gideon-sf

Hi All,
Been a while since on this forum, but that's a good thing since means the car has been running well and survived another winter in tahoe without being in a ditch like countless others...

Car has a consistent very slow leak ~2psi/week on my nokian wr 18"
Brought it in to a reputable tire shop (larkin bros san francisco) and they charged me 25 to fix, but hasn't fixed the prob (they never said what they did and I didnt ask as they are very busy

brought it back today and they said there are some bubbles near the stem, they tightened it but said I need a new one and have to order from audi

Should I bother to order online to go to the dealer?
I did some quick googling and searched this forum, allroadfaq and ebay for stems
stock 18" rims, non tpms (to my knowledge)

If online, does someone have a url for that?
Can one just buy the seals? or does it just make sense to buy the whole thing?

Seems they cost about $30

Also saw some posts about rubber stems...

Thanks
Gideon

PS here's some recent tahoe carnage (not our car)

gragravar

valve stems? the tire shop didnt have any? my car just uses whatever discount tire has around when they put on the tires.

gideon-sf

thanks for info, I went to another tire place and they fixed it with a regular valve stem and didn't even charge for the work!
-1 for Larkin Bros
+1 for Robert's tires
(both in SF)

gragravar

glad it worked out

Flexia

That's one crappy tire shop. The one piece one cost like 30 cents and the 2 piece chrome are like $1. I used to work at a tire shop and if some one was asking for a valve we would just had them a few. That's a really bad shop.