I'm picking up a set of Volks here in about a week and getting new valve stems for it. Current stems are silver and I'm getting black. A quick price check of the authentic Volk valve stems reveals a pretty shocking $90 price tag on these things - which I think is complete robbery

Does anyone have any experience with third party valve stems for Volk wheels - specifically TE37s? Here are some on Ebay for $9, which look identical to the Volks: http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-pcs-Univer...-/231272173559

I'm open to other options as well. I'd happily spend up to about $30 or so, but I think $90 is way too much.

What are my options?

 

I havent used any knock off brands but its a simple device so they should work fine. If anything they may discolor but even some rays lug nuts fade pretty quickly.

If you want originals you can get them here for much cheaper than they're sold in the states and shipping should only be $10-$15. I've bought a few things from them to include rays stickers and center caps for my te37s. Everything went well.

http://www.nengun.com/rays/air-valvestem

 

Good catch. The price on that website is about half of what I'm seeing for most vendors here in the US. They do have unusually long lead times on most of their products though.

My main concern with the third party valve stems is the diameter of the stem. When I got my current Work wheels, I absolutely had to buy Work valve stems because they used a non-standard diameter for the stem and ordinary stems would not even fit through the wheels. So long as Volk uses the standard .453" hole, I should be able to buy pretty much any aluminum stem to put in it. I'm having trouble finding the information on the hole size, though.

 

Yea, took me around a month to get my center caps but it was well worth it to save $70 or so.

I put some off the shelf rubber valve stems in my 18" te37s so I imagine they're the .453 size.