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Could you list the year, make, and model of your vehicle along with rim size? From experience I know cheap plastic aftermarket hubcaps don’t stay on well. Perhaps factory replacements will work better.
My 2007 Toyota Matrix was constantly losing hubcaps. In fact, the Matrix is well known for this. I bought four cheap plastic hubcaps on Amazon that look just as good and they've stayed on for well over six years now with no problems.
Do they have to match on opposite sides? If you need to buy a replacement, get two. F/R need to match, but your neighbors would never notice that L/R don't match.
i cant believe in 2019 theres still cars with steel wheels.
im not talking about older cars.
I mean they still make new cars with steel wheels.
Why wouldn’t they? If you wanna keep costs down on a entry level base model...cheap stamped steel wheels are the way to keep costs down.
In fact for durability or off road steel wheels are better as they can be pounded back into shape enough to get you back to asphalt when they bend off road
Lots of hubcaps these days get put on then the lug-nuts get tightened and hold the wheel and hubcap
I thought most "wheel covers" these days were bolt on? The ones on my mother's Grand Marquis are like that, they go on before the lug nuts.
Anyways, back in the 70s and 80s it seemed like the majority of cars on the road had at least one missing hubcap. Even trucks had them back then. I think I still have one out in my shed that fell off of my uncles '77 GMC.
The only thing about going without wheel covers is that the center of the wheel, where various hardware is, typically is somewhat unsightly. All that stuff's covered even without the wheel cover, so it's not a technical issue. I had one car that kept shedding wheel covers. I eventually went without, never found anything decent looking to cover the center parts, and then the car got old enough and the paint faded and I stopped caring.
In the vast majority of cases steel wheels are actually a technically superior product. Although the aluminum alloy is less dense, it's also less strong so in most cases for a cast aluminum wheel to be sufficiently strong to endure shocks, it ends up actually weighing more than the equivalent stamped steel wheel (spun high strength wheels like Centerline are the exception; I'm talking about the ordinary styled cast Al wheels typically supplied as OE equipment). Plus, the steel wheel's failure mode if it hits a pothole or curb too hard is to bend, which is unfortunate, but it's a heck a lot better than the failure mode of the cast Al wheel which is to break. I have personally straightened out more than one small dent in the rim of a steel wheel by whacking it with a big hammer, which you can't do with an Al cast wheel. Again, high quality very expensive racing wheels of Al are not what I'm talking about.
I doubt it. In fact I would argue that hubcaps could make rust/corrosion worse since moisture might get trapped behind the hubcaps and the hubcaps could prevent stuff from drying out as easily.
In reality it probably doesn't make much difference either way though.
I'll go with you, since I don't WANT to buy more hubcaps!
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