Have had 1 hubcap fly into woods from a pothole and one get cracked by road again.
Have used facebook marketplace, so far obtained 3OEM (2020) hubcaps for $50CAD and 4 OEM (2012) for $50CAD.
Trying to stock up when I see the OEM. They are supposed to be aerodynamically good from what others hav posted.
I look to pay from $15-25 per hubcap, the list price here from dealership is $150CAD+tax per hubcap.
Advise to zip tie hubcaps to minimize loss or damage.
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View my fuel log 2014 Mirage SE wussie cvt edition. 1.2 automatic: 37.7 mpg (US) ... 16.0 km/L ... 6.2 L/100 km ... 45.3 mpg (Imp)
I lost a factory wheel cover at 15,000 miles when one of my factory Dunlop tires failed (sidewall issue). I over paid for a used one on eBay at the time.
I picked up 3 free ones from a forum member a couple years ago. Thus, I am sitting at 7 factory wheel covers, but one is sort of busted up inside. I may toss it at some point.
Cheap steel rims with wheel covers work for me. I didn't buy a Mirage for its looks.
I currently have a pair of Nokian snow tires & a pair of Kumho all-season tires on my Mirage.
This summer it will be my all-season Kumho & Nexen pairs.
Next winter it will be my Nokian & hopefully a fresh new pair Vredestein tires.
Slapping wheel covers on whatever I am using at the time works best for me.
Dealing with wheel sensors is a bit of a pain in the States. 4 of my Mirage wheels have cloned sensors, & they can have their codes reprogrammed. As long as my Mirage recognizes the 4 original factory codes it's all good. Since the Autel sensors can be reprogrammed, I can always make that happen. The car doesn't know if it has a mix of factory or cloned sensor on it at the same time.
Back around 2018, no one in my area could clone a Mitsubishi Mirage tire sensor. Thus, I eventually bought my own Autel TS-408 tool and cloned my own Autel MX-Sensors.
My local small town mechanic that services our driver's education cars parked at our local high school bought his own Autel tool (I believe he bought a fancier model) after I showed him what mine could do. Since he has one of the only tire alignment machines in town, he does a good number of tires each year.
I have never had a factory sensor fail on any of my vehicles, but I have only owned two so far. My 2011 Forester sensors are currently 13 years old. They were still working when I pulled them off last fall. The Autel cloned ones are on my Forester this winter. The nice thing about owning the tool is that I can test all of my summer tire sensors before I put them back on the vehicle. Once one dies, I am replacing all 4 sensors & the worn down tires at the same time.
All the sensors on the 2015 Impala I used for my driving school died within about 2 months of each other this past summer. Lesson learned from that - if it's time to do tires anyways just replace all the sensors if one has died.
We had new tires put on that Impala & about a month later the sensors started to die. Even though I could clone ones for it, we spent extra $$$ having them installed after the fact.
TPMS = PIA
Installed capped lug nuts to prevent salt ingress into the threads.
The nuts press slightly on the inside of the hubcap so they may break/be lost easier.
Would still zip tie for the cheap price / high benefit ratio.
There is so much salt here that it was worth the tradeoff to prevent the nuts from rusting.