WhenIpurchased my car it had a new set of hubcaps included and they are the same diameter as the originals but using normal hand pressure I am unable to fit them over the wheel sprigs - any other members experienced this problem and if so how did you overcome it without recourse to a BIG hammer?
I have a Triumph 2.5PI, and I lost a hub-cap[1] which ended on the roadway and was run over by several other cars by the time I had stopped and walked back to rescue it. It was too buckled to be put back on. I found online a set of what looked like identical hub caps from a TR being broken for spares. When I received them, the outside was exactly the right size and appearance. When I tried to fit one on the PI wheels, the inside ring was just a fraction too small for the wheel sprigs. There is only one way the hub cap can go on because there is only one hole for the air valve, so I knew exactly where on the inside ring the sprigs had to go and with gentle taps with a smallish hammer in those places I got the inner ring distorted enough to force it on with my foot rather than my hand.
Having done that, I made the same adjustments to the other three hub caps before finally fitting one on the wheel and leaving it there. So if I lose another now, I have a readily available spare I can replace it with.
[1] I had a puncture and the deflating tyre flipped off the hub cap. Normally they stay on!Jim
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