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 posted on April 29th, 2011 at 06:29 PM |
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Beetle Dress Rims
Just got my Rims back from paint today, had tyres fitted and put stainless steel dress rims on that i bought from CVD
How are these supposed to fit ? Ive put them on, but they seem pretty loose, and i fear that they might fling off when I go to drive with them. Am I
supposed to bend the tabs out a little more or something ? Where the rim ends and touches the tyre, i thought the dress ring would sit flush against
the rim, but is raised leaving a gap all round.
Also, is it true that I have to drive new tyres in for 1000kms before i can put my flappers on ?
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| posted on April 29th, 2011 at 08:23 PM |
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dress rings normaly fit on a wider rim???beetle dress rims are normaly held on by the hub cap.
why put flappers on your tyres
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| posted on April 29th, 2011 at 10:02 PM |
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dress rings normaly fit on a wider rim???beetle dress rims are normaly held on by the hub cap.
why put flappers on your tyres
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Yawn...
to answer your question try expanding the clips on the rings to make it tighter
the reason people advise you to run your tyres 1000ks before fitting flappers is to help eliminate staining from the fresh butyl rubber in the tyre as
it will stain! the best way i found to eliminate the staining is to smear a very thin layer of clear silicone on the back of the flap/ whitewall (and
let it cure of course) this will seal the flap and help reduce some of the staining I will still stain but it will last longer
Keeping it real !
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| posted on April 30th, 2011 at 12:35 PM |
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dress rings normaly fit on a wider rim???beetle dress rims are normaly held on by the hub cap.
why put flappers on your tyres
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Yawn...
to answer your question try expanding the clips on the rings to make it tighter
the reason people advise you to run your tyres 1000ks before fitting flappers is to help eliminate staining from the fresh butyl rubber in the tyre as
it will stain! the best way i found to eliminate the staining is to smear a very thin layer of clear silicone on the back of the flap/ whitewall (and
let it cure of course) this will seal the flap and help reduce some of the staining I will still stain but it will last longer
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Thanks for the sensible reply, I will try the things you have suggested
Jeremy
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| posted on April 30th, 2011 at 03:01 PM |
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you do know why they are called flappers 
I have seen these guys at the national , they look ok.
http://www.redvan.com.au/
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| posted on April 30th, 2011 at 03:41 PM |
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posted by jeremyluke
Just got my Rims back from paint today, had tyres fitted and put stainless steel dress rims on that i bought from CVD
How are these supposed to fit ? Ive put them on, but they seem pretty loose, and i fear that they might fling off when I go to drive with them. Am I
supposed to bend the tabs out a little more or something ? Where the rim ends and touches the tyre, i thought the dress ring would sit flush against
the rim, but is raised leaving a gap all round.
Also, is it true that I have to drive new tyres in for 1000kms before i can put my flappers on ?
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Hi
back in the 60s the dress rings were held on by the hubcaps...
nice tight fit...
I saw a new boxed set of those recently somewhere for $475
the new ones.... are maybe made for mexican or brasillan hubcaps or wheel which aren't identical in sizes to German ones... a few millimeters
smaller or larger???
I have a nice new Hubcap but it won't go onto My German wheel...
I ended up denting it trying to put it on.. so it wasn't German quality... lol and have heard stories about the Brasilan hubcaps etc...
I haven't heard of the 1000klms rule for whitewalls ???
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| posted on April 30th, 2011 at 05:38 PM |
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Yes I do know why they are called flappers
Im talking about this type of setup, i dont understand how you can have them held in by the hubcap
(Not my car, same rims tho)
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| posted on April 30th, 2011 at 06:04 PM |
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right you have a newer vw mine is a 60s
You can buy those sort of dress rings at autobarn and places like that , I think 1990 Ford falcon Utes and panel van have them to . Like I said they
sit better on a wider rim because the clips have a bigger surface/ dish to clip onto. some beetle stock rims have a different off set up to 1CM,
Bigger dish on the out side of the stock vw rim
What sort are yours???.
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 posted on April 30th, 2011 at 06:24 PM |
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these rings lee
Lee , see in the pics of the front tyres how flapper don't sit right on the tyre and get a black colour after time . so That's why I guess
you have to glue them on .
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| posted on October 3rd, 2011 at 11:05 PM |
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never had a problem with my flappers or dress rings, the dress rings seem loose but i have never lost one
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| posted on October 4th, 2011 at 10:17 AM |
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I lost one of the Autobarn ones, found it again around the corner from my house and bent the tabs a little on all of them. They stayed on fine until
some moron stole all four of them. 
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