Are all valve stem caps the same? Where do you buy yours?

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My Subaru Forester has some longer-than-usual caps that screw all the way down to the valve stem body. Regular caps won't do that, so I had to order them.
 
Like these?

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They do make checking and adding air more convenient.
The tire guy that does the big rig tires at my work puts those on. I detest them! For one the grooves on them won't hold my automatic inflater and 2nd they make it impossible to inflate the inner tire. I throw them away!
 
I used to use the red yellow and green pressure indicator caps and they saved me from running on a flat tire a few times. I had one fail running tires at 45psi
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and switched to aluminum. Plastic with brass insert is preferable if worried about corrosion but i have had no problems
 
The tire guy that does the big rig tires at my work puts those on. I detest them! For one the grooves on them won't hold my automatic inflater and 2nd they make it impossible to inflate the inner tire. I throw them away!
HAHA I put them on all my big trucks. You can check the pressure in all the tires in under a minute. On dualies I install extensions.

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Where I am if its anything but a black plastic job they will rob it in an minute. In Germany my friend had a Lamborghini Diablo with expensive dealer caps (they might as well have been $10 knockoffs) , they were gone the same day sitting in front of his garage.

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A friend of mine put metal caps on his SUV. The were stolen within a week. He then put locking valve-stem caps on (the use a small key/wrench to remove) and they ended up rusting to the valve stem. Ended up needing to get all new valve stems and went back to plastic caps.
 
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