Just a heads up for anyone wanting to buy some American Racing wheels. I've had my wheels for maybe 9 months and with in the last 2 weeks I've lost 2 center caps. I don't off road but I do drive on gravel. I called up 4wheelparts after trying several attempts to get American Racing to reply to my online customer support request. 4WP tells me they will sell the center caps for $19 each.

The 4WP guy was cool and gave me the phone number to AR. The first customer support rep told me to call back in 20min cause the warehouse was busy. The second customer rep dropped my call. The 3rd told me I had to buy the caps they wasn't going to send me new ones. So here I am with $1k+ wheels with a lame center caps design that looses caps.

I've started noticing other people on the roads missing their American racing center caps too. So unless you don't mind dropping $20 at random times for the heck of it, I'd recommend skipping past American Racing wheels. At least till they change up the center cap friction design.

 

Try using a dab of clear silicone to "glue" them on. I do that on my Eagle 102's because I don't feel they snap in tight enough.

 

hmm. i have had my AR Baja's since christmas. they havent lost anything. what rim do you have?

 

YIkes....thank up head up.

Mines so far hold up fine.. i have Mojave 17x8 on my truck.

I like Wandell idea .

When i tried put cap in center of wheel it was a bit hard to snap in i believe they might redesign that area to increase strenght to hold it really well. who know!

YOMAN!

 

I have the Chamber Teflons. Nothing sticks to teflon, including center caps.

 

I am looking at getting a set of these:

http://www.buywheelstoday.com/images_products/1991.jpg

My question is, is the rim put on over the center cap to hold it or is the cap put on after the rim?

The reason I ask is that I am looking for a nice set of rims where I DONT have to worry about the caps coming off. I have the stock rims and even after buying a new set of caps they still keep falling off. I tried that silicon trick but they still fell off. At $60 for a set of 4 I dont want to keep shelling out that kinda caash.

 

Center cap goes on after the wheel. Nice looking wheel but I would problably go with the moto metal 951 black. Course you'll need to find out how their center cap stays on. The AR center caps have a metal ring inside the cap that pushed out on a rubber gasket and it's not very tight fitting at all.

 

Anyone running the American Racing Chrome Cannon's. This rim has just the right backspacing for me but I don't want to worry bout center caps jumpin off of the rig?

 

Nice rims Impact but they dont make any for my truck. Only the 250/350, nothing for the 5x135mm lug pattern.

 

I used to lose the center caps from my AR Atlas wheels all the time. I probably had to buy 3 or 4 over the course of a few years.

 

i can't get my caps to pop on (although i'm not positive that they are the right ones). Did yall's pop in by hand? Mac