The inside of these actually looks brass there's definitely two metals used in this, Way better than the Ebay ones I had before lol.. but still..
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03-27-2014, 11:27 PM
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I bought some similar ones. They are nice
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