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--Umm...How exactly is the Chrysler Building responsible for immortalizing hub caps? This article doesn't explain it and niether does the Chrysler Building article.
Uh, aren't these more properly wheelcovers, whereas the hubcap is a dust-cover for the axle bearing? I'd recommend this be moved to Wheelcover and a redirect to it created under Hubcap. Blair P. Houghton 21:00, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
"This guy freaks out when the judges tell him his invention sucks, in the end he needs to be escorted out by the security" http://www.makemelol.com/media/271/Crazy_Guy_Reinvents_the_Wheel/ I'm curious, is there really already this kind of thing to add to bicycles, to help keep automobile drivers aware of the presence of a bike? (I am presuming that is the reason he was talking about saving lives, etc.) 199.214.27.209 18:14, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
This article seems to confuse hubcap and wheel trim which are compleely seperate things. A hubcap only covers the centre of the wheel and is a functional peice designed o keep the wheel where as a wheel trim is what coverse the wheel for decorative purposes. this article is therefore completely wrong and needs a re-right and a new article on wheel trims. ( Morcus ( talk) 01:51, 15 April 2008 (UTC))
A hubcap is a cap that covers the entire rim that is meant for decorative purposes only.
A wheel cover is a cap that covers the entire wheel with no holes or gaps with exception to the air-valve hole. Its purpose is to keep dust and dirt away from the wheel parts.
A trim ring is a ring that fits on the outer portion of a rim. This is also a decorative part but can also guard the wheel from curbs if necessary.
A center cap is a cap that fits in the center of the rim and does not attach or touch the outer rim. These are meant to keep dust away from the lug nuts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MRhubcapCOLORADO ( talk • contribs) 17:24, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
There needs to be an article about the Steel wheel, to complement this. Currently, it's a redirect to something about cards, which isn't exactly useful. "Styled steel wheels" (as this article puts it) are only covered from one PoV in the Rostyle wheel article. That article needs to be made generic.-- Rfsmit ( talk) 21:33, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
On the painted steel wheels that were standard on most American cars starting in the 1930's or 1940's, a hub cap covered only the hub (the center) of the wheel, including the lug nuts. A wheel cover covered the entire wheel except for about an inch of the outermost rim.
Since at least the 1960's, cars that came from the factory with wheel covers have had black wheels under those covers, regardless of the color of the car. I can think of two posssible reasons for this:
For example: the first photo in the article 1960 Ford is a 1960 Ford Sunliner convertible. It has a white body, a red interior, and red wheels with wheel covers and wide-white-wall tires. The bare red wheel-rims are clearly visible between the chrome wheel covers and the wide-white-walls of the tires. (The white-walls on these tires are so wide that white wheels would actually be less visible than either black wheels or the red wheels that are in the photo.)
In the 1980's or 1990's, carmakers began using plastic wheel covers on some cars. These too have black wheels under them, regardless of the color of the car. Once again, I can think of two posssible reasons:
All of this is based on my personal observations, not on any published source that I can cite. That's why I am putting it here instead of in the article. Ftfrk61 ( talk) 18:28, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
Something I forgot to write in my first entry: a plastic wheel cover covers the entire wheel, including the outermost rim. None of the wheel is visible unless the plastic wheel cover has slots or other openings, as described above. Ftfrk61 ( talk) 14:21, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
In the accessible part of my car brochure collection, I have 2 brochures that use "wheelcovers" (one word) and 15 brochures that use "wheel covers" (two words). I also have 3 brochures, all for Oldsmobiles, that use "wheel discs". Those 3 brochures are the only ones I've ever seen that use "wheel discs". FFPC161260 ( talk) 12:03, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
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