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Old 02-09-2012, 03:01 PM
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I put my stock blue/white center caps into my new TSW Interlagos wheels and they have a little bit of play in them. They are supposed to be interchangealbe but the stock just don't quite seem big enough. Is there anything I can do to fix this...other than buying new?
I plan on pulling them out over the weekend and manually spreading the plastic tabs a little in hopes that a simple fix will work, but otherwise I don't have any ideas.
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Originally Posted by C300Sport
I put my stock blue/white center caps into my new TSW Interlagos wheels and they have a little bit of play in them. They are supposed to be interchangealbe but the stock just don't quite seem big enough. Is there anything I can do to fix this...other than buying new?
I plan on pulling them out over the weekend and manually spreading the plastic tabs a little in hopes that a simple fix will work, but otherwise I don't have any ideas.
Since the caps are made by the thousands, it's not the caps but the wheels. You can't bend the tabs on the caps without breaking them but you might experiment with perhaps some thin tape on the cap where it snaps over the wheel edge inside. They won't fall out even though they seem a bit loose.
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A little silicon sealer may help.
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+1^ - the problem is the wheels.
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Originally Posted by Glyn M Ruck
+1^ - the problem is the wheels.
Yep, looks like the hole may be 1 or 2 mm too large. Like RLE said, the caps are not in danger of falling out as the notch on the tabs is plenty big enough to keep them safely in...just not snug.
I think I will put a tiny little dab of silicon on the outside of each tab to keep them from wiggling around.
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Ended up putting a tiny 2mm x 6mm strip of Dynamat on one tab per cap and it tightened things up perfectly.

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