About a couple of months ago I took my wheels off to paint them black. But since then every few weeks im having to put air in one of my front tires. Did I sand to much or something?

 

I'm gonna guess you picked up a nail or suffered road damage.

 

Maybe your valve stem is going bad because the same thing happen to my corvette. One of the tires would loose about 10psi of air during the week, until one day I was wiggling the valve stem and notice there was a little hole in it.

 

yeah....most likely valve stem, easy fix

 

I thought nail to but I had dealership look at it and they said they can't find anything wrong with it. All they did was fill it up with air and said that should do it.

 

tires loosing air is a common thing, but if you think it's too much then change your valve stems

 

I just saw a thread on here recently stating that if the tire pressure monitoring crap inside the wheel goes broke you may loose pressure as it is connected to the valve stem... do a search.

Found it: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...e-sensors.html

 

The X has integrated TPMS sensor which is on the valve stem. You can't typically just change the stem.

The sensor is held on by a nut on the valve stem on the outside of the wheel. If I was a betting man I'd say the issue is that that nut has loosened a bit and is causing a leak. Try and tighten it down a bit and see if that helps. Be careful it's easy to jack them up and then you get to buy a new/rebuild your TPMS sensor.

 

Take it off the vehicle again and spray it down with some soapy water. If you see bubbles forming anywhere, there's your leak. Most likely it's a small nail/puncture or the valve stem.

 

just toss in a can of fix a flat... always fixes slow leaks for me for just 5 or 6$

 

Fix a flat is harmful to cast/ aluminum wheels. I would recommend only using fix a flat on steel wheels.

 

Good to know. A friend of mine gave me a can. Looks like i wont be using it anytime soon.

 

you have a bad tps its leaking

 

only 2 reason, nail or valve stem

 

DO NOT DO THIS!!!! We have TPMS on the stock rims, if you put fix a flat in you might mess up the sensor. I would not do this cause they are not cheap at all, get it checked out at discount tire or a similar place. The last thing you want is to spend more money than you need to.