Talk:Hubcap

message: "This guy freaks out when the judges tell him his invention sucks, in the end he needs to be escorted out by the security"
http://www.makemelol.com/media/271/Crazy_Guy_Reinvents_the_Wheel/ I'm curious, is there really already this kind of thing to add to bicycles, to help keep automobile drivers aware of the presence of a bike? (I am presuming that is the reason he was talking about saving lives, etc.) 199.214.27.209 18:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  hubcaps for bicycles? 

message: This article seems to confuse hubcap and wheel trim which are compleely seperate things. A hubcap only covers the centre of the wheel and is a functional peice designed o keep the wheel where as a wheel trim is what coverse the wheel for decorative purposes. this article is therefore completely wrong and needs a re-right and a new article on wheel trims. (Morcus (talk) 01:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is incorrect

message: There needs to be an article about the Steel wheel, to complement this. Currently, it's a redirect to something about cards, which isn't exactly useful. "Styled steel wheels" (as this article puts it) are only  covered from one PoV in the Rostyle wheel article. That article needs to be made generic.--Rfsmit (talk) 21:33, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steel wheels 

message: On the painted steel wheels that were standard on most American cars starting in the 1930's or 1940's, a hub cap covered only the hub (the center) of the wheel, including the lug nuts. A wheel cover covered the entire wheel except for about an inch of the outermost rim. 
Since at least the 1960's, cars that came from the factory with wheel covers have had black wheels under those covers, regardless of the color of the car. I can think of two posssible reasons for this:
* It is cheaper to paint all the wheels the same color than to paint them to match the cars.
* A black rim blends in with the black tire and is invisible until you get very close to the car. If the bare rim is a bright color, then it will be plainly visible between the tire and the wheel cover.
For example: the first photo in the article 1960 Ford is a 1960 Ford Sunliner convertible. It has a white body, a red interior, and red wheels with wheel covers and wide-white-wall tires. The bare red wheel-rims are clearly visible between the chrome wheel covers and the wide-white-walls of the tires. (The white-walls on these tires are so wide that white wheels would actually be less visible than either black wheels or the red wheels that are in the photo.) 
In the 1980's or 1990's, carmakers began using plastic wheel covers on some cars. These too have black wheels under them, regardless of the color of the car. Once again, I can think of two posssible reasons:
* Whatever the decade, it is cheaper to paint all the wheels the same color than to paint them to match the cars.
* Many of the plastic wheel covers have slots or other openings in them. Black wheels are less visible through the slots than any other color would be.
All of this is based on my personal observations, not on any published source that I can cite. That's why I am putting it here instead of in the article.Ftfrk61 (talk) 18:28, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Hub Cap versus Wheel Cover

message: Something I forgot to write in my first entry: a plastic wheel cover covers the entire wheel, including the outermost rim. None of the wheel is visible unless the plastic wheel cover has slots or other openings, as described above.Ftfrk61 (talk) 14:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Hub Cap versus Wheel Cover (continued)

message: In the accessible part of my car brochure collection, I have 2 brochures that use "wheelcovers" (one word) and 15 brochures that use "wheel covers" (two words). I also have 3 brochures, all for Oldsmobiles, that use "wheel discs". Those 3 brochures are the only ones I've ever seen that use "wheel discs".FFPC161260 (talk) 12:03, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wheelcovers (one word) versus Wheel Covers (two words)

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