Keep your hubcaps on

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse) 03/07/2015 at 09:00 • Filed to: Hubcaps

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Lots of people use cable ties to secure their hubcaps. Using then to secure your alloys is new to me.

Edit: it seems, sadly, that I may have been wronging him/her. Pity.

Further edit: if these are hubcaps they're being held on by the wheel nuts.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 09:07

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there are fake alloy wheels that are really steel wheels with a plastic cover. The steel is just cut to the same pattern as the plastic so you don't get this look. I don't know if that is the case here

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 03/07/2015 at 09:09

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Yeah Vauxhall/Opel have used these for a while.

McMike > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 09:16

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http://www.carpages.co.uk/vauxhall/vauxh…

Cé hé sin > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 03/07/2015 at 09:28

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I thought that too, but no. They really are alloys. They have exposed nuts and there's no sign of anything other than the brakes behind the wheels.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 09:44

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something something transformers decal.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 09:54

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Oh manufacturers are clever bastards

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/show…

Only way to tell is put your finger on the edge

XSeriesWalkingDead > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 10:08

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That is a destroyed alloy wheel. The tie strap is there to mitigate the loss of structural support caused by the break. Looks like a Transformer logo on the car so it should be safe.

Svend > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 12:07

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They are wheel trims as pointed out.

These are ones on a colleagues Vauxhall/Opel Zafira.

Alex Zapata > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 12:20

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It is kind of pointless, you would need to break them to get them out, the only way to take them off is to un bolt the wheel nuts, the covers themselves are secured by them.

It's a bit of a pain in the ass when you get a flat, though, trust me...

VincentMalamute-Kim > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 12:55

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Everyone is correct. I do my own wrenching and consider myself pretty mechanically informed. I've done brake jobs on my friends Pontiac Grand Am and always thought she had alloys. She knew they were styled steel wheels under perfectly form fitting plastic covers. I was shocked. The plastic covers aren't like hub caps, they stay on the steel wheel when you remove the wheel. I was completely fooled.

eem > Cé hé sin 03/07/2015 at 15:20

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valve stems generally don't have holes around them with alloys