Will These Center Caps Work?

[HotDamnGotaRam]

Trying to fix up my RAM and make it look a little less plain. Repaired rust damage and repainted the rockers. Came out real nice. Put a chrome grill in it. Today I bought some chrome center caps which look a lot better than the cheesy painted plastic that came on the steelies. I want to sand blast and paint them and get some trim rings. Took off a set of lug nuts to make sure they fit. They do, but I'm not sure if they are seated correctly. Seems to tighten down OK, but I just don't know about how they fit. Posting some pics. Hope somebody can tell me if this will work or not or maybe how to make them work. They don't seat tightly on the rim and have a small gap. I can live with that, but don't want my wheels to come flying off! BTW they look better than in the pics. Most of that weirdness is reflections.

 

[HotDamnGotaRam]

Well I went down to the local tire store and they said they should work. My main concern is whether or not the nuts will seat on the steel hub or the what looks like aluminum caps. Maybe it doesn't matter?

 

[HotDamnGotaRam]

Well they seem to bolt up just fine, so guess they'll do. The cleaned up real nice. Going to paint the rims and get some trim rings for it. Think it'll look pretty sharp and save me the expense of new alloy rims that will prob just leak anyway.

 

[RamDiver]

I had similar concerns when I bought the plastic center caps from the dealership.

My truck was a Night Edition Warlock with black 20" alloy rims.
I bought OE 17" steel rims with center caps, supplied them with BFG winter tires and had them installed for the January delivery date.

I bought the rims and center caps at the parts department, and recall the fitment on the rims and with the lug nuts seemed questionable.

I took a gamble that they were engineered correctly, and when I picked up my new truck, they looked OK. I continued to obsess over the fitment for the first couple of times I changed them.

I've finally accepted that they appear to sit a bit high on the rims, not that flush.
I have never found that the lug nuts' torque setting has loosened off when I checked them; they're good.













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[HotDamnGotaRam]

What are you using for trim rings? Found a nice chrome over stainless set on ebay, but the seller says they won't fit?! I think they will, but he says no. He recommended a much pricier set of "skins" that look like hub caps to me. No wait, I see wheel weights, so no trim rings? Surely somebody makes some that would fit.