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• Chrome Wheels
  Historical mailing list - Nik Maravich
  Fri, 6 May 2011 01:35:10 -0400
  I have chrome Thing wheels on my 73 with Hubcaps and was wondering if anyone makes a chrome version of the vanagon steel wheel...
• let's keep Joel busy! :)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Jul 1994 09:49:28 +0800
  If Joel gets tired of tracking the colors of our vans, how about the type of hubcaps we all have?!? :) /Martha Rubin nrubin@s1...
• Steel EV Wheels FS
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:28:47 -0800
  If anybody want/needs a set of steel wheels with hubcaps let me know. Kyle -- Kyle Wade (408) 426-1431 OR (408) 429-9424...
• Re: Bug Hubcaps on a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 13 Aug 1999 12:38:45 EDT
  In a message dated 8/13/99 10:47:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, thefladge@YAHOO.COM writes: << Make sure to get Mexican made...
• Audi rims: The continuing saga
  Historical mailing list - Phil Menchions
  Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:56:53 -0500
  ...By coincidence I decided to stop at the local hoboes perpetual lost hubcap sale just up the road to see if I could find...
• Re: Silly question about hub caps
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:38:54 -0800
  To expand on what Dennis Haynes said, there are actually two versions of this hubcap and one will not fit on a Vanagon: 311...
• Re: UJ's Numbers again ...
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Jul 1994 10:25:25 +0800
  Joel! These numbers are great, but where's the IMPORTANT stuff we've been sending you, like color, hubcaps, names, huh? ;) /Martha Rubin nrubin...
• WTB four nice hubcaps
  Historical mailing list - Zoltan
  Mon, 8 May 2006 16:07:13 -0700
  For my 87 vanagon. I only want to take real nice ones. I can fix the old ones and paint them too, but it...
• Re: Hub cap questions. Pics.
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:38:44 -0800
  Those wheels don't have the nubs that the dog dish hubcaps seat on......... On Feb 5, 2008 2:03 PM, neil N <musomuso...
• Re: Rotten Head Studs (and names)
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:35:06 -0500
  > > > By the way, for reasons I don't understand entirely, the right front > hubcap on my '66 standard bus is named "Carl". > > -Dyer Lytle...
• Re: Wheel/hubcaps "look" options
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Tue, 27 Nov 2012 20:28:29 -0600
  Michael, my hubcaps are the small ones that some describe as "dog dishes." Someone told me that there are none of that type that...
• FS '88 westy with only 36k original miles
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:25:34 EST
  ...not diggin those chrome moon hubcaps tho _http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=896425_ (http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail...
• I Need 1 "Fake Mag Wheel" vanagon hubcap
  Historical mailing list - Chris Findley
  Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:14:42 EDT
  It is the one with the four fake black lug nuts and the VW logo on the center cap...If anyone has an extra...
• Re: Hubcaps?
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:31:25 -0400
  Most list vendors have all of these. I think the full moon type are about $65 each. I heard of someone repainting the old...
• Re: Mud Flaps, generic or otherwise? Sugestions
  Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
  Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:39:53 -0600
  On Oct 27, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have the first ones that Ron linked to(hubcaps). I like the...
• Re: Wheel/hubcaps "look" options
  Historical mailing list - Dave Mcneely
  Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:43:57 -0600
  ...Wheel/hubcaps "look" options > > Michael, my hubcaps are the small ones that some describe as "dog dishes." Someone told me that there are none...
• Free trailer hitch, steel wheels and hub caps - Raleigh, NC
  Historical mailing list - email99
  Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:30:15 -0500
  ...3 MXT, 1 MXL and 1 195/75R14 passenger car tire) along with four original Vanagon hubcaps. The wheels are in good shape (with...
• Re: What to do about hubcaps
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Mon, 11 Jul 1994 10:07:46 -0500 (CDT)
  And then there's Jerry Huff who waits until I do a compile and then hits the send key, right? <grin><sigh> Sorry about...
• Re: restoring scraped-up hubcaps
  Historical mailing list - Cliff Ober
  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:58:37 -0500
  Karl, You may find that a semi-gloss will stay looking good longer than the flat black... I also picked up some flat black...
• stuff for sale
  Historical mailing list - Patrick Bryson
  Sun, 1 Apr 2001 15:10:58 -0700
  ...white "spoke" hubcaps (4) I don't want to ship tires/wheels or exhaust so you kinda need to be in Phoenix or Phoenix...
• Re: anti theft for hubcaps?
  Historical mailing list - Tim Demarest
  Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:38:35 -0500
  <snip> good reason to buy some alloy wheels :<) make the theif work for his loot!! </snip> Actually, I had an '87 Fox with alloy...
• Stupid Vanagon Tricks-Dual Hubcaps!
