Installing Aftermarket Wheel Covers/Hubcaps So They Don't Pop Off

It does work very well...

It worked! I have been driving my car for the last week and what you showed us how to do works! I am so thrilled! Thanks so much!

Thank you

Wheel covers come with two options for fitting the ring onto the cover - the lower position makes for a tighter fit. The tape trick is unnecessary.

I only have one on fam

Plan 2 use zip ties.

I found a much more effective way to keep wheel covers from EVER flying off. Use 2 black, or white zip ties, depending on the covers main color. I tried this tape way and lost an expensive cover last week! You put on the cover, and through an opening on the cover, there is always an opening, mine is a VERY open design, and is black and deep blue,so black ties dont show at all! I had to get from the UK! Cant get it in the US.


Fish a zip tie through the cover, through one of the many holes in the wheel, and pull it through the cover, tie it off and cut off the extra part of the tie. It looks like a thin line of black, or white, you never see it and unless someone is staring at your wheels, they never see it. Zip ties are very thin. You put on 2, on opposite sides of the cover, and it will never fly off! You can put on just 1, but it could snap off from excessive heat or damage. The chances of both being damaged in very small. And you just replace them every so often, so you have fresh ties holding the covers on. Hey...try it!! Zip ties are very cheap and it works!!

This is stupid

thanks my guy

I wish I had seen this last week. I bought a set, put them on and 30 hours later I lost one😡😡

Next time I'm going with screw ons

i thought the metal ring went outside of the tabs? that way the ring actually makes contact with the wheel,i think your doing it wrong

No explanation, what a shit video!

To keep your hub caps from coming off the rim, clean the wire ring and the plastic clip area that the ring locks into and apply a thin line of adhesive to each, like Gorilla Glue, (let it dry completely) before putting back onto the rim, I did this to my hub caps and they have not come off. Hope this helps.

Love your way of presentation Brother , good on yaaaa .... Cheers mate :)

Mine doesn’t have an indent. Most frustrating thing ever

Oof , once he said “poor soul riding around with 3 of them” lmfaooo me 😂

Absolute legend

I bought a set of Pilot caps for my Toyota and the damn retentions rings don’t have the bend for the valve stem. WTH

I wouldn’t recommend to spray anything on the wheel because behind will be your brakes and it’s not ideal to have black spray paint on the disk’s and pads

I heard these affect performance

I wish for other people you would have concentrated on what tape is actually doing and where to put it and why

Do they come of easily when u need to change a flat ?

Here is my confusion. One video turned the retention ring valve stem relief “Up”. You turned the relief “Down”. Who’s right or does it make a difference?

Genius!!! Thanks

Can I just buy any 16" hubcap for my car OR it has to be Make and Model Specific??

Omg, thank you. My hubcaps fly off all the dang time, it's so embarrassing. I'm pretty sure the hubcaps I've seen in the gutters around town are all mine. 😅 I'm going to do this trick ASAP!

I never knew about the electrical tape. My dad custom painted my hubcaps to match my car and I only have what’s left on my car and my husband has a knack for losing them. I will get right on this. Thank you.

So does it matter where u put the tape? And if you add more tape around 4 seperate parts of the ring does it add even more reinforcement?

How does this do anything? I can see if you put the taped part in the part where it sits in the clip but u didn't do that? The clips are what hold it into the rim right? So how does this effect the tightness? I'm confused

So what does the tape do?

I still don't understand where you had the placement of the tape on the ring. And what it is actually doing.

Can I use a regular duck tape?

Thanks! Can't wait to try the tape trick. My wheel covers are 13" for my 96 Civic and are getting harder to find. I have to buy them online and the average nice set is $70 so I definitely don't want any of those suckers popping off. :)

If you need tape please buy better hubcaps. Also clean rim before painting. ✌️

I'm like that right now

I really like those hubs can you tell me who makes them I want to order that style

Mine have a gap any tips?

I don't understand what the tape does.

Why did U position the notch in the metal ring DOWN versus UP? Seems that UP would make way for the valve stem to be accessed for adding air to the tire. DOWN seems to encumber the valve stem.

Also, perhaps pushing the ring down further-past that 1st notch- would make a tighter fit (versus tape); since it causes the tabs to flange out further, hence making a more “snug” contact with the the groove in the wheel rim. …just a thought! ;-)

I subscribed to your freakin' channel... lol

Just one piece of tape is enough?

Do you still have these high quality hubcaps?

Importantly, before pushing the wheelcover onto the wheel, clean the rim area where the cover's mounts are going to slip on (or clean the entire rim face.
Dirt and grim will act like a lubricant and let the wheelcover slip off; it stays on with friction, and a clean surface grips better than a dirty one.

A bastard stole mine

Having never put new plastic wheel covers on before, I learned the hard way that it is necessary to use a large flathead screwdriver to slightly bend the plastic tabs opposite the side that is pushed in. I did not do that and tried to put them on as shown in the vid, breaking off 2 of the plastic tabs on 2 of the wheel covers. While waiting for the glue to dry on those, gonna try to put the other ones on tomorrow.

If it doesn't work out, then I will look for some metal dog dish hubcaps [as distinguished from wheel covers]. Those I know will work on my E350 van.

Thank you because I wouldn’t have never ever ever done this😅😂😂

a nice shot of flat black on the brake rotors too lmao