Why do people keep stealing the valve caps off my wheels?

Can I just mention that when I was camping, I watched an Indian Myna work on and remove 3 of my mates 4 chrome valve caps.

Just because they are gone,need not mean a human stole them, well in my experience at least.

I recall having this problem many years ago. I got very frustrated with the constant replacing of them and it got to the point where I rang up a local tyre place, and convinced them to sell me a bulk pack of valve caps. The moment I had a hundred caps sitting in my shed, the thieves somehow knew there was no point knicking my valve caps in cars parks anymore and it stopped… a very strange thing indeed. I still have 100 caps in my shed.

As for getting them welded on, it’s not as silly an idea as it might sound. If you have them filled with nitrogen, they put on special caps that can’t be removed without a special tool.

It is just not worth getting good ones. If they are different to the normal valve caps, they will be taken, unless you get them welded on.

The last time I went to blow up my tyres at the servo, I discovered that someone had swiped both valve caps from the right-hand side of my car — the first time I can recall losing valve caps. Seeing I’d previously blown up my tyres just before my recent trip to Melbourne, I don’t know if the theft happened there or in Canberra.

Anything shiney will get stolen. Something similar happened to my dad with his old car, people will steal absolutely anything unfortunately.

I used to have some bling gold valve caps to match the STI wheels on my old scoob, but some lowlife knocked off one side of the car in an open carpark during the day. I figure as only two of the caps were gone it was some prick kid with their bike.

So I took the other two caps off and chucked them on my freeride MTB – if you can’t beat them join them!