Busta Rhymes and his WHEEL TRIM CRIMES

[Cavcraft]

A (probably hopeless) thread dedicated to wheel trim crimes

[Cavcraft]

And wheels

[goosey]

No pic unfortunately but it always used to get my goat when people stuck plastic wheel trims on Suzuki Samurais Sjs and Jimnys in an attempt to make the 15” steel rims look better, also the oddball factory trims on Tata Safaris and Gurkas with the Free wheel hub poking through on the fronts 

[Six-cylinder]

This was done to me by person or persons unproven!

[bezzabsa]

reminds me of the old car sales sites where every car had halfords cheapest naffest trims slung on them..even models that should have had alloys

[goosey]

the worst

[Bren]

These were on my lads astra. The edges were so sharp gloves were required to remove them. They are now landfill.

[Six-cylinder]

I did this to myself!

In my defence a couple of the factory stainless wheel trims had run away and I wanted to tidy the car. The Vitesse was my daily and was doing 3,000 miles a month, but the original ones were always coming off. I had the embarrassment of loosing one outside some roadside cottages and as I approached to gather it up the householder opened the door to see a small gouge in his wooden front door!

At the time I managed a Motor Parts shop so I paid peanuts for the B&G trims, if that helps.

[UltraWomble]

1 hour ago, Bren said:

These were on my lads astra. The edges were so sharp gloves were required to remove them. They are now landfill.

Popular Voxholl after market option

[Six-cylinder]

Is this a crime!

My Seicento is just a basic run out Active and I removed the steel wheels and plastic hub caps to fake it up with Sporting alloys. Thing is, does adding scorpion badges to the centre caps make it a crime!

[Lord Sterling]

Aftermarket wheel trims, or incorrect wheel trims on a car makes my absolute teeth itch. It really does.

I cannot help but try and source correct items if I can.

I remember two specific designs being turned into aftermarket Halfords specials:

The Vectra C wheel trim:

And the BMW E30 wheel trim:

Of course, both without their respective logos in the middle.

Some years ago, some young neighbours of mine had a 2011 Fiesta. It mainly had a mish mash of poundland wheel trims or was on steelies. I found a set of neat Focus B trims and whacked them on for them. Unfortunately they 'lost' the whole set less than a week later and the Fiesta went back to its sad looking self:

Excuse the photo of a photo on a laptop.

Have a pic of a Vectra B on sad cheapy trims ☹️

[Asimo]

That BMW 'trim above was displayed at the V&A last time I was there, I forget the theme of the display. 

I had a set of these on my E28 which looked so much better than the stainless hub-caps it originally had.

It, and other wheeltrims remain in the collection. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O114256/car-wheel-trim-bmw/

[Datsuncog]

These horrors were fitted to my Mk2 Fiesta at the time I bought it:

Just no.

I binned them off and fitted some cheapo ones from Halfords that probably looked not very much better.

[Tenmil Socket]

When you see it…

 

[vtec-e]

Most of the above examples are cringe worthy, but I cant stop laughing at the Nissan above ☺️

[catsinthewelder]

I'm not sure if you could fit that Nissan trim properly on that wheel as it looks like those are the actual wheel bolts, the valve is under a nut but the cut out is between 2 nuts.

I remember somebody stealing all the wheeltrims from my dads mk1 Primera when he left it in the station carpark back in the 90s.

[bunglebus]

The worst for me were the red trims fitted to the Polo Boulevard, red wheels on a red car is highly illegal

Thankfully that blurry image is all that seems to remain on the internet 

[Spiny Norman]

Can't remember the last car I had with wheeltrims, probably this although it only had two when I bought it (one on each side, for balance) and I skipped them round the back of a petrol station on the way home. Steelies usually look better IMHO, especially after a quick coat of Hammerite. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 21/07/2025 at 23:08, Six-cylinder said:

Is this a crime!

My Seicento is just a basic run out Active and I removed the steel wheels and plastic hub caps to fake it up with Sporting alloys. Thing is, does adding scorpion badges to the centre caps make it a crime!

 

Dunno if that's a crime but this is, shirley?
Pair of Seicento wheels from the scrappy on a Freedom caravan (4 x 98 Fiat PCD hubs).
When we got them they were really shedding the silver finish and I got the rest off fairly easily with a pressure washer - underneath they seem to be some sort of resin rather than true alloy?

They've taken a PlastiKote blow over well - about five years now with no peeling (changed the colour a few times - may go to white next)

 

 

[Split_Pin]

I bought my Vectra in 2008 with these:

(Not my 75 by the way, this was in 2008, the one in the picture belonged to my arsehole neighbours partner and he had abandoned it there, eventually lifted by the DVLA in 2011)

I quickly binned them in favour of the correct LS trims

Before fitting CDX alloys a few months later, which it wore until it was scrapped in 2013.

I'd well have another Vectra B now!

[Supernaut]

These were on my Megane when I bought it.

There were only three of them.

This was their fate after I got it home.

 

It's just rocking black steelies now, in full shitbox mode.

[mk2_craig]

Just been up the local auctions.  Hey, how nice is this Orion?

Arrrgh

 

[bunglebus]

Let's not forget there was a time when you could buy spinner hub caps to emulate that year's fad

Edit found some of the really awful ones with the small spinner that sticks out in the middle

[ProgRocker]

My parents' Astra California that they owned in the late 1990s. It was a damaged repaired car that had a different set of universal wheel trims. He replaced those with these abominations...

 

 

[Soundwave]

15 hours ago, bunglebus said:

 

Thankfully that blurry image is all that seems to remain on the internet 

Behold, slightly higher definition. And still awful.

I think it was the "Fox" edition that had the red trims, rather than the Boulevard







The blue ones on the "Twist" edition aren't much better...

[MantaGTE85]

I've always loved the 'WOB' number plates on those press Volkswagens.

[mk2_craig]

55 minutes ago, mk2_craig said:

Just been up the local auctions.  Hey, how nice is this Orion?

Arrrgh

 

I’ve just realised there’s a set of correct original trimz for that in my parents’ garage. 

[bunglebus]

[cort16]

Not even clipped properly

https://www.gumtree.com/p/renault/renault-laguna-rt-2lt-petrol-estate-1996-manual-1948-cc-5-doors-vgc-82000ml/1501234665

[Noel Tidybeard]

it gets worse on a black car