StuRox

StuRox

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Hi all, just wondering if I am being daft, but we have got one of the plastic spare wheel covers thinking this would replace the tatty vinyl cover on the back of my sons D1 300 TDI 1995, but can I heck make it fit....am I missing something......

It's just a standard disco alloy as the spare. Have tried to reverse it....but that didn't work.....help!
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You need 3 nuts to hold the wheel to the back door, then another 3 to hold that plastic cover on like lock nuts. You can’t use alloy wheel nuts with the shiny caps as the threads of the wheel carrier need to go all the way through the nuts

Also this cover may not work on all ally wheel
 
I tried that, but the threads on the wheel carrier aren't long enough to get to the plastic cover...very bizarre......
 
Yes, but also took them off to try, but that didn't work either, didn't give much more thread.

Guessing I need the original disco steel wheel for it to fit?
 
StuRox said:
Yes, but also took them off to try, but that didn't work either, didn't give much more thread.

Guessing I need the original disco steel wheel for it to fit?
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Yep for the steel wheel.
Have you tried turning the alloys round the other way?
 
Yeah, tried that too, but threads still aren't long enough and then the wheel really sticks off the wheel carrier....guess it's not meant to be with his wheels, which is a shame as the cover fits nicely on the inside of the alloy
 
StuRox said:
Yes, but also took them off to try, but that didn't work either, didn't give much more thread.

Guessing I need the original disco steel wheel for it to fit?
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Correct, those cover discs (ANR4751) were supplied when the D1 was equipped with a steel spare with a size 235 Goodyear tyre fitted.

Steel wheel mounting nut is ANR3116 plus a plastic washers.

I saw some D1s with a steel spare an a main dealer when I purchased my vehicle … fitted normally a bit strange when the other wheels were alloy

The nut for the alloy wheel spare wheel mounting is different from the road wheels.
All 1996MY D1s onwards had five alloy wheels fitted when they left the factory.

Locking wheel nut is also available and its not the one for the road wheel.
 
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StuRox said:
Thanks Discool, confirmed what we had started to think.

Guess he needs to look for one of these then.....
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Ok that will work, it looks like a D1 wheel which was part number NTC5193PM.

As you say the existing spare wheel is alloy so why not replace the vinyl cover? I understand it protects the tyre from sun damage.

I’m now on a third cover, original plus two replacements
 
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