I thought I had a slow puncture the other week so took it into my local Tyre place and they found I had a front offside leaky valve, so that was fixed but after I washed it today, I found one dust cap missing on the rear and noticed that the wheel weights inside the nearside front wheel had been moved? Is it normal to move the weights? I didn't have a new tyre. I also noticed that the remaining 3 dust caps were not on particularly tight as I know when I check the pressures, I always make sure they are on tight so I suspect ones worked itself off.
The valve can leak if the insert is not tightened home. On the old fashioned sliding rod type pressure gauges there was a forked tooth gadget that could be used to remove or tighten them. The valve could, I suppose, possibly leak from between the valve body and the rim, but only from some impact that I doubt in the case of the OP (
@Chilli Girl )
Only if the valve was removed, and in that case the tyre would be partially removed , would there be a need to rebalance. I'm pretty sure the valve cap would not make any noticeable difference to balance .
Thanks Tony, it's weird I wouldn't have expected the tyre to have been taken off and you're quite correct, I haven't whacked it on anything although the potholes are awful down here! :o
Quote from: Chilli Girl on December 20, 2020, 17:21Thanks Tony, it's weird I wouldn't have expected the tyre to have been taken off and you're quite correct, I haven't whacked it on anything although the potholes are awful down here! :o
Maybe the valve insert was found to be loose and so the mechanic thought better to replace the valve as the existing valve is leaking for some unknown reason.