I have some 15" Mugen M7's 2 piece on my accord. Ever since i got it, one of the wheels will not hold air. I have even put a new tire on it, and it is still leaking. Apparantly the rubber seal around the valve stem was bad. My father took it to walmart to see if they could replace the seal, and they tried to take the valve stem off by pulling it because they didnt realize it was threaded, and they ended up stripping the stem so I have to completely replace it. I checked every tire shop around town, and no one carries it. I checked online too. Apparantly it is too small or something. Does anyone know what I need to do?

http://store.summitracing.com/...w=sku

someone on hondasociety recomended that to me, but it seems like it would be too big. it says 5/16 hole, and i dont know if that is too big.

can someone please help me? ive been trying to figure this out for a while and i would hate to throw these jdm wheels away just because of a valve stem that walmart stripped.

 

There are several morals to this story. First, don't take your car to wal-mart for auto service!! they are complete idiots. I seriously think they stand there and do their every day job with a pair of vice grips and a crescent wrench. They never fix anything correctly, and 50% of the time the car leaves their shop in worse condition then when it went it.....

Okay, so off of the rant about wal-mart.... find out what size hole your wheels have. As far as I know, 99% of the wheels on the market that most people are going to buy, have the exact same size valve stem hole ( unless you get into certain trucks and farm equipment).... I'm sure you don't need one very specific type of valve stem, so whatever you like, buy ( you might be out 10-20 bucks if they don't work), take to a tire shop, and ask them to put them in. Finally, it is not difficult to find out exactly where your wheel/valve stem/tire is leaking. This is another reason this problem is completely idiotic.... why would you replace a tire without knowing for sure that it's bad? All you have to do is dunk it in some water and see where the air bubbles come from.

 

only couple company make solid valve stem now-a-day, buying a used stem is a stupid idea since most of the seal will be out of shape after years and years of service.

rays still make a solid stem as far as i recall, so is enkei.

i used to have a set of 2 piece enkei that came with those solid stem and they leaks also

 

cool

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mylude90 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">There are several morals to this story. First, don't take your car to wal-mart for auto service!! they are complete idiots. I seriously think they stand there and do their every day job with a pair of vice grips and a crescent wrench. They never fix anything correctly, and 50% of the time the car leaves their shop in worse condition then when it went it.....

Okay, so off of the rant about wal-mart.... find out what size hole your wheels have. As far as I know, 99% of the wheels on the market that most people are going to buy, have the exact same size valve stem hole ( unless you get into certain trucks and farm equipment).... I'm sure you don't need one very specific type of valve stem, so whatever you like, buy ( you might be out 10-20 bucks if they don't work), take to a tire shop, and ask them to put them in. Finally, it is not difficult to find out exactly where your wheel/valve stem/tire is leaking. This is another reason this problem is completely idiotic.... why would you replace a tire without knowing for sure that it's bad? All you have to do is dunk it in some water and see where the air bubbles come from.</TD></TR></TABLE>

the mugen wheel uses an extremely small diameter threaded valve stem which was only used in japan for a few years. this wheel is very rare, its jdm, and it was made about 10 years ago, and this style valve stem really isnt used by anyone anymore. and the air was leaking out of the side of the valve stem, not the tire. the tire was perfectly fine. what ended up happening was i was driving and all the air in that tire leaked out and my tire ended up tearing because of the lack of air pressure. i checked every tire shop around here, even made calls to some in atlanta, and found nothing. i even called a few jdm importers and they couldnt find nothing either.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by iam7head &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">only couple company make solid valve stem now-a-day, buying a used stem is a stupid idea since most of the seal will be out of shape after years and years of service.

rays still make a solid stem as far as i recall, so is enkei.

i used to have a set of 2 piece enkei that came with those solid stem and they leaks also</TD></TR></TABLE>

do you have any advise as to where i could find one in this size or who i could contact?

 

try rbmotoring, they have a bunch of used jdm wheels so they must have some scrape around, not sure will they do all the work searching for you for couple of scrape metal tho'

 

anyone else had this problem before?

 

Hey bro,

I"m pretty sure it's a 5/16 as I said before, however, if you are really unsure about buying it, simply remove the valve stem (double hex nuts on the back) and measure the size of the hole. As long as the hole is 5/16 or slightly bigger u'll be okay. Good luck.