Bongo Fury

Picked up a right scruffy pair of alloys today - basically just so the van isn't sitting on stands while I get my own wheels refurb'd. (I'd be charged extra to store the van vs just taking the wheels down - and I can scrap the spare wheels afterwards and get most of the cost back). But semi-considering having a winter set and a summer set of wheels - so might get both sets done...

The center caps on my own wheels are "okay" - but could do with a new set, esp. if I'm going to go to the bother of getting them colour matched. And the spare set of wheels would need new center caps too.


I don't really know where to start... my own are 151mm, center bore in wheel is just under 60mm. The others will be a mm or two smaller in diameter, bore still to check. I've tried ebay, aliexpress and general googling, but I'm not having an awful lot of luck - lots of Audi and BMW stuff.

Any hints or tips on how to find what I'm looking for?

Cheers,
Matt.

you may need to find the kind person/s that seems to nick the buggers when they come into the country.

Plenty on fleabay, various sizes.

If there the same size as steelies you can always use a drinks can

They're much larger - covering the wheels nuts as well - more like these, but have to be the right size...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/141104911550

I think it's a case of finding out what other vehicle uses the size I want as standard and replacing the center emblem but I'm stuggling.

Hi
Depending on what wheels you have, I carved a centre cap from hard balsa, sanded, sealed, waxed and moulded, and made fibreglass covers which fitted over the whole centre...
Cheers
Helen

helen&tony wrote:Hi
Depending on what wheels you have, I carved a centre cap from hard balsa, sanded, sealed, waxed and moulded, and made fibreglass covers which fitted over the whole centre...
Cheers
Helen

I hadn't discounted fabricating them...

I had the same problem Matt. I ended up using branston pickle lids sprayed up and with mazda stick on logos. That was about 6 years ago and they are still there, but starting to rust. I decided (in Scottish tradition) to keep my nuts exposed, so replaced with shiny new ones.

Hope you find what you are looking for

All the best

David.

maybe matt will be loosing his nuts in the near future, no3 here yet matt (any day now). good luck hope everyone is well.

If you do track down something suitable, you can get some stick on Mazda badges. I had a set of alloys with rubbish badges which I replaced with these which only cost about £4 from China.

I started to chuckle at the idea of beer cans but fell into fits of laughter at the news of branston pickle lids. Only in Bongoland folks - the home of cool

Still eating our way through the Branston six years on!

dunslair wrote:Still eating our way through the Branston six years on!

Love it