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Hi folks - have to admit you now have me interested as I am a plastics and materials man. Yep looking at the caps they are definitely injection moulded and also with excessive venting (note the 4 round impressions on the picture). The tool probably injects plastic at two or more points on the rim to make the part). The fact you have a thick section means it's going to be pretty robust. However looking at the shape of it you could make it out of polypropylene too I would think although for the van age --ABS would probably been the material of choice. I would be surprised if they used glass filled with a section like that. In terms of tools I think you lot are getting a bit carried away. On a small machine a single cavity steel tool could make thousands of parts a year so I am perplexed as to why such a tool could make so few. You need to find a company with small machines or better still a pilot facility that had the resources to do this on the scale required. Boys machines are ideal for a project like this( boys are a manufacturer). Mass mould would be a good company to talk to as they specialise in making caps. It would be useful to have a cap to kick a discussion off with someone.

VW classic parts shows the 251601151C 16" centers for 29,69 EUR on their site.

It's no wonder VW UK don't have any of these left, what with everyone's garages stuffed full of them

At 29 euros each from classic vw, I think I will make do with some alternative ones.

Steve

Think this would be an ideal part to 3D print.

Is there any chance that the CAD drawing could be sent to me, I know some peeps with 3D printers and I'll see if anyone will print one out for me in ABS to try out for fit.