Yeah so you just had to mount new tires on bare rims and screw together a new sensor? Let's completely ignore that I've been talking about REPLACING tires this whole time and subtract the lifting of the vehicle, unbolting tires, dismounting old tires, disassembling TPMS and installing a new valve.

And I'm not sure how you think I'm a rookie when you don't even know who or where I am, maybe relative to you but I hardly see how that makes me any less knowledgeable or seasoned than yourself. I work at one of the highest volume stores in the country. I feel I'd be making a safe bet to say I see just as many vehicles a day as you if not more and the way things are done haven't changed significantly since TPMS came out so "seasoned" is a pretty relative term.

And you just "know" how tight to get it? Just like you know how tight to hammer the lug nuts on right?

Be honest with me do you charge for rebuild kits? And if so when and how much? Just ball park average.

 

As far as I'm concerned this conversation is over, you can b/s the masses but not me.

I base my opinion of you being a rookie by the simple fact I know how long the procedures take and how much they should cost.

I don't charge anyone for new valve stems, I no longer work in the civilian world of auto repair, I use a torque wrench on ALL lug nuts, too easy to warp brake rotors if you don't.

Why the proper way to torque lugs comes into play is more b/s to string along your excuses to rip people off by calling it a rebuild kit and charging more.

If I already had stems/tpms sensors installed it's still as simple as unscrewing a screw and you know it, so add another 1 min, now were up to a whopping 7 mins per wheel with no tire machine for new install, about the same amount of time if you have to break down an old tire, I'll give that another 2 mins per wheel and that's being generous.

Keep selling it, but do it to your self because you can't sell me when I know for a fact the entire procedure for R&R.

I can see charging more but only a dollar or so for the added brass required in the stem to make the connection for the sensor, I can also understand charging more if you have to train the new sensors to the system, but all in all it's a scam calling it something it's not.

 

there's a lesson here... yes .. you can re-use them.. lol

 

I don't like to. I've only had to do it a couple of times when the new Tundras came out and we didn't have kits available for their TPMS system yet. They no longer have the brass collar and look like a regular valve.

But yes we made it work with a lot of lube.

 

Really?

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/p/d...ntent=10037143

 

Look man idk why you are trying to be so argumentative with me. You are knowledgeable and give good info here on the forums. I don't like broccoli, you can't argue me into liking it. You think the valves and replacement o-rings shouldn't be called rebuild kits and are a rip off. Great! I won't try to convince you differently, and I don't like them anymore than you, but it IS something that has to be done.

The rebuild kit you posted isn't the one I was referring to nor would it even work with the vehicle.

It has a square insertion peg, no brass collar, and uses a regular valve cap.

 

I'm not being argumentative, I'm stating fact. It's a valve stem no more no less, to call it a rebuild kit is only literature designed to deceive, like it or not I call it like I see it.

 

That's fine.

But you are trying to be argumentative when you quote something I say and then try to make me somehow look like the "rookie" you have labeled me, when in fact your information was wrong.

Looking at my previous post however I said new Tundras when I should have said new Dodge for that VS-65 valve stem. My mistake there.

 

Neither of which has a damn thing to do with a Ford truck. Everything I have stated is a FACT and whether you like it or not your the one that's wrong.


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Alright bud as long as you're done.