Learn how valve stem safety and service impacts tire performance, shop efficiency, and your customer's safety.

Valve stems on Budd wheels, dual wheels and some equipment wheels can be in plain sight, but at just enough angle so it’s impossible to get a tire pressure gauge or air chuck on the Schrader valve.

There are many types of gauge, but they all essentially work the same way and fit a standardized tire valve stem. Compressed air is commonly supplied (sometimes at a cost) at gas stations ...