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How to Keep Hubcaps from Falling Off

Hubcaps should mount firmly onto your rims, with full contact all around the perimeter of the steel wheel. You should be able to remove them with your bare hands with great difficulty, or not at all. This is the case with over 99% of standard wheels. However, there is some minor variation in diameter between wheels made by different manufacturers. If your wheels are 'tight' you may have difficulty mounting hubcaps all... (posted by Philsoll 5 years 130 days ago.)

Install Auto Molding Yourself -- Eliminate Door Dings

Prevent most minor dings, paint-chips and body blemishes that can happen when someone parks next to you, opens their door and whacks your vehicle. Many vehicles had factory-installed decorative/protective side moldings strategically placed at "door-ding height" to help prevent this problem. But in the last few years, these moldings have been left off to save a few dollars in this very competitive... (posted by Philsoll 5 years 202 days ago.)

Hubcaps or Wheel covers, What’s in a name?

Cars and trucks built before about 1935 came on wire spoke wheels with small metal caps installed to seal the wheel hub on the axle. Those early "HUBcaps" were smaller than 3" in diameter, made of heavy gauge plated steel hammered onto the hub of the wheel. Their main function was to keep dirt out of the spindle nut and wheel bearings. In the mid ‘30s, hubcaps became more decorative than functional. The ‘dog... (posted by Philsoll 6 years 214 days ago.)