Smooth Wheel Covers - Success

[kingsway]

Originally Posted by JPD

Hi, I like this mod and want to try to do it myself. I have plastic hub caps on my car and they have four plastic 'nut covers' which screw over the top of the wheel nuts.
Could anyone advise me please, should I cut out the center of the plastic hubcaps or would this destroy the strength? The center plastic covers screw onto the wheel and keep in firmly attached but if I cover with cloth and resin I would lose this function. Any advice gratefully received.

Why not keep these in reserve in case you want to put the car back to 'standard'?

I'm sure you could find some cheap 'universal' after-market caps - perhaps with smaller holes needing to be filled? I recently found a set of 13'' caps locally going for a sale price of only UK £4.00 !!

[Vekke]

Originally Posted by JPD

Hi, I like this mod and want to try to do it myself. I have plastic hub caps on my car and they have four plastic 'nut covers' which screw over the top of the wheel nuts.
Could anyone advise me please, should I cut out the center of the plastic hubcaps or would this destroy the strength? The center plastic covers screw onto the wheel and keep in firmly attached but if I cover with cloth and resin I would lose this function. Any advice gratefully received.

If you have hand skills and want to use those hubcaps. I would buy shiny black ABS sheet and cut 5 fitting pieces to each hole and glue them on to level from the back side. You can also bend that ABS by heating to get perfect fit.