Reply To: 11BL Hubcaps

My experience is that they appear to have been swaged originally but subsequent replacements have usually just been left loose

Interesting Bernie, explains why mine are snug, but not swaged, however after 65+ years there can’t be many original ones around now?

A tip when refitting so they don’t get ‘lost’ (I had one loose itself in a field the week I got the car!) – fit the rubber trim that is available for the ‘Top Hat’ to wheel rim joint (J36c on Club Parts list?) and put a rubber washer or heavy section ‘O’ ring on the bolt inside the chrome cap which stops the centre cap being pulled in and distort it when the bolt is tightened (and the bolt dropping out when trying to assemble both parts to the wheel).

Both rubbers help reduce the road vibration which causes the bolts to spin loose……

I don’t want to tempt fate but after 6 years……