Did they send me the wrong part?
 

So I bought my car a month ago. Since the first day I noticed all my valve stem caps were missing. I bought my car kinda far from home and I can't drive there. For a whole month I've been trying to get them to mail the caps to me. After a lot of lies and excuses I finally get them today.
The caps they sent me are plastic and a dark grey and I have a feeling they don't belong to my car. I have the 19' sport package wheels. Aren't they supposed to be metal?
Do ur sport package valve stem caps look like these:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...i/144dc8f1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...i/b54bfab8.jpg

plz help
thx for ur time

Huh, I didn't get my caps either. I'm pretty sure those are the right ones. The ones on my G were metal and thin but was at times hard to thread it back on.

I'm using my SSR wheel valve caps. :p

here are what their supposed to look like WARNING BIG PICS. lol
http://images56.fotki.com/v1598/phot...SCF0803-vi.jpg
http://images56.fotki.com/v526/photo...SCF0802-vi.jpg

Thx triple!! Ur the man
these just felt so cheap and they came wraped with tape and got all sticky. Freaken stealership! I waited a lot for these things...

Mine looks like Triples. NO plastic.

when I bought mine I noticed that mine were missing also so I went back to the dealer and told the salesman about it and he took a look at the car and said that was strange that they were missing so he took me to the back of the dealership to where they held the new cars not yet ready for sale, and walked of to a white z and removed them from that one, and handed me the caps... like wtf a new owner was going to buy that z and be in the same boat i was or may not even notice... anyways they sent you a set of generic caps which will work but aren't the OG part :tiphat:

My sport came with the plastic caps also. They though they looked strange next to the metal stems.

mine came with aluminum tips that say "Nitrogen only" pretty fancy.

If they put Nitrogen on your tires the caps will look different too, however they're metal not cheap plastic.

mine were the gray plastic on the sport package.

Time to make fun of me... But why nitrogen in the tires?

supposedly its a more stable molecule than oxygen when heated, tire pressure is supposed to remain more consistent.

tire pumps put fill tires with air. The following is the chemical makeup of air:

Nitrogen (N2) 78.08
Oxygen (O2) 20.95
Argon (Ar) 0.93
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) 0.033
Other trace elements 0.007


So is 100% nitrogen really that much better than air. How much does it cost to fill tires with nitrogen?

Please keep it on topic!

Theres a thread for the Nitrogen in tires questions

Looked it up. Thx

So now I'm a little confused. I was planning to complain to the dealer tomorrow... Hmmmm

Mine came with plastic ones too. My 350z came with metal ones. But does it really matter if it's plastic or metal? hehe

Thats question? How much trouble will you go to for the correct ones?
Since for me the dealer was near by I had no problem going back to bitch.

mine came with the cheap gray plastic ones all around just like the op's,

and i too got the 19" sport package rims/aka i got the sport package

i solved my problem by switching them with the black ones on my siblings VW, they are still plastic but now they are black. i didnt even tell her i swapped them, lol

Nice Guy ^^

I cannot believe Nissan is selling these cheap plastic caps to people with the sport package.

I have the sport package and I have the metal caps and the black plastic caps would look horrible IMO.

I'd complain and try and get the right ones.

I was just thinking of getting better looking aftermarket caps

:iagree:

Is it possible that 09 Z with sport package got the metal valve caps and 2010s are plastic? My car and Triples car are 09.

for the record my 09 370z also has metal caps

my 09 has metal caps as well

Metal caps here.

Starting to look like Nissan cheaped out on the caps for 2010.

Fixed :tup:

My 09 sport also has metal caps

I understand your issue but I think the real question is, does it matter?

if you get metal ones, or 'Chromies' the kids on bikes love to come by and steal them. why don't you just go to a car wash or advance auto parts or something and by a set of metal ones for 4 bucks if the plastic bothers you.