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Originally Posted by Ham
Just to update you guys...
Went to Toyota, and the manager did not believe me about having a bad valve until he saw it himself. Even then, he just said that "water must have got in there and frozen, keeping the valve open".
Now this was several days after I had taken the tire off the car, and I always had a valve cap in place, and I had already filled 2 tires with that same air hose, so his explanation dosent make sense to me. Also, he said that this might not happen to me again for another 3 or 4 years as it is pretty rare.
Well I have been driving cars for about 10 years now, and that has never happened to me before, and I have driven without valve caps, and I drove 2 years in frosty Buffalo, NY with its lake efffect snow and never had that happen to me and never heard about it happening.
That combined with the fact that although the dealer said ice was the issue he also said he would replace the valve under warranty makes it seem to me that the valve was defective.
In any event, I am back on a real tire now and I am very happy to put the small spare back in the trunk.
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It sounds like one of those "I have no idea why it failed" answers. Dirt, ice, anything could have stopped up a valve stem. It might have even come off the last compressor nozzle you used... or it could have been a bad valvestem. But for the cost of a valvestem it wasn't worth trying to figure it out.
At least its fixed now and I don't think you'll have any more problems. I doubt its the sign of any implicit problem with the valvestems. You probably just got UNlucky. There are always going to be a few defective parts out there unfortunately.