Styling Alloy Centre Cap - Help!

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Styling Alloy Centre Cap - Help!

ian1676

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Hello all! I have a 2009 500 1.4 Sport with 16" alloys and I've recently lost one of my centre caps. The caps are shiny chrome all over (no black/red markings at all). I can't find any on ebay (UK/Europe/USA) and a visit to my local Fiat delaer confirmed that they appear to be genuine Fiat parts given the markings on the back - they show a manufacture date of November 2008 (which fits in with the car being registered in March 2009!) - however, Fiat apparently do not and apparently never have sold plain shiny chrome centre caps!?!

I must admit I've not seen them on other cars - which is kind of why I like them! They were fitted when I got the car 5 years ago.

Any ideas how or where I can get a replacement? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks.
 
By the way - they're not the Abarth ones - I can get all chrome ones of those no problem! They look just like the standard caps with the raised 500 logo in the centre.
 
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Thank you but no! They look identical in design but mine are chrome all over - the ones you have highlighted have a grey/black centre. Fiat could only offer me those too.
 
I'll post a picture tomorrow morning - too dark now! Maggie thank you but I've found those too - they have a textured finish in the centre.....mine are just shiny all over! Thanks though!
 
Weird, is it a second hand? maybe the owner before painted them chrome? Because iv'e never seen them in another color beside black in the middle.
 
They're not painted - but it is looking like they may have been chrome plated at some stage given that no one else seems to have seen them before. You can plate plastic so maybe that's what I'll have to do?
 
If you show us tomorrow a picture of what you have maybe we can tell if its plated (my guess it is).
Today you can do this with Hydrographics (or just spray), friend of mine did it to his rims + mirror covers and it came out beautiful.
 
OK - I'm having some new user issues here! I've tried uploading photos of the cap but it keeps coming up with "Upload failed" on both my iphone and my laptop! I've tried to set my Avatar as a photo of the cap but I have the same problem! What am I doing wrong?? :bang:
 
I vaguely remember an issue early on with one of the finishes (can't remember if the chrome or the matt finish) flaking off the centre caps- perhaps this is what has happened here and a previous owner has stripped it all off?
 
OK - I'm having some new user issues here! I've tried uploading photos of the cap but it keeps coming up with "Upload failed" on both my iphone and my laptop! I've tried to set my Avatar as a photo of the cap but I have the same problem! What am I doing wrong?? :bang:


Go to photobucket.com and set up an account for free. You can then upload photos and it will give to a link to each one.
 
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That's cool, i guess the previous owner wanted these caps to look like the Abarth ones!
I can only find them in matte black center and chrome / red / other colors on the lip
 
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