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Old 04-19-2008, 04:47 PM
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Rear wheel hub caps

How do you get the rear wheel hub caps off. The gold color ones that are stopping me from fitting on my g35 coupe wheels and its frustrating... Input welcome.

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Old 04-19-2008, 06:50 PM
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Hammer time! I smacked the crap out of mine to make them fit on my wifes 98. that was 3 years ago. No problems since.
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or just take a pry bar to it
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Old 04-19-2008, 07:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Graem
How do you get the rear wheel hub caps off. The gold color ones that are stopping me from fitting on my g35 coupe wheels
Those aren't hub caps. They're dust covers.

You can remove them, but it wouldn't be the best of ideas. As JNCoRacer said, best to clearance them just enough to fit your rims.
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i meant dust caps, do should i just do like mc hammer and hammer time to get them to fit or should i take use the pry bar method. I tried geting them off and its not gonna be an easy task.
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if you take that gold dome off you should know that you will be exposing your wheel bearings to outside dirt and debris.
those covers are there to protect them (you can even see the bearings once you take the cap off) and if you remove it, your wheel bearing will fail probably within a year or less.

i would NOT remove them completely.

as pmohr said, try to either bend them or modify them to get the g wheels to sit.
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