Fitting hubcaps?

Discussion in 'Mech Tech' started by JamesLey, Apr 2, 2019.

  1. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    And all this time we just thought...… Fallen hub caps, of course....
     
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  2. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Ok, so I had mine powder coated and it was just thick enough to make getting hubcaps on stupendously difficult....I dented each one in the end. Look at sanding down the three lugs on each wheel.

    You'll probably need screwdrivers to get them off, unless you want hands from the metal hook thing that look like when you carried car batteries home in a typical supermarket carrier bag.
     
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  3. This^^^^^ if you look at most wheels with wheel caps the lugs are normally rubbed of paint :thumbsup: Also swhy they have the two holes fa pulling off against the puller and the tyre not the cap , works too .
     
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  4. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    You're supposed to use a jack handle (or something like) in the hook to pull the hubcap off.
     
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  5. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    Well it stayed on going 55mph down the Poole bypass this morning so hopefully isn't going anywhere!
     
  6. Moons

    Moons Supporter

    Its tight roundabouts that flex the wheel, not straight lines!
     
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  7. Moons

    Moons Supporter

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  8. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    I did a few of them too! Not at a great speed mind.
     
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  9. Did you see @davidoft waiting at the roundabouts :D
     
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  10. davidoft

    davidoft Sponsor

    I’m in the little red and white tent, full of fresh stock
     
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  11. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    All you have to do is put some silicone on the lugs and the caps will never come off
     
  12. Pudelwagen

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  13. Watch the cameras on Wessex Way. They’re all active.
     
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  14. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    I've been avoiding the wessex way like the plague as the traffic-works are awful! I'm only in Branksome so either drive through Poole, or take the Dorset Way around to get to the port.
     
  15. Buy a rubber dingy and come in through Poole harbour :)

    The amount of traffic in Poole and Bournemouth is bloody awful. Used to be bad enough when I lived in Parkstone years ago. Now it’s just crazy.
     
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  16. JamesLey

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    Hence why I bike as much as I can (genuinely quicker most days). Van days I leave at 7 to avoid the traffic.
     
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  17. Our hub caps started falling off after tyre changes recently... swapped left for right and stay on again now...

    ... was also stopped by a lovely lady in Waitrose car park on Anglsey at the weekend and given a bag of hubcaps! Random....... So at least we have spares now.

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  18. Waitrose do hubcaps? Are they organic?
     
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  19. JamesLey

    JamesLey Sponsor

    Think the Duchy Original hubcaps they stock are grown on Hayling Island? Some fella called Dave I think.
     
  20. He can be seen at various supermarket car parks doing a video on how to remove quickly too ;)
     
    Last edited: Apr 4, 2019
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