Missing - Wheels Trims - I've Found The Answer - Well One That Works For Me!
By ellie333
@ellie333 (21016)
April 1, 2008 1:23pm CST
Hi There for years lots of my cars suffered from missing wheel trims. There were usually only three rather than four. How to solve this problem. When I bought my latest car it had no wheel trims and it looked messy so I invested in a brand new set but didn't want to lose any so what I done was use cable ties to tie them on. I used clear so they look unobtrusive. Excellent no more missing wheel trims. Do you have this problem? Have you ever done something like this to resolve the situation? Please share. Ellie :D
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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1 Apr 08
That's a great idea. But you will have to cut them if you need to change the wheel ever. When we lived in London people used to pinch the wheel trims. So I bought a load from Halfords, the cheapest that I could get. Put four on and and then if I lost one I just replaced it with another. Other people just drove without them at all. My current car has wheel trims over alloy wheels. Some people take them off to show off the alloy. I prefer my wheels on the car, so I leave the trims on.
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@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 08
That was what I used to do as well
I never liked the look of it without Wheel rims either and then when the Company got new Cars well they actually got some alloyed Wheels lol, my Car now has Alloyed
now to so no worries about loosing them
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
3 Apr 08
Sweetie I am not able to work anymore because of my Illness
The Company got rid of me after being there 8 years when I got Diagnosed with this
I got sicker because I was fighting them and then my Doctor said that I would not be able to work again, that was 5 years ago, but I would love to be able to go out to work again back into the Job that I loved but ..... well that's Life lol
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@recycledgoth (9894)
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2 Apr 08
I have always used cable ties on my wheel trims, after having two sets of them either lost or stolen in the past. This tip was given to me a few years ago by a policeman who recommended that cable ties are used, especially on an expensive set of trims
@anonymili (3138)
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1 Apr 08
LOL I was looking at my car today thinking the poor lil thing looked rather shabby without any wheel trims at all but I did the cable ties thing with the last set I had and it was a nightmare having to try to remove the wheel trims whenever I needed to put air in the tyres so I've been driving my car around with no wheel trims at all. It looks awful but at least no one's going to try to steal anything from the car at all hehe!
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@ellie333 (21016)
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1 Apr 08
I'm glad I am not the only one who does this. I must be real lucky because mine are positioned so that I can still get to the caps to put air in. In fact I did just that on Friday before I went away so perhaps this would work if you got another set. I haven't got a parcel shelf so picked up a dog guard from recycle centre so if I had to brake hard the stuff in the boot wouldn't be a dangerous load and thats cable tied in to LOL loads of uses, even used them to stop my little boy swivelling the swivel chair by tying underneath! Ellie :D
@marketing07 (6266)
• South Korea
1 Apr 08
sorry ellie i dont drive a car coz my husband doesnt want me to drive,,
He is joking Marketing notice the wink after the comment, he is upset over not being able to use smilies yet like we can LOL Ellie :D