Anyone else have bad luck with stupid stuff?

[Screw-Rice]

So went to Home Depot an hour ago. Pulled into the lot, and was greeted by my passenger rear tire hissing. Great, yet another busted valve stem. Found a small stick to prop against it to stop it from leaking. Broke out the can of fix a flat in my emergency bag. That didn't do a damn thing, except dirty the wheel, after cleaning them yesterday (I hate chrome wheels). So I limped it home about 2 miles with my ghetto plug.

Rear tires are 2 months old, so they had new stems...or so I hoped, but who knows. Jack ass didn't balance the tires when I bought them, so had to get that done a day later after discovering my cool high speed wobble.

This is the second valve stem to bust on the passenger rear, but have also had one on the driver rear, and one on the driver front. All in the span of 4-5 months.

This isn't a huge ordeal, except it screwed up my night, and I get to visit Discount Tire tomorrow (again), for yet another valve stem replacement...those guys must wonder what it is I do to the car to keep splitting them.

 

[marked8]

This is a Mark VIII forum, do you really have to ask if we have bad luck with stupid stuff? I took it that it was a given. I have to be one of the few people whose car starts worse after a fuel pump change.

 

[Screw-Rice]

Quirks are one thing, this is just....I don't know. Every time a stem blows, it has been pulling into a parking lot (or the time before this was onto base).

I think it is the complete crap roads we have down here, not once did I have this issue in Denver, but down here this is the third car to have this problem. Main difference is the others it happened once, the damn Lincoln seems to enjoy eating these things.

 

[NoLimit95]

I have never had bad luck with stupid stuff when it comes to any Mark I have owned lol.

 

[thaywood]

I had the same valve stem problem on the '97 LSC we just got back in March. Within two months, the driver's front and passenger rear valve stems started leaking. The first time, I got it off the road before the rim destroyed the tire. Had a new stem put in and no more problems from that one. The second time, my wife was driving and she had to drive it flat on the rim for a while before she could pull it off the road and it ruined the tire. That's when we got the new tires and new stems. And I always watch the guy install and balance my tires. That way I know I get new valve stems and a good balance. No problems since getting new tires.