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Old 01-22-23 | 03:20 PM
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I recently replaced the chrome wheels on my 98 with some machine finished reconditioned wheels. This left me without matching hubcaps. I tried painting my chrome finish caps but it was a fail. Then I tried finding some machine finish caps on ebay, which wasn't much better. 90% were trashed and the other 10% were overpriced. I decided to give a set of Aliexpress caps a try, since they were dirt cheap. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001350783883.html
I wasn't expecting much, but first impressions were good as they matched the wheels very well. Second impression wasn't great because I couldn't get them in the wheel; the fit was too tight. Then I removed the metal tension ring from the caps and after that they snapped right in. Fit was good without that ring. They look good and haven't fallen off. I'm probably going to pick up a second set just in case.




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That looks pretty good! About the best fit you could expect from aftermarket, I'd think!

Did you have to transfer your emblems over?
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That looks pretty good! About the best fit you could expect from aftermarket, I'd think!

Did you have to transfer your emblems over?
I thought I would have to, since there's no emblems shown for the item, but they came with emblems. I used a little epoxy to cement them into place.
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That matches really well, I'm shocked.

Side note: your rims are in incredible condition. The machined face on mine have been pitted and have really been worn down, but yours look pristine!

Side note2: your link doesn't work
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Link is working well for me. You will find them if you search 98-00 LS400 center caps on aliexpress
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Ok I finally boneheaded my way through to finding them, now it won't let me make an account 😂. It keeps erroring out at the bot-detector slider thing. And there is a zero point zero percent chance I'm using the Google\Facebook login method.

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Maybe I'll take this as a sign to pass.

Anyway I'm rambling. Mine have a few dings and scuffs but aren't too bad. I'm glad they work for you that well.
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Originally Posted by 400fanboy
That matches really well, I'm shocked.

Side note: your rims are in incredible condition. The machined face on mine have been pitted and have really been worn down, but yours look pristine!

Side note2: your link doesn't work
Yeah, they look pretty good. My chrome wheels were trashed when I bought the car. I had planned on replacing them for years but kept putting it off. Then I noticed the prices of reconditioned wheels started skyrocketing, so I took a look around again. Found these https://www.rtwwheels.com/1998-132/
I ordered one of the $149 wheels and it was just what I was looking for so I ordered two more. I already had one machined wheel that was in good shape. The wheels from rtw all were great. Happy with that purchase.
If you had a problem setting up an account at Aliexpress I would try another browser. Sometimes if I have a problem like that I'll switch between Chrome and Firefox and usually one of them will work when the other doesn't.
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