Spare wheel cover thread!!

[fishlander]

I just wondered what pictures you all had on your covers and why??

 

[JC600]

None lol

 

[Dougden]

Last year, mine went into RCV (Paddock Wood, Kent) for a service without a spare wheel cover and when I collected it there was one of theirs on the back! Free advertising I suppose?

Have thought about getting a round sticker to cover the RCV decal with our own business info but personally I prefer the wheel without a cover, especially with a nice alloy on show.

 

[sijwhite]

My cover is in my garage. Like Dougden I prefer the look of the wheel on its own.

 

[matt1295]

i like the look of the alloy wheel not some crappy cover

 

[Zejmjien]

anyone to sell me their's?

 

[Big Uli]

Last year, mine went into RCV (Paddock Wood, Kent) for a service without a spare wheel cover and when I collected it there was one of theirs on the back! Free advertising I suppose?

Have thought about getting a round sticker to cover the RCV decal with our own business info but personally I prefer the wheel without a cover, especially with a nice alloy on show.

I agree
A nice alloy looks best

 

[fishlander]

I havn't got a nice alloy as a spare!!

 

[Zejmjien]

but doesn't leaving the tyre exposed to sunlight etc reduce its lifetime?

 

[tdfive]

but doesn't leaving the tyre exposed to sunlight etc reduce its lifetime?

It will only age as quick as the other 4 on the car mate, dont worry.

 

[hd3]

i've a few created designs ready for 'print' ..
but
1 .. it's not a priority .. have other more practical things for my hippo expenditure
2 .. i can't decide which design i like the best
3 .. someone will probably nick it
4 .. the last driver in whom i accidently induced road-rage .. will probably remember the cover design and not my reg. plate
5 .. i like the cover 'as-is'
6 .. i haven't found another cover made of the type of material i want ( current cover not be suitable for printing on )
7 .. when it comes to stone walls and various foliage .. the spare's cover is .. on occasion .. my rear parking sensor

if i were advertising a business .. then it be a different matter altogether ..

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btw: here's a place that does hand-painted ones
http://wheelyyours.co.uk/index.html
not too keen on the chosen designs me'self .. but each to their own

 

[roshe25]

My son bought me this one it is stainless steel round the edge and looks nice when it is clean, I have not found a picture I like to put on it.

 

[Zejmjien]

the reason i like them is that they hide the alloy since its the easiest wheel to get nicked...no jacking needed just a locknut

 

[myths63]

but doesn't leaving the tyre exposed to sunlight etc reduce its lifetime?

In the UK we do not have sunlight:tea:

 

[Zejmjien]

In the UK we do not have sunlight:tea:

Chuckie & LMFAO - I'm In MALTA Bitch (Laidback Luke Mix) - YouTube you can skip to 1:45 :violent:

 

[Nodge68]

I havn't got a nice alloy as a spare!!

I've thought about getting a cover as a theft deterrent. Some towrag has tried to nick my triple sport alloy, twice luckily they've only scratched around the bolt holes.

 

[Irishrover]

:behindsofa:
I have thought about removing mine and exposing the alloy. It's a pain to stretch it over the wheel and I would hate to have to do it when it's pi**ing rain down-which is usually the time that a puncture happens !! Despite turning it so the "Land Rover" logo is at the top, it always manages to rotate itself within a few minutes of driving to the same, out of position location.

 

[nickcc]

Handy having had a cover on when you come to sell the spare as unlikely you will have ever used it, as Synchrones are no longer manufactured there is a good market on eBay for unused spare tyres as long they don't suffer from the usual side wall cracking.

 

[teddywood1]

Handy having had a cover on when you come to sell the spare as unlikely you will have ever used it, as Synchrones are no longer manufactured there is a good market on eBay for unused spare tyres as long they don't suffer from the usual side wall cracking.

glad you told me that I have 2 17ins ones I also have a wheel cover with a print on it but the last one someone tried to nick it so this time I had a full one done where it covers the wheel then I put my chrome out cover on . jobs a good un

 

[jedi]

I like the no cover look too............My cover just hides a really dirty corroded alloy anyway