Hubcaps?

[GotMirage501]

Why focus on just hubcaps? With some patience and a little more dough you can find a decent set of used aluminum alloys.

Wheels: What Else Fits the Mirage? (With photos)
Craigslist finds

Edit: and of course don't forget Fuel Efficient 15-Inch Wheels and Tires

I prefer to spend $25 and get a new look with wheel covers every year ..over permanent rims. Ive had both.

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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.

[Fummins]

4 oem (2012) for $50cad.

2012, jdm?

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2012, jdm?

Yes! they look so cool I think. Hoping no more hubcaps break but I really like the way they look.

[GotMirage501]

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.

My hubcap life has not been as eventful, but it may start...I just scored.a.set of 4 "Futura" brand off ebay for $25. It rained all day so hopefully tomorrow Ill pull the old off, clean the rims and see how these fit.

[Mark]

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.

[GotMirage501]

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.

All 4 of my factory sensors are working.
I hope if I need to ..any tire place can clone one

[Mark]

All 4 of my factory sensors are working.
I hope if I need to ..any tire place can clone one

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

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My hubcap life has not been as eventful, but it may start...I just scored.a.set of 4 "Futura" brand off ebay for $25. It rained all day so hopefully tomorrow Ill pull the old off, clean the rims and see how these fit.

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.