18" Spider Centre Caps

[work-shy-wanabe]

I tried a search but couldn’t find anything.

Where can I get some TVR center caps to fit 18" Spiders?

There over £20 each wherever I’ve looked and seem to go for up to £70 a set on eBay. I reckon that’s well over the top for plastic center caps. The same ones are about £3 for other makes.

Anyone seen them anywhere else for a more realistic price?

[Tangoed]

They've got them here, www.clever-trevor.net Do a search for 'wheel centres' cheaper than ebay.

[killerscum01]

Is it on a Cerb? Are you changing from 16" OZ's to spiders becuase you can machine 2mm off the diameter of the originals and remove the metal ring and they will fit.

Done this last week myself.

Cheers

[work-shy-wanabe]

Tangoed said:

They've got them here, www.clever-trevor.net Do a search for 'wheel centres' cheaper than ebay.

That price is per centre cap, so that close to £90 for a set!!!!

Edited by work-shy-wanabe on Thursday 26th April 12:24

[work-shy-wanabe]

killerscum01 said:

Is it on a Cerb? Are you changing from 16" OZ's to spiders becuase you can machine 2mm off the diameter of the originals and remove the metal ring and they will fit.

Done this last week myself.

Cheers

No my car has some 19" aftermarket wheels on at the moment.

Looks like I may have to phone around, they really shouldn’t be so expensive.

[work-shy-wanabe]

Here we go,

www.tvrcarparts.com/pages/partdetail.asp?id=83

wheels already have this bit

www.tvrcarparts.com/pages/partdetail.asp?id=509

Dont llok the same as these two though:

www.clever-trevor.net/part/211/raceproved-wheel-centre-and-badge-part-no-g0135.html

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl

Dont know what to do now ..........

[RUSSELLM]

This thread is good timing.

I've had my 16" wheels, four years & no body's ever touched them.

I've had the 18" spiders three days, and my two front centres have gone.

At least I can be happy in the thought, that a couple of seventeen year olds are probably tossing off over them as I type.

At least I've lightened up somebody's week for them

[RUSSELLM]

work-shy-wanabe said:

I tried a search but couldn’t find anything.

Where can I get some TVR center caps to fit 18" Spiders?

There over £20 each wherever I’ve looked and seem to go for up to £70 a set on eBay. I reckon that’s well over the top for plastic center caps. The same ones are about £3 for other makes.

Anyone seen them anywhere else for a more realistic price?

Are you after the plastic push in centre caps, the stickers to go on them or both ?

[W7 KAA]

If it's just the stickers, I bought some from Racing Green last year. I'm sure they would post some out.

[chimi500]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl

i got these off ebay a few months ago, they are good quality imo.

[Tangoed]

I must admit they do look the dog dangles

[RUSSELLM]

work-shy-wanabe said:

www.tvrcarparts.com/pages/partdetail.asp?id=509

I ordered these on Friday & they arrived today.

Excellent service.

Apparently, they've got no stickers in stock, but I bought four of them from "Power" last year (accidentally)

[RUSSELLM]

I've noticed the new ones don't spin around like the old ones.

I'm guessing the spinning around is a prelude to them falling out.

Do the centre need to ever come out ?

I'm presuming the wheel nuts hold the wheels on, what's the nut behind the caps doing ?

[VARLEYHYD]

RUSSELLM said:

I've noticed the new ones don't spin around like the old ones.

I'm guessing the spinning around is a prelude to them falling out.

Do the centre need to ever come out ?

I'm presuming the wheel nuts hold the wheels on, what's the nut behind the caps doing ?

Hold them in with a bit of gaffer tape to stop them spinning works.
After one heavy track day they usually fall out soon as the plastic becomes brittle, so new ones are always OK for a while.
The big nut in the middle holds hub to the axle if that makes sense

Edited by VARLEYHYD on Monday 30th April 16:28