Posted a close up picture of the 'best'
wheel when I was selling the 500 Sport but most of the centre caps were pitted & on some of them the red paint was lifting. I would have added to the 'pitting' effect from the purchase of a new pressure washer.
If you compare the 'old' and new ones you can see the difference.
Also posted a picture of an ex-member's wheel cap from his A500 that was posted
here. His peeling was more pronounced on the grey part. I don't remember seeing any peeling red paint on the ring - this appears to be stronger than the red rim on the F500 ones. IIRC the A500 discontinued the red ringed caps in place of the chrome ones
so they would have a similar 'edge' to the F500. There was also an issue on the
APE and
GPA.
So much for upgrading to red ones to get the Abarth effect.
Hand wash with a nice clean mitt is the only way to keep them looking like new.