Beetle Hubcap Clips?

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Beetle Hubcap Clips?

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Any advice on the purchasing and installation of hubcap clips for standard Beetle rims? What are the best quality clips and where can one buy it? Thanks!
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Pine wrote: Thu Apr 20, 2017 4:18 pm Any advice on the purchasing and installation of hubcap clips for standard Beetle rims? What are the best quality clips and where can one buy it? Thanks!
You can get them from volkspares ( comes with rivets), they have no name brand and German ones, I have used both and they both work OK

Best is to grind the old one out from the back, with small grinder, making a recess, and then have a bolt with dimple drilled in it clamped in the vice.

Place the rivet head in the dimple, place clip over it then the wheel, and with a ball nose hammer peen over the rivet rod till the clip is tight, if need (normally not) make flush at back with grinder. Paint.

http://www.volkspares.co.za/shop/item/h ... per-5_1024

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Re: Beetle Hubcap Clips?

Post by calooker »

I got, R110 for a pack of 5 rivets & clips.
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