Fitting Chrome Hub Caps

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Devon81
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Fitting Chrome Hub Caps

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Hi Just finished painting my moonraker, thought i would give it that retro 80's feel, so i purchased some polished stanless steel hub caps from Mega Bug.
They were a bit of a nightmare to get on,but after half an hour all 4 were sitting there gleaming away, went for a drive and the 2 rear hub caps decided to race me down the road :roll: .After retreaving them from a pub car park and someones garden i decieded not to put them back on straight away, has anyone got any tips for installing them, i have painted the wheels cream, could the paint be a problem with them not fitting correctly, it was quite difficult to get the edges over the lumps on the wheels that they fit over.
We go to cornwall in a weeks time and i dont really want to get down there to find i have no hub caps.

So has anyone got any tips with fitting them.

Many thanks Ian

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Re: Fitting Chrome Hub Caps

Post by big red bus »

could well be the paint on the lugs thast the cap fits over. Are they orig vw one's though or cheap chinese.

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