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At 09:59 AM 3/18/01 -0600, Jim Adney wrote: >All four wheel should be the same on a given car. On a 65 these >should all be 5 bolt wheels. I thought all the 5 bolt wheels used >clips to hold the hub caps, but I'm really not clear on this. If you >just have 2 wheels that are missing the clips, the clips and rivets >are available as replacements. Lots of places carry these, see Rocky >Mountain Motor Works, for example. I don't know about the T3 5-lug (sorry...), but T1 5-lug used clips up through '65, with 66-67 5-lug hubcap retaining being more like the '68-up four-lug wheels. The new (chromie) 5-lug wheels also use the late-style hubcap retaining system. Also, from personal experience, the replacement hubcap clips are nowhere near the quality of the originals. I seem to have to replace my replacement clips every time I take the hubcap off. Grr... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe