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Old 09-14-2019, 04:15 AM
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Washed the car & was drying the wheels with a blower & one of the wheel center caps popped off!
Not the entire cap with clips, just the thin cat's head 3D emblem! Has sticky adhesive around the edges.

I used Loctite gel control super glue & glued it back. Hope it holds.
I See various types on eBay, some look like cheap stickers & others look OEM but, probably are not.

If it falls off again will probably be lost.
Looks like this:


 
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Old 09-14-2019, 04:44 AM
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OEM center caps are around $30 bucks and available in a variety of original colors................
https://www.sngbarratt.com/us/#!/Eng...#resultsAnchor
 
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/Silver-Cent...S/312739593890

Chinese 1:1 exact clones @ $30 for all four.
 
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Tire shop broke one of my center caps (like the one Steve pictured). Given that they are all now 23 year old plastic, been through this before with other plastic center caps and the other three could let go over the next pothole, I was thinking to buy a $50 set of the repops, install one immediately and have three spares at the ready. King Charles' link is now dead. Looking at the pictures on Ebay, most vendors are pretty obviously not quite the same, maybe its a slightly smaller growler face or offset slightly different or something but just would not do as "spares" to the originals. I saw one set that appeared to look right, but the angle of the single photo made it hard to tell for sure. Wondering if more recently anyone has ordered an ebay set that was satisfactory.
 
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Old 03-15-2023, 04:51 AM
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I had to re-repair that wheel center cap 4-2022. I use a blower to dry my wheels after washing & blow drying, the Jaguar image started to come off the metal plate. Rather than wait till it literally fell off & was lost, I removed & fixed it.

I used JB Weld.
I scraped out the old adhesive from the back of the Jag head plate and then pulled off the backing plate, from the wheel, in order to scrape adhesive off the backing plate.
Had 4 clips & as I’m holding to scrape, I break off 1 & then a 2nd clip!
I easily glued the Jag head piece to the backing plate & set it face down so clips pointing up. Then I painstakingly applied JBW & hoped the 2 clips remained attached long enough for JBW to cure & they are close enough to the correct position (straight up) so it will hold. It held!
After > 24 hrs. for JBW to cure, I applied clear silicone grease & installed. Fit tightly & looks great!
Still holding today.









 

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Old 03-15-2023, 09:53 AM
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I suspect 23 years of hitting bumps, potholes and irregular road surfaces would make
me want to give up and cut loose as well. It is certainly a good thing it showed itself
while stationary and not driving.
 
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Amazon have various designs set for 15$
 
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I am sure Amazon might have some good ones, but be careful.
Some designs, while pretty, will not last past the first car wash.
 
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JB Weld is what I used on F35063, worked like a champ. But eBay has some in color . . .
 
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Originally Posted by Jhartz
JB Weld is what I used on F35063, worked like a champ. But eBay has some in color . . .
Yeah, I was missing one of the tabs completely and another was broken off. But for now I molded a new retainer out of some Lord Fusor 127EZ that I had left over from a Corvette project. It's primarily an adhesive, but I had tried it before on something else and discovered that when just squirted into a mold, it cures to an ever so slightly pliable consistency (not rock hard like JB Weld) which was perfect for the center cap to "snap" in and out just like its supposed to. Its holding for now. I'd still like to have "spares" tho and haven't yet decided which vendor to gamble on but I guess there's no urgency.
 
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These things are $50 each from Jaguar, so a fix like this is a rather cheaper, love it! The red centre version go pink from UV bleaching, I'm buying new ones regularly!
 
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