before i read this i thought of bathtub silicone. its clear..can handle water. thanks guys

i used some bathtub caulking. i used a translucent tape to hold it in place for a few days just to be sure. took the tape off today..the cap looks to be held on quite firmly. the caulk dried clear so cant even tell. i imagine it will hold up under bumpy roads.

In my experience, as long as things were clean before you caulked the caps on they will be fine. The only problem is if you ever take off a cap for any reason you have to caulk it back on -- or Bye Bye Cap.

Albertj

ok good. yea i kinda figured once u take it off it needs to b e caulked again. since my tires were just rotated and theyre only like 6000 miles old to begin with..they shouldnt need to come of for like 6 months. by then hopefully i can get a new cap.

Recently the wife came home with one of the wheel centers missing from her car. That really kills the looks of any car especially one of these Rivs.

New tires were installed recently and before having that work done I removed the wheel centers and then reinstalled them after wards being as careful and gentle with them as possible. It seems that despite my best efforts some of the retaining clips were broken when I put them back on. (broken clips shown in photo)
Evidently these retaining clips become brittle with age and exposure to the elements and are eventually going to fail.

My recommendation is to go ahead and use some sort of adhesive or silicone to secure the wheel centers on your car before you loose one or more of them.

I have saw other posts where board members used silicone for this purpose and that will serve the purpose well. There was no silicone in my stash of stuff so I used the 3M weatherstrip adhesive shown in the pics and then used some masking tape to help hold some pressure until the adhesive cured. Look closely in the pic and you will see a little dab of the adhesive on the retain tabs. Use the silicone/adhesive sparingly. A little dab will do ya

Hope this helps prevent someone from losing a wheel center.

If you do lose one you can hopefully get a replacement from:
http://www.moradpartscompany.com/
they can also be bought on ebay.


Bert

Did you just glue the centercap on? How will you remove the lugnuts in the future??!!!???!!!

Bert,
Did you miraculously find the one that came off or did you buy another.?
If you had to buy another where did you get it and how much are they going for now.?

I got one from Morads and I also bought one off of ebay.
The guy from Morads said it would be $15.00 but he only charged me $5.00 on the invoice. The one on ebay was $17.00 shipped... I noticed the same fellow listed another one the next day for sale. If you need the link just let me know.

I waited a couple of days after the 3M weatherstrip adhesive cured and made sure I could get the centercap off. It came off no problem. Then I "glued" the others on. I have used the 3M weathertrip adhesive for repair on some other items before so I was pretty sure it would work for this job also. But if i had some silicone I would have used it...its cheaper.

Bert

Well, not sure if I lost it or if it was stolen, but I pulled the car out the garage today and noticed that the rear passenger side center cap was missing. I do recall driving along yesterday and hit a pretty rough spot in the road, but didn't hear anything or see anything in my rearview mirror. I went by that stretch of road today and walked it to see if thats where it came off, but no luck. Anyway, I called a few salvage yards around here and none of them had one. I called the dealership up here and it costs $140. , thats insane!!!!, a few years ago it was $80. I am currently looking online and have searched many online inventories but I am coming up empty. Any one see any for sale recently?

You might try Car-Part.com and see if there are any out there.
Good Luck