sdscuba

I had 2 valve stems fail in the last 2 weeks and did a search on here and found others have had the same problems, so I was curious as to how many this has happened to. Stock tires less than 2 1/2 years old with 53,000 miles.

TAS05CTD610

What exactly failed on the valve stem?? Was it leaking, did it blow out, did it tear?? I've never had a valve stem failure on any of my vehicles, off road, rock buggy, ATV Boat trailer nothing. I've had some core's leak or something (mostly from dirt inside but never fail)

If you could post some pictures, dodge should replace them for free.

TS

ToyKraz

I had both inside wheel valve stems tear off on my dually. I am 100% sure it is becasue of the added weight of the stem extensions and the vibration they experience at freeway speeds.

BearKiller

The only type of valve-stem that you will ever find in my wheels is the all metal threaded type with the nut and rubber seal.

There is a half-axx, so-called high-pressure rubber pop-in stem, that a lot of people use, that are no more than a more expensive version of the failure-prone rubber stem.

Many times, the cause of a stem failure is someone using the wheel for a step-ladder, they step on the stem, bend it until it gets cut by the rim, and later, it either starts leaking, or blows apart.

Tree roots, etc., can have the same effect.

I have even known dogs to chew on rubber stems, causing them to fail.

JD730

Multiple times with 14.5 trailer tires with cheap tubes. Put a tube in there with a good stem and the problem went away. Like Bearkiller said, most of our tubeless type wheels have the metal threaded style.