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Originally Posted by johnnymac
Do you have a link or know of a link to show info about echo fender skirts, and flat wheel covers. Any help is appreciated. My Echo wheelcovers look like they dont handg on tight, and I am thinking about full disk wheel covers. Will they fit over my tire valve stems?
Thanks
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As moonmonkey says, a search will probably turn up something.
I made Echo skirts of coroplast, and just used small screws to screw them to to the plastic tire surround piece. About 6-8 screws will do the trick. Be sure to put a cheap screwdrive into your glove box for emergencies. If I had to do it again, I think I'd use something other than coroplast. It takes a lot of careful back-triming to make them lie flat.
To size/fit the skirts, first make a thin cardboard template to get the size and shape correct. You want an overlap of the plastic surround of about 1/2 inches. That will allow the skirt edge to lie in the small recess right at the edge of the surround. Then you can make the size/shape of the final skirt using the template. I don't think I posted pictures of the skirts, but may have.
You can make cheap wheel covers using pizza pans from Wal-Mart. I just pop rivited the pans to the center area of the stock plastic covers using 6 rivets in a circle. Carefully mark and drill 1/2 holes for the valve stems and buy the little 1 inch valve stem extensions to poke the stem through the hole.
No longer have the Echo, so can't post any pictures. Good luck
