Patent ID: 7562939

Claim:
A motor vehicle wheel, comprising: a structural circular body made of steel that is axially fixable to an axle of a vehicle and has an inner side arrangeable in use so as to face the vehicle axle and an opposite outer side that is visible when the wheel is mounted to the vehicle axle, said body being composed of an outer rim on which a tire is mountable, of a hub and of at least one connecting element for connecting said rim to said hub; bolts having respective stems and fixing heads for fixing said structural body to an axle of the motor vehicle; a wheel cover made of metallic light alloy that has an inner face and an opposite outer face and is removably fixable at the inner face over said structural body for covering said visible outer side of the structural body, said wheel cover comprising bosses that protrude axially from the inner face of the wheel cover, said bosses comprising each dead holes axially extending therein; mechanical interconnection elements for removably connecting said wheel cover to said structural body and which are made so as to be fixable into and removable from said dead holes of the wheel cover only by action from the inner side of the structural body; receptacles provided in said wheel cover for insertion of said bolts, said receptacles being each constituted by a tubular portion that has a bottom hole that opens onto said inner face of the wheel cover, said bottom hole having a diameter that is smaller than a maximum diameter of the fixing head of a said bolt; wherein said mechanical interconnection elements are provided separate from the bolts for fixing the wheel to the axle of the motor vehicle, said bosses being provided at locations on said wheel cover that are radially offset with respect to said receptacles, and wherein said wheel cover comprises: a central portion which is suitable to be superimposed on said hub, said central portion having a central opening arrangeable at a central abutment of an axle of the vehicle; and a plug for closing said central opening, said plug having a cylindrical portion for insertion in said central opening, said cylindrical portion ending with a circumferential protrusion which is suitable to engage, by elastic deformation, a corresponding circumferential recess formed on an inner wall of said central opening, and said plug having further a plate-shaped protrusion, which protrudes laterally with respect to said cylindrical portion and is suitable to hide from sight said receptacles.