Porsche crest hubcaps

i just bought a Vintage Speedster and ordered the crested hubcaps (the Porsche crest sits on a raised center) from Tweeks. They don't seem to fit, and i'm reluctant to bang them on with a rubber mallet for fear of damaging them. Should i have bought the the caps for disk brakes, or do i need to buy the crests separately and glue them onto my baby moons?

Which wheels do you have? You should buy hubcaps to match your wheels. The wide-five 5-lug wheels and 4-lug wheels take different hubcaps, but you can modify the wide-five hubcaps (like the originals) to work on the -lug wheels. Do a search in the archives for info on the modificationo...

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thanks. i spoke with Kirk of VS...he told me the original did not sport the crested caps, but only had the baby moons.
Did you leave the EMPI center crest, or replace with Porsche??

You want to check out JC Whitney - smooth for 4 bolt are only $9.95

C13-10-1060 SMOOTHIE HUBCAP MOON STYLE 4 BOLT WHEEL BEETLE 68-79 GHIA 66-74 TYPE 3 66-74 BUS 71-92

Brian

My car came with supposedly original crsted caps but I bought the moons from CPI. They're pretty good but you can tell the chrome is not as good a quality as the crested caps. With all the thieving and vandalism I figured I'd just leave the moons on and put the crested caps away.

Brian

I suspect you pop off the empi emblem and replace with stutgart.
I prefer the moon caps. My VS came with crest caps that don't have the raised center. I plan to buy the moon caps. It is cheaper to buy the moon caps too. Under $50.00 including shipping for four moon caps from HTTP://store.cip1.com/

(Message Edited 3/12/2003 8:21:52 AM)

I went through the same problem. The answer is that there are no crested hubcaps that will fit the 4-bolt VW wheels. I found this out after purchasing about four sets of hubcaps. I went bact to the baby moons, but took the emblems from one of the sets and installed them on the baby moons. The effect is very good.

Richard Saccocio.

i considered applying the crests to the baby moons. how did you get them centered? they'd look really weird if they were out of round.

I was afraid that you were going to ask that question.
To begin with,I am not a perfectionist but close. The crests have a rounded configuration that is not the same as the baby moons. The first thig I did was to make a full scale mock-up (wood)of a baby moon on my lathe. Then I flattened an area on the top having the same diameter as the ctest. I placed a baby moon over the mock-up and using a stout piece of wood (a piece of a four by four), I hammered the flat onto the baby moon. Since the mock-up was the exact shape of the underside of the baby moon, the flat was exactly centered on the baby moon. This was the easy part.

I was afraid that you were going to ask that question.
To begin with,I am not a perfectionist but close. The crests have a rounded configuration that is not the same as the baby moons. The first thig I did was to make a full scale mock-up (wood)of a baby moon on my lathe. Then I flattened an area on the top having the same diameter as the ctest. I placed a baby moon over the mock-up and using a stout piece of wood (a piece of a four by four), I hammered the flat onto the baby moon. Since the mock-up was the exact shape of the underside of the baby moon, the flat was exactly centered on the baby moon. This was the easy part.

I was afraid that you were going to ask that question.
To begin with,I am not a perfectionist but close. The crests have a rounded configuration that is not the same as the baby moons. The first thig I did was to make a full scale mock-up (wood)of a baby moon on my lathe. Then I flattened an area on the top having the same diameter as the ctest. I placed a baby moon over the mock-up and using a stout piece of wood (a piece of a four by four), I hammered the flat onto the baby moon. Since the mock-up was the exact shape of the underside of the baby moon, the flat was exactly centered on the baby moon. This was the easy part.

I was afraid that you were going to ask that question.
To begin with,I am not a perfectionist but close. The crests have a rounded configuration that is not the same as the baby moons. The first thig I did was to make a full scale mock-up (wood)of a baby moon on my lathe. Then I flattened an area on the top having the same diameter as the ctest. I placed a baby moon over the mock-up and using a stout piece of wood (a piece of a four by four), I hammered the flat onto the baby moon. Since the mock-up was the exact shape of the underside of the baby moon, the flat was exactly centered on the baby moon. This was the easy part.

I was afraid that you were going to ask that question.
To begin with,I am not a perfectionist but close. The crests have a rounded configuration that is not the same as the baby moons. The first thig I did was to make a full scale mock-up (wood)of a baby moon on my lathe. Then I flattened an area on the top having the same diameter as the ctest. I placed a baby moon over the mock-up and using a stout piece of wood (a piece of a four by four), I hammered the flat onto the baby moon. Since the mock-up was the exact shape of the underside of the baby moon, the flat was exactly centered on the baby moon. This was the easy part.

I was afraid that you were going to ask that question.
To begin with,I am not a perfectionist but close. The crests have a rounded configuration that is not the same as the baby moons. The first thig I did was to make a full scale mock-up (wood)of a baby moon on my lathe. Then I flattened an area on the top having the same diameter as the ctest. I placed a baby moon over the mock-up and using a stout piece of wood (a piece of a four by four), I hammered the flat onto the baby moon. Since the mock-up was the exact shape of the underside of the baby moon, the flat was exactly centered on the baby moon. This was the easy part.

The crests come with three attaching pins on the back side. I made a cardboard impression of the location of the pins within a circle that was the exact diameter of the crest. I transferred the hole pattern to the baby moon centering the diameter of the cardboard impression with the flat on the baby moon. I then used a greese pencil to mark the pin hole locations on the flat on the baby moon. Holes are drilled at the marked locations. Some hand work had to be done to make the holes elongated which is necessary because the pins point inward on the crests. After all of this, it was an easy matter to attach the crests.

One last point. The baby moons were of course the cheap reproductions which are known to rust from the inside. In hopes of preventing rust, I painted the inside of the hubcaps with a two part epoxy paint making sure to apply paont inside the rounded over edge.

It was a lot of work, but the result was worth it.

JBugs lists Stutgart crest hubcaps for 4 and 5 bolt VW wheels in the most current print catalog. The p/n for the 5 bolt is AC601701, the p/n for the 4 bolt is AC601711. They list in the 2000 catalog for $19.99@. The website adress is jbugs.com.

Even if this isn't a current item- you can buy VW or Empi crest hubcaps from almost anybody in HotVWs ads, and get Stutgart crests from Stottards or Parts Obsolete. Good luck.

(Message Edited 3/15/2003 6:12:46 PM)

Guys, This topic has been discussed many times over... Check the archives on this topic. The raised Porsche hubcaps DO fit the 4-bolt VW rims. A simple modification is all that is required. The diameter difference between the baby moons and the original porsche crested caps (5-lug) is roughly 1.5MM. Simply stretch the porsche caps where the nipples on the 4-lug hit the round edges and they fit. Trust me, I spent hours trying to find this out and another forum member hit me in the head with this simple fix as well.....

Porsche caps DO fit on 4-bolt VW wheels and it is a simple modification without worrying about wasting money on original hubcaps. Check the archives.

Andy

How many times do you need to say "Porsche" on the car?
Seems a little bit much to me. I've got a friend with a 911 and he's got about ten of those logos stuck on it. Can you say overstated? Seems overkill. The car is nice and simple in design, no need for all the logos, badges ect. Keep it simple.
Invest in some of those Coco matts, one of the best things I've ever bought for the car!

J-P