Hello. I keep thinking about putting the spare wheel on the front of Pinky - but dont really want a cover. I'd prefer to have it with a shiny hub cap. I've seen a few vans that do that and wanted to see if it would cause damage / deterioration to the wheel with no cover? I will also look to get a photoshop done to see what it looks like before doing it as I do like the VW on the front and am not sure what would look best
There are two kinds of mounts. A shallow one and a deep one. To get hub-cap outside you need the deep one. I got a plain black cover for my (shallow) one. Looks ok.
This is mine. I had the shallow mount, but wanted to have the wheel facing the other way. Rather than buy a new mount I drilled and tapped some long bolts, so that they screw onto the existing studs on the shallow mount.
We used to have the wheel on the front without the cover - I think they look quite good. We had a van with nice EMPIs and a spare on the front with a cover, only the spare had flaking and residue.
we have a shallow(?) on ours,it normally has a cheap black plastic wheel cover/hubcap it use to have a spinning iron cross that looked & acted like a propeller, something like this..
I like the covers fitted to 4x4's with the colour coded centre piece. If you are going to fit it, I'd look at one of those. A nice shiny piece of chrome with a pink insert
As Birdy said Chrome and colour coded (although it may make it look a bit brazilian, not a bad thing!) Picture borrowed from http://www.brazilianvwbay.com
I wouldn't do it! Had one on the front of mine when I bought but when I took it off found someone had used it as a batteri8ng ram and it had caused the front panel to severely bend!! The mounting seemed quite strong but ........ Don't do it!!