  Historical mailing list - Jon Christensen
  Sat, 29 Jun 1996 16:18:40 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The big silver wheel covers fit right over the Bug-type caps, so now I'm running 'dual' hubcaps! I guess this might be...
• Re: What to do about hubcaps
  Historical mailing list - Ray Carlson
  Mon, 11 Jul 94 0:45:45 18000
  I Need to buy one, what do you want for 1 or all three? Let the bidding began! :) -- ******************************************************************* Ray Carlson rcarlson@freenet.fsu.edu...
• Re: let's keep Joel busy! :)
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 11 Jul 1994 15:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
  ...she needs a big black bra!! 8-) Hubcaps....plain ol'grey plastic EV caps... Its got a radar detector.... Oh, yeah one of those...
• Re: hubcaps (wheel covers)
  Historical mailing list - Chet Douglas
  Thu, 22 May 1997 09:05:27 -0700
  I will soon have 3 grey/black 5 spoke look alike wheel covers for 14 inch rims if anyone needs them. I am on...
• Clean my Dusty Caps
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:41:44 -0800
  What can I use to get the brake dust off my plastic hubcaps on my 91GL? I've tried brake cleaner, carb cleaner, orange...
• Re: Mud Flaps, generic or otherwise? Sugestions
  Historical mailing list - Justin M. Mayrand
  Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:31:35 -0400
  ...16 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I have the chrome round ones(hubcaps) on mine and I like em. They > are easy > to find as...
• 14" wheels and tires in Olympia
  Historical mailing list - Gregory Smith
  Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:54:38 -0700
  Recently upgraded to the stock alloys, and have a full set with spare to sell, with good hubcaps and good Yokohama Load range C...
• How to remove HUb cap (inner)? - Springloaded?
  Historical mailing list - Jens Jakob Andersen
  Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:03:43 +0200
  Hi How do I remove the hubcapon the driverside (the one protecting the hub nut on the steering knukle /spindle) IT feels like it...
• Re: looking for replacement hubcap
  Historical mailing list - David Vickery
  Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:27:49 -0800
  ...looking for replacement hubcap > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Date: Saturday, January 22, 2011, 4:58 PM > I lost one....I dont think they...
• Chrome hub caps won't fit on ONE wheel?!
  Historical mailing list - Rusty Zarse
  Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:57:50 -0700
  ...The center cap of the spindle sticks out just a little too far to allow the hubcap to fit. I've defintely seen vanagons...
• RE Re: Friday how-to clean spilled FISH sauce in the van
  Historical mailing list - pensioner
  Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:15:33 -0800
  ...A quarter pound of raw shrimp in each hubcap can work wonders for attracting Stan's ever=present catz AND get you noticed bigtime...
• Re: Need a hubcap, what's the going price?
  Historical mailing list - Michael Rule
  Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:53:23 -0800
  ...95). > > > > > > >--- Gnarlodious wrote: > > > >>The tire shop neglected to put on a hubcap properly and it escaped. >>How much >>would I pay for a replacement...
• Re: buyer beware
  Historical mailing list
  Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:44:02 EST
  ...those are generic hubcaps. are hubcaps shady? i think the problem is the seller isnt stating that its a conversion from a passenger van...
• Re: Tires.. Again
  Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
  Sat, 20 Jun 2015 18:45:33 -0400
  > My weekender has the original 14" steel rims and the chrome VW hubcaps. But tires > seem impossible to find. Hankook RA08, hands down... http...
• Re: '84 Hub cap problem
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:06:12 -0400
  At 11:38 PM 7/7/2010 Wednesday, Rob wrote: >Like Jim Morgan suggested I'll have to use the 'fixed' the hubcap >until...
• OEM vanagon disc wheelcovers for sale
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:36:13 EST
  i have a complete set of 4 vanagon disc style silver plastic wheelcovers/hubcaps for sale $75 for all FOUR. this is the 85...
• Re: serious vanagon security issues
  Historical mailing list - Robert Cardo
  Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:07:43 -0500
  <<Well it sure wasn't my fault the Wire Hubcaps on my Cadillac got stolen several times a year but it sure made my...
• Re: hubcaps
  Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
  Sat, 19 Sep 1998 11:45:00 -0500
  While traveling in far western PA last fall, I was enticed off I-70 by a sign advertising "100,000 Hubcaps, Next Exit." It...
• Re: WTB: hubcap for ' 88 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 30 Oct 1998 14:57:27 EST
  I sell them brand new for $50 each. They come with a lifetime warranty against defects (no that doesn't include your wife scrubbing...
• Re: Fwd: Re: Slowly Disappearing Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Sat, 8 Feb 2003 18:57:06 +1300
  >>I remember a few years back, when three list members had had their hubcaps >>stolen in the same month the suggestion to engrave your...
