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| Sep 7, 2014 02:32PM | BluEyz | |
| Sep 6, 2014 08:01AM | oldminimover49 | |
| Sep 6, 2014 03:52AM | CooperTune | |
| Sep 6, 2014 12:43AM | AWOODY | |
| Sep 5, 2014 03:42PM | ve9aa | |
| Sep 5, 2014 02:29PM | Cup Cake | Edited: Sep 5, 2014 06:50PM |
| Sep 5, 2014 01:18PM | malsal | |
| Sep 5, 2014 12:28PM | Dan Moffet | |
| Sep 5, 2014 12:04PM | BluEyz | |
| Sep 5, 2014 12:02PM | Dan Moffet | |
| Sep 5, 2014 11:59AM | minimans | |
| Sep 5, 2014 11:13AM | BluEyz |
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Sep 7, 2014
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Great ideas everyone. Thank you!
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If mini types in Ontario , New Brunswick and Florida use them, then they must work-
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It may just be me, but I like the look without. I think KAD or perhaps someone else makes a nice rear wheel bearing alloy center cap for the hub. Paint everything nice and go without. Even when I buy new 4.5 X10 minilifes I will not use my caps. I have a drawer at the shop with all center caps from wheels I have bought since 1970. I'll look but don't think I have any that large. Is that a 12 inch wheel? Steve (CTR)
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I made some centre caps from stainless steel cups or tumblers , get them from the hardware store or the bathroom shop or think a little left of centre, they were very good.
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I could not find some rather large ones for Alleycat wheels and ended up using spray paint can lids.
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Midland Wheels has a good selection of centre caps. Maybe your wheels are amoung this lot.
//www.midlandwheels.com/Shop/C-955-Centre-Caps.html
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I could not find some rather large ones for Alleycat wheels and ended up using spray paint can lids.
If in doubt, flat out. Colin Mc Rae MBE 1968-2007.
Give a car more power and it goes faster on the straights,
make a car lighter and it's faster everywhere. Colin Chapman.
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Okay.
There are/were several makers of wheels of that general style, each with differences, in particular the exact hole diameter and how it is shaped to hold a cap. There are/were makers of many styles of after-market caps, apparently of varying diameters and fastenings, most of them pricey.
Which is why my car doesn't have any either. Mine had plain black plastic caps with four lugs pointing inward, which broke off from age. One idea I haven't finished trying is getting some of those small stick-on convex mirrors for vehicle side mirrors and sticking them on lke mini baby-moon hubcaps. (I bought a pair which are languishing in my tool box.)
You need to post a sharper picture of the wheel, a close-up of the hole showing any grrooves etc that would hold a cap in. Measure the hole as accurately as you can - 2.5" may be a bit general. They may be 52 mm or other another size (2.5" = 63.5mm)
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There are no caps on any of the wheels.
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Presumably you mean road wheels. Best to provide, if you can, info on the make and style of the wheel as well.
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Need a tiny bit more info than that!! what wheels would be a good start and even better a picture of one of the remaining three...............
Mini's are like buses they come along in a bunch
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Can anyone tell me where to buy a 2.5" cap for a vintage Mini?
