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@Freebeard you told me to discard the cracked hubcaps. Why do you recommend this?
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I hate hubcaps?
My friends have a Prius that lost one hubcap. It turns out Prii have black powder-coated Y-spoke mag wheels under the fake 5-spoke plastic hubcaps. The car would look much better with the other three removed. They won't do it because it wouldn't look show-room fresh, but they won't spend the money for a fourth fake 5-spoke plastic hubcap.
Are we talking about 'wide-body' arches? It doesn't show in the picture but the car in my avatar had fender extensions (before I cut the front half of the front fender off and lost 5mph of top speed) to clear F60-15 tires. I went to a sheet metal shop and ordered a circular sector (a curved strip) 3" wide with a radius 1.5 times the wheel/tire diameter.
Bent into a circular conic section for installation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_section