What happened to hubcaps?

>>17521358
Lower production costs for decent quality alloy wheels.

Sorry you were born too late to enjoy your shit taste.

>>17521373
stockies are the best mate, get fucked.

go rob the bin at your local tyre shop for some steelies and skid tyres, whack on some chrome hubcaps from your local auto store and do some single peggers. list your pile of shit alloy nigger rims on scumtree/ fleabay. profit.

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People finally realized that steelies look better, even than 90% of alloy's.

>>17521425
its true. Some silly cunt needs to start up an automobile business and make absolutely top cars and give them all steelies to fuck faggots off and encourage fellow automakers to switch over to the best wheels around.

>>17521425
Yes

>>17521358
Am I the only one that hates hubcaps? I honestly think it screams that your car is so cheap that even the factory didn't want to waste money on real rims

>>17521399
this is the most bogan post ive ever read on /o/

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>>17521358
>tfw even your spare wheel looks rice
>it actually is more rice than your actual wheels

>>17521732
No, to me, it makes the wheels look solid, with ricer rims on every car, it looks like the wheel might bend on a bump

>>17521425

That looks disgusting tho

>>17521872
No it looks solid

>>17521732

Depends on the hubcaps. Stock ones can look ok, but most dollar hubcaps from autoparts stores are complete shit.

>>17521732
>Am I the only one that hates hubcaps?

No they were shit to cover shit.

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>>17521880

I like steelies, but...

>puting generic positive offset steelies on a modern car that was meant to have negative offset wheels

I dont even care about muh shitment, but this shit is just as retarded.

Stock wheels for refernce.

>>17521919

Meant to quote>>17521875

>>17521932
My problem with these rims is that they look fragile, an something like this is on every new car. That's why I have always preferred hubcaps. I have never understood the appeal of wheels like in your pic.

>>17521425
Wasn't this made for people who wanted to replace the wheels and bumpers

>>17522021
Good alloys are as strong as steel wheels.
And steel wheels look LIKE SHIT. Hubcaps ARE SHIT. Attaching flimsy pieces of plastic to cover up shitty black steelies isn't my idea of a good time.

>>17522030
Yeah and the interiors were almost completely stripped too. No radio or any other creature comforts.

>>17521358
This is one thing I don't miss about 90's and early 00's styling, hubcaps were and are ugly as hell.

>>17521732
No, if I had a car with steelies I wouldn't run hubcaps. They add unsprung weight and trap moisture/salt etc. rusting the steel wheels faster. No benefit at all.

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>alloy
>steel

pig disgusting, magnesium only

>>17522486
>magnesium
Have fun when you crash, it catches fire, and it literally will not stop burning until there's nothing left to burn no matter what you do.
http://www.firehouse.com/article/11300616/firefighter-training-extinguishing-magnesium-fires

>>17522039
They could atleast make them look more tasteful, I have never seen an alloy wheel that I would consider taste full. Hubcaps had problems, but I would rather have that than river or nigger alloy wheels.
>also not all hubcaps are made of plastic, you know that right?

>>17523683
Ricer* sorry auto correct

>>17523683

Modern cars have nigger rims because everything smaller than 18 inches look small on all that pigfat.

>>17523733
>everything smaller than 18 inches look small
no
>mfw my car came with 14"
>mfw 2017 model still comes ith 14"

>>17521425
Looks like shit, like someone swapped in the wheels from an old cop car

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>>17523743

What sub-compact are you driving that still has decent proportions?

>>17521739
We have bogans around here too. We just call them rednecks.

>>17521399
Why are there so many bogans on /o/?

>>17521732
1970's hubcaps looked okay.

>>17522039
wrong.

>>17521358
>What happened to hubcaps?
Hubcaps are not used on alloy rims. That is why you don't see them around except for mid 1990 and older cars.

So, your real question should be: why were steel rims (with hubcaps) replaced by alloy rims?

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>>17521358
>OP posts my hubcaps
a-am I cool?

>he doesn’t drive a clean as fuck Dacia with steelies

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>>17525740

>>17521358
hubcaps ARE disgusting nigger shit though
they're dress up parts for poor people that have to get generic steel wheels on their car

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>>17525746

Those Dacia center caps are pretty nice

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>>17522486
>race autozam

I really fucking want that shit.