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I'm going to be fitting my winter wheels soon and so need to tart them up a bit.
I'm painting the rims white.

Do I go for hub caps in matching brown with the VW picked out in white?

or

Do I cough up for a set of chrome hub caps?

Having owned a 1980s Italian motorcycle I'm more than a bit nervous about chrome, how robust is the chrome plating on the caps that are availble (I won't buy cheap shyte)?

Even the VW chrome ones aren't as good quality as they used to be, better than the Brazilian ones though which rust within a week. There are stainless steel ones out there now, I think Mega bug sell them in the UK. The original painted ones where silver paint the same as the wheels. Never been to keen on body painted hub caps myself, look a bit hippy.

bigherb wrote:Even the VW chrome ones aren't as good quality as they used to be, better than the Brazilian ones though which rust within a week..

That's exactly what I'm trying to avoid.

bigherb wrote:Never been to keen on body painted hub caps myself, look a bit hippy.

That's also my fear but I think there would be too much white if I painted them white to match the wheel.

Silver chrome paint with a clear lacquer over the top would look better.
For my winter wheels I just use full wheel trims from Halfords easier to keep clean.

You could go brazilian but why not go commando?
Patrick

I painted my rims white a couple of weeks ago and went for the chrome hubs - I'm quite pleased with the result, it's a damn sight better than the tatty wheel trims she was wearing previously.



Silky

Buy some plastic wheel trims and put you own VW badge in the middle like I did.

Mark

Silky wrote:I painted my rims white a couple of weeks ago and went for the chrome hubs - I'm quite pleased with the result, it's a damn sight better than the tatty wheel trims she was wearing previously.



Silky

Muchos Grassyarse for the photo.
Way too much chrome so it's the painted option for me.

pocolow wrote:Buy some plastic wheel trims and put you own VW badge in the middle like I did.

Mark

Nice idea, that way I can leave the wheels as they are in gunmetal/dark silver.

Silky,
Where did you get the chromes from please? just what i'm after myself.
Cheers

I've got a two sets of Rover P6 hubcaps.
One set I've had painted black

And the other set I've left chrome

Not much chance of getting Rover P6 hubcaps out here in the fatherland.

Titus A Duxass wrote:Not much chance of getting Rover P6 hubcaps out here in the fatherland.

If you want me to get a set and forward to you, no problem

BombHead wrote:

Titus A Duxass wrote:Not much chance of getting Rover P6 hubcaps out here in the fatherland.

If you want me to get a set and forward to you, no problem

Thanks for the offer.

I sprayed 2 of them white.


As I suspected, there's an awful lot of white.
I will pick out the VW in the centre of the cap and then try one on the bus.
I may be able to get away with a lot of white because there's a lot of brown on the bus.

That is a little too much white I reckon, even for your brown bus! Think it will make the wheels look very small on the bus too. How about doing the caps the same colour as the bus? That may work.