Those rubbish 90's after market wheel trims.

[Pillock]

Wheeltrims should cover as much of the wheel as possible. That's what they do.

Actually, the ones on the last of the Mk2 Focuseses at the stingy end of the range were good - plastic trim, and then a steel wheel that's cunningly got the same cutouts, so it looks like an alloy. See straight through. Clever.

 

I did like a lot of the Ford ones from the early 90s - those Sierra ones (GLSi?), as well as the Escort ones with the pairs of square holes all around, looked nicely similar to Scorpio alloys.

[Barry Cade]

Hate to say it, but the Vectra wheel trims are class-no one can tell!

 

This place is a lifesaver if like me, you hate a missing/odd/halfrods trimz..

 

http://www.wheeltrims.eu/

[overrun]

maybe they are going the same way as auto plas rear lovres and feu orange air freshners (the ones with the pin).

I had an Autoplas louvre on my old Volvo 360. Cool as a bag of room temperature ice.

As for the taxi air freshners, some hoarding scenster of a certain sticker and wheel loving 'car' forum has cornered the market.

 

Good luck to him I say. Once a year I buy a blue air freshener (I got the trees on my mirror so my car don't smell...)

For the other 11 months, I and those who travel with me, must suffice with the scent of spilled pez/derv/atf/whatever other sealed* container or clean* car part I have been or still are carting around at the time.

 

My old mk3 Astra 1700 TURBO INTERCOOLER ISUZU WEAPON* had a delicious odour.

I attribute this to the sometimes full, but always present, drum of cherry.

[PhilA]

Makes me wonder what would have happened back in the day to wheel trims if the wheels themselves had been different.

 

Mother in law's daily (2006) has these steels, which ultimately I think are almost too nice to hide:

*Note the almost-in-shot white sandaled feet for appropriateness

 

Hidden by a plastic trim that actually looks like an alloy.

Not quite to the heart of this thread, but it's an interesting "what-if", especially with the modern multi-spoke ones showing the ventilation holes in the wheel behind that don't match up with anything at all..

 

--Phil

[brickwall]

Simple tear-dropped shaped cut-outs around the edges suffices. The only weird ones I liked were the roundy hole ones on the Monty.

[fordperv]

Wheeltrims should cover as much of the wheel as possible. That's what they do.

Actually, the ones on the last of the Mk2 Focuseses at the stingy end of the range were good - plastic trim, and then a steel wheel that's cunningly got the same cutouts, so it looks like an alloy. See straight through. Clever.

 

I did like a lot of the Ford ones from the early 90s - those Sierra ones (GLSi?), as well as the Escort ones with the pairs of square holes all around, looked nicely similar to Scorpio alloys.

 

those wheel trims were available on the L model, these were the gls wheel trims

 

[overrun]

Three people have mentioned the modern Ford/Vaux 5 spoke steelie and trim combo, now.

 

Not one has realised that the person before them also said the same.

[overrun]

Mk1 Mondeo GLS trims were quite fetching, imo.

 

Nova SR items, too.

[phil_lihp]

I rather liked the ones which were actual hub caps - i.e. they only covered the hub & wheel nuts.

 

VW kept them going for a long time, hardly anyone still did them by the late nineties.  Particularly liked these:

 

 

The ones on my Nova, however, not so nice:

 

[stuboy]

one of my favourite oe wheel trims, saying that when you removed them the steels underneath didnt look bad either

 

   

sierra LX

[Wilko220]

Surely the shitest of shite hubcaps

 

[Lord Sterling]

I like the ones on my Rover 820E, though they do need to be repainted at some point:

 

[stuboy]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/uploads/cars/ford/1813141.jpg

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Radkappen-Darzierblenden-Barchen-Radkappen-VW-Polo-Opel-Corsa-13Zoll-Teddybar-/111172926282

 

[phil_lihp]

I'm trying to imagine the Datsun designers who came up with that car standing around a finished model in that colour with those wheeltrims and congratulating each other on a job well done.  Unless a spliff was involved, I can only imagine they were never allowed to see the finished product.

[fordperv]

sierra LX

 

yup and came on L trim level

[Junkman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/190723344321?ru=http%3A%2F%2Fdsa.ebay.co.uk%2Fsch%2Fi.html%3F_sacat%3D0%26_from%3DR40%26_nkw%3D190723344321

 

Will fit VW Beetles.

[Shep Shepherd]

The design of those Datsun hubcaps fascinated me when I was a pup, as did that of the wheeltrims fitted to early Sierras

[Partridge]

Whatever happened to those cheap BMW clone ones that were popular a wee while back? I actually quite liked them as they managed to look totally inappropriate on just about everything. 

I remember them. But you NEVER saw them on BMWs.

[Barry Cade]

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

These are pretty snazzy:

 

 

Three spoke, very '90s. Also there's a fake brake disc so people will think you've got disc brakes like some kind of fancy Jaguar! Don't ask where the caliper is though! If you look closely at the centre logo you'll see they're labelled PLASTIC WHEEL COVER ZT which is really sporty. Heck these are so cool I think you'll have to declare them to your insurance company because you'll make your car so desirable. 

[robinmasters]

Bare black steel wheels are the way to go. When I 'put the hammer down' I often get mistaken for a NASCAR.

[londonm]

I remember the early seventies, when Ford Escorts had wheel hubs with a little planet Earth globe thing in the centre that looked really sophisticated to my eye. But Halfords wheel trims are less of a crime than those twats who put 'eyelashes' on their headlamps. That's a real crime in my mind.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I saw those on a Cavalier a couple of days ago. Made me smile to see them on a non-cutesy car. 

[Wilko220]

These are pretty snazzy:

 

 

Three spoke, very '90s. Also there's a fake brake disc so people will think you've got disc brakes like some kind of fancy Jaguar! Don't ask where the caliper is though! If you look closely at the centre logo you'll see they're labelled PLASTIC WHEEL COVER ZT which is really sporty. Heck these are so cool I think you'll have to declare them to your insurance company because you'll make your car so desirable.

It also looks quite like the rear view of a lady's thong. These literally have everything.

[brickwall]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Radkappen-Darzierblenden-Barchen-Radkappen-VW-Polo-Opel-Corsa-13Zoll-Teddybar-/111172926282

 

 

Stop causing trouble you !  

[Partridge]

Is it me or do the spokes look like penises?

[brickwall]

Yup! They do...

[Spiny Norman]

I once bought a set of these cheapo trims but found they were such a bad fit that they rubbed against the tyres slightly during an sort of enthusiastic cornering, and sounded exactly like massive understeer so they went in the bin.

[Junkman]

Is it me or do the spokes look like penises?

 

You should seriously consider sessions with Sigmund Fraud.