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Hey everyone,

Just looking to purchase some new centre caps for my mags, I have a black set already but am looking to buy another set to try a few other looks with such as carbon fibre and metallic silver looks.

Besides a mag wheel shop is there anywhere online any one knows of or anyone else that sells centre caps? not many on ebay either..

The centre hole which they clip into is 55mm

And the outer face hole is ~64mm and 5mm deep



Cheers,
Luke.

The manufacturer brand of your wheels? maybe Used Tyre Mart? auto wreckers like U-Pullit (just nick them into your pocket without buying the whole wheel). If you can find one that fits you can always put a Mazda sticker on them like I did for my 13\"s on the old 121 I had.

Found a nice set of bronzy-gold 5-Zigen caps on good 'ol eBay.
They went on my Advan wheels, and as long as the outside diameter of the caps's clips match the inside dia of the hole, it should be right.

If you want to experiment and you have a few skills go to Target and pick up a \"magnetic spice jar set\". Take you gauge with you to make sure they fit. I got them on special for $15. You can then cut them to size (depth) and leave a lock tag on them to go into the 55mm section. You should be able to get some adhesive backed carbon fibre vinyl, leave them stainless or paint them as I did.

I've been looking for my wheel manufacturer but cant really find them anymore, some German company...

I had considered the wreckers etc but just thought it would be night to find some cheap new ones to play with from an online shop.

hmm Hadnt thought that far about making makeshift ones.. I'll keep that in mind if all else fails.

and what are these ones you've mentioned 1red5? are they flat looking, i'd considered turning some out on the lathe, bling bling... and sinking a dish in the front then resining in some real carbon fibre.. hmm alot of work though...

In W.A. we have a huge wharehouse that trades in mostly 2nd hand wheels. Is there somewhere like that you can take 1 wheel and go try some center caps?

Not really that i know of.. theres heaps of wheel places.. but which to go to I dont know.. might just have to make a few random call in's...

otherwise lathe work here i come!

but i'd prefer to buy some..

Try the tyre retailers. Most will have a stash of wheel centres hidden away somewhere. I managed to get one for one of my wheels from a tyre retailer after trying unsuccessfully to get one from the wheel importer.

garry i left work before seeing your post but how uncanny!

Thats exactly what happened yesterday, i just stopped in to a tyre place and I went around sampling ones from the wheels on display and then the guy disappeared out the back with my original cap and after 5min sent me out there to this huge stash of boxes and boxes of caps and spacer rings and fitment rings etc and said go your hardest.. whatever i found i could have..

so naturally i went all out
...and took a whole swag of them.. a few full sets plus random ones..

Although in typical fashion the set that i liked most i could only find 3, but i've got heaps to work with.

Thanks for the suggestions guys!

Lucky_Luke wrote:
and what are these ones you've mentioned 1red5? are they flat looking,

Nope, they stick out about 1.5cm

G,dayLuke. I bought some fence pole centres from Stratco for my Triumph a few years ago. They actuallyu looked OK

Cheers John