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All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: Toast on April 02, 2009, 11:22:52 pm

Title: Vw centre caps Lugs breaking AGAIN!!
Post by: Toast on April 02, 2009, 11:22:52 pm

Hey all  as above I came home from work tonight so thought I'd wash the 30 :smiley:  Got the Snow foam out and was a like a kid a christmas :jumpmove: (For all that haven't tried this yet I highly recommend it)  So after doing that I did my alloy's as per usual before doing the 2 bucket method! While rising my wheels clean the front passenger side centre cap fell out :sad:! Soo I checked the plastic lugs and found 2 of them broken :mad:  This is my 2nd set of replacement caps as the same thing has happened before! My mate said he had the same problem with his mk4 r32!

Was just wondering if anybody else has suffered from this? Now when I'm at Vw on Sat to get my smooth grill and open mouth fog grills I'll need to get another cap  :jumping:


Toast :driver:

Title: Re: Vw centre caps Lugs breaking AGAIN!!
Post by: stealthwolf on April 03, 2009, 07:43:59 am

Dude, is this because of the high pressure aimed at them?

Don't have a pressure washer and mine are fine.

Title: Re: Vw centre caps Lugs breaking AGAIN!!
Post by: Steve Baker on April 03, 2009, 08:11:38 am

Quote from: stealthwolf on April 03, 2009, 07:43:59 am

Dude, is this because of the high pressure aimed at them?

Don't have a pressure washer and mine are fine.

Not sure a pressure washer would have enough force to break the lugs off. More likely if you have had replacement tyres fitted when the cap was replaced after wheel balancing it was damaged then ?  :ashamed: