Loose centre caps - help!

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Loose centre caps - help!

Post by Ashok » Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:04 pm

So I put my summer wheels back on this week without incident. When it came to replace the centre caps two of them fit perfectly but now two of them look like this.. rattling and loose and looking like hell. What's the solution?

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Post by hap » Sat Apr 14, 2018 12:17 pm

It could be tab on the lock needs bending slightly also the metal section that sits in the hub may need bending to help sit flush
Keep rotating the cap in first instance if not done that as if going round the clock and hopefully it will find a snug fit
Other option is try with the ones that's sit flush and see how it mounts

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Post by Toasey » Sat Apr 14, 2018 1:11 pm

Maybe the tabs were correct for the wheel they were fitted to before winter. You could try rotating the centre caps around in the hope of matching them up again.
There are only 24 permutations to try!
Might be quicker to just bend two tabs.
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