wheel covers

[Mark Norris]

It does however reduce the noise from expletives by the driver watching a wheel cover go rolling down the road when you make a hard turn.

Thank goodness mine have zero chance of coming off since were already secured with the double machine screw method hence no anxiety about drilling through each lovely cover ...someone else had already done that! But honestly with the screw heads painted black its almost impossible to see.

[Mark Norris]

I actually have only driven this car less than a mile since purchase; been paying attention addressing several 68 year old shortcomings. I decided to replace the rims having read they might be less apt to flex with radials. lessening chance of wheel cover failure.Haven't learned as yet about "the noise the wheel covers make" unless that noise was when they fail. Vacuum, or lack of it, comes next. George Perry

Hopefully you won't experience it but some cars (mine included) sound like a small steel band when the going slowly (above that the road noise drowns it out). We think its the sound of the stainless steel tangs on the wheel covers flexing and then the sound being magnified by the shape of the cover. So each/some wheels on the car make a series of pinging/dinging sounds as the it/they turn. Its especially obvious if you drive next to a stone wall with the drivers window down. One could of course remove the covers one at a time and find out which one is doing it and adjust the tangs to see if it helps. Anyway the recommended steel wheels from Vinteq did not change it.

[Barry Wolk]

Hopefully you won't experience it but some cars (mine included) sound like a small steel band when the going slowly (above that the road noise drowns it out). We think its the sound of the stainless steel tangs on the wheel covers flexing and then the sound being magnified by the shape of the cover. So each/some wheels on the car make a series of pinging/dinging sounds as the it/they turn. Its especially obvious if you drive next to a stone wall with the drivers window down. One could of course remove the covers one at a time and find out which one is doing it and adjust the tangs to see if it helps. Anyway the recommended steel wheels from Vinteq did not change it.

Curious, did you use rubber or all-metal valve stems isolated from the wheel cover with short pieces of fuel line as a buffer. If you did that would stop the cover from trying to rotate. That's what you're hearing. If stopped from rotation the spring steel bites into the wheel rim stopping it securely.

[Mark Norris]

Since the covers are secured from falling off or rotating by the two machine screws through each then impact with the rubber valve stems doesn't seem to be an issue. I've always meant to remove one cover at a time and see if I can which ones are make the most noise.