Those prices are per center cap or per set?

 

I ended up going with the green growlers from Welsh industries. They fit nice and tight with my Coventry wheels. I'll post a picture later.

 

Sorry to hear of your troubles, did the ones you purchased have the newer style growler with jaguar written on it like these :


4 X Black Jaguar FOR X XF XJ 58mm Wheel Center Caps HUB Cover Emblem Bedge | eBay


I bought a set of those as well, and found the same problems you had experienced, they were a little loose and were able to be spun around in the wheel.


The original ones in my first post I found are a pretty good fit, they snap in nice and tight and don't move. If you look at them side by side you can see the quality difference. I have a suspicion they are made in the same factory as the genuine part as they have similar markings on the back. I was so impressed by them I got a second set as spare!

 

I picked the ones with the "R" emblem. The look of the quality is just fine.

So maybe some tape wrapped around the retainer tabs would fix it. Shrink wrap might be better though.

The originals use the end of tab distance to hold them tight so this would still be a kluge.

 

I bought some off eBay and they didn't fit

 

Stick with the center caps sold by Welsh Enterprises. $19 for a set of four and they fit nice and snug....

 

In my case I wanted to try a different style center cap.
If I end up with a solution for these I'll report back but today I'm cleaning the car up a bit for a visit to the body show later on.

My neighbor forgot to set the handbrake and his car, it rolled out of the driveway in a big arc and hit mine in the LR fender area!

It's always something ...

 

Here's what seems to fix these slightly wrong sized centers.

The problem is that the tabs extend too far and so they aren't snug.

The overall diameter is not an issue with the ones I got.

So I took a piece of heat shrink tubing about 1/2" ID and of the thicker grade variety (you may have to double up the thinner stuff). I then cut a length of it about 5/16" long and slipped one of those over each tab so that it began to run up the retainer portion of the tab but not completely over it. Use the heat gun to gently shrink them a bit, wet before insertion () and there you go!

Fits just right now.

 

So here's one on the car.

They're OK but the R emblems don't match. I could update the ones on the car's body but eh?

 

Here's the Welsh brand ones. Fit is perfect.

 

Then you bought the wrong car.......ie way out of budget......look when I first got my first "exotic" a Lotus.......I was told to count on spending 3500-5000 a year on maintenance.....look at the finances and it was do-able.......I love finding stuff cheaper than I expected but I never complained about the price of parts!!!! You wanted a JAG then you will have to pay Jag prices, just the way it is..


on the center caps I get the cheap chinese ones once they arrive a pry the cheap center cap out and use superglue to reattach....so far so good