• Re: Correct hub caps
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Wed, 1 Jun 2005 07:50:50 -0700
  ...alloy wheels just about the time >>they switched from the chrome hubcaps to the ugly as hell "aero" style >>wheel cover. The kick was...
• Re: I love junkyards
  Historical mailing list - Chris Turner
  Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:37:32 -0400
  ...with a scary front impact (steering collumn vertical, drivers floor crumpled) Two hubcaps, power steering resivoir and hoses, >> power steering on a '84??????????????????? chris
• Re: Hubcovers wanted: ME TOO
  Historical mailing list - James Cohen
  Tue, 9 Sep 1997 11:01:35 -0400
  ...Let me know if someone knows where I can get 'em. >I'm in need of another one of those silver "spoked" plastic hubcaps...
• Vanagon sighting - March issue of Wired
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 18 Apr 2001 13:37:37 -0700
  ...What model year is it? '84-'85? No hubcaps, sliding door dented/scraped. Alistair *prof. computer science, UC Santa Barbara
• Re: moon caps, and who knows?
  Historical mailing list - B Feddish
  Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:29:20 -0500
  ...http://members.cybertrails.com/~ahwahnee/Hubcaps.JPG Sadly I heard a strange sound as I was backing out of the garage a couple of...
• Re: F/S:Passat 15X6 steel wheels and hubcaps
  Historical mailing list - Ken Hunter
  Wed, 17 May 2000 18:44:22 EDT
  The offset on the Passat wheels is ET45 and the wheelcovers are OEM VW with the emblem for those that have asked. They are...
• Re: Vanagon tire ?
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 18 Jul 94 09:14:08 PDT
  ...I'm still looking for a used but not abused, >original side tent for a Westfalia and an original hubcap. Oh no not the...
• Re: Correct hub caps
  Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
  Tue, 31 May 2005 15:25:26 -0700
  ...83 had the big plastic hubcaps. Can't remember >if this was an upgrade option or not? > >Tom > > > > Interesting! The file "1980 - 1991" (which...
• Bargains !
  Historical mailing list - Frank Condelli
  Sun, 13 Aug 2000 08:32:57 EDT
  ...Rear door snap in screen, like new, $20. (3) Vanagon hubcaps, $10 each. Bentley shop manual, $30. Skylite screen/curtin, grey, $10. Tom, 817...
• Re: Clicking in Wheels - Ideas of why?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 8 Feb 95 19:45:39 EST
  Dumb question - have you run your van without hubcaps-? That would be my first choice; then the brake system; then the bearings---DC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- David...
• 88 West Speedo cable problem after brake job
  Historical mailing list - John Graham
  Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:56:50 -0400
  ...I took the van back and the mechanic took the left front hubcap off (with the attached flex cable) to show me what he...
• Looking for stock plastic hub cap for 87 GL tin top
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Fri, 10 Sep 2021 14:27:28 -0700
  Does anyone have a stock 1987 Vanagon GL hubcap FS? (aka “flying saucer” style) I just need one and it doesn’t need to...
• Vanagon hub caps
  Historical mailing list - Ron & Marianne
  Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:16:58 -0400
  ...Contact him at http://www.kijiji.ca/v-tires-rims/city-of-toronto/vw-westfalia-vanagon-oem-hubcaps-set-of-4/603307180?enableSearchNavigationFlag=true...
• looking for replacement hubcap
  Historical mailing list - brett rueff
  Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:58:50 +0000
  I lost one....I dont think they were original and cant see any on the usual vendor websites. Might the PO aftermarket special. If...
• painted wheels
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 26 Aug 1994 10:46:41 +0800
  ...Don't use any hubcaps OR chrome beauty-rings - it makes for FAR less rattling! /Martha Rubin nrubin@s1.csuhayward.edu '79 bug 'vert...
• Re: VW Australia v Busdepot
  Historical mailing list - Ray Hunnam
  Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:31:51 +1000
  ...That's $AU320.00 ($US206.00) for a set of painted hubcaps that VW have been pressing out since the 70's. Then I...
• Mud Flaps, generic or otherwise? Sugestions
  Historical mailing list - T Collins
  Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:42:37 -0400
  ...Oh and while I am at it how about some hubcaps to fit the same? Thanks, Tony C. -- 82 Scirocco "Rodolfo" 85 Vanagon "El...
• Alloys for sale
  Historical mailing list - Sorin Bejenaru
  Thu, 21 Aug 1997 13:22:52 -0400
  ...They co= me with the special lugs and nuts and the small center hubcaps. The price i= s $650 plus UPS shipping. The wheels...
• Re: Golf hubcaps on Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:15:59 EDT
  ...can see in the photo it has fairly late-model Golf hubcaps. They are full wheel covers with a slotted edge. (the link to...