Customs hubcap creep

Best way to prevent hubcap creep?

 

Repaint your wheels. Amazing how a new coat of fresh paint helps keep caps in place. Or a dab of silicone where they contact the wheel.

 

You weren't talking about those Creeps who go around stealing hubcaps were you?

 

That's a new terminology to me,,I've never heard of hub cap creep,what is it exactly? HRP

 

I remember a slight hubcap moving or rotating years ago. But like mentioned a fresh paint job seemed to hold mine in place. And the dab of silicone does help but wasn't traditional.
Best way to prevent hubcap creeps is tie your Pit Bull dog to the bumper.

 

The old repo cross bars used to "creep" and could give the valve stem a hard time. Tried 100mph tape on the inside of the rim which helped by giving them some grip. Even put very small screws through the rim so the side of the head just put pressure on the cap. Got tired of hunting in the bushes on the side of the road for errant caps.

 

It isn't the hubcaps creeping, it's the wheels flexing.

 

Here goes a ****storm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hub Caps cover the center section of the wheel (The Hub)
Wheel Covers on the other hand cover the entire wheel. These are what will creep around and bend the valve stem or just plain fly off.

It's Wheel Covers NOT hub caps

BB

 

BobK is right!

 

I always wondered what that was called, I have it. I was going to try and bend the tads out a little but the dab of silicone sounds like a good and easy fix.

 

Yep Ok Bob K you are correct in descriptions . But you have done enough miles to perhaps have a wise solution.

 

My precious.

Btw there's a big discussion here http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/hubcap.775197/

 

...................You are correct, Bob. That's a misnomer that seems to be used a lot and I'm not sure how it all got started. Good point and as far as the silicone suggestion I made above, I was thinking of hubcaps but it might work on wheelcovers as well. On wheelcovers, like someone mentioned, tweaking the tabs will help or re-painting the wheels will usually help.

 

Don't run wheel covers, use hub caps......

 

I asked this on another thread, don't think it got a response: How about epoxying a couple of rare earth magnets inside the wheel cover to hold them in place without bending the tangs and chewing up the paint even more than usual?

 

Instead of using rubber valve stems, use metal ones.

 

..........................It might work, but.....I don't like the idea of attaching more stuff to the wheel than absolutely necessary risking throwing off balance. The tangs of a wheel cover are going to goober up the paint, especially if you take them off and on a bunch. That's what they are designed to do, bite so they stay on and don't creep.

 

Bend the tabs out some. Also, I ran a piece of Gorilla tape around the inside of the rim where the tabs seat. That worked pretty good! I was running china repop 4-bars. Nice looking, but didn't mount for ****.

 

I agree with BobK....now if we can just concrete the fact that wheels are the whole metal thing and the rim is the outer edge.

As for creep, I'd go with a dab of silicone also.

 

Or, the thingy your tire is stuck on! As for the "creep", slow down?

 

All I know is that wheelcovers do not stay on chrome rims! I did that a few years ago on an old Impala, with in the 1st half-mile... zing... zing.. they p***ed me on both sides of the car.

 

I really think that "Hubcap Creeps" would be a great name for a club whose member's cars primarily run steel wheels and hubcaps. Whata ya' think?

 

10-4 on that,,,NASCAR banned chrome wheels years ago because wheel weights would not stay on at speed, even if glued .