Thirty dollars and 26 cents

[Fishing Rhino]

Bass Pro no longer sells the wheel covers for the Nitro series.  I used to buy two per year because they had a tendency to pop off when I ran over a pot hole, or some other thing that jolted the wheels.  The price on the last one I got was over fifty bucks.  For a couple of years I've been travelling with just the plastic chrome center piece that covered the lug nuts.

 

I poked around and found these on Amazon.  $30.26 for a set of four.  

 

Before (sans the chrome lug covers)

 

 

After.

 

[Way2slow]

They look great, for now.  I hope yours do better than a  set I bought for my granddaughters car.  OEM hubcap was $80, one came off and one was cracked enough it was coming off soon, I bought four for $30 that looked just like them, just didn't have the logo in the center.  A year and a half later, they look like crap, almost all the finish has gone and they are mostly just gray pieces of plastic.

 

Like all this cheap Chinese plastic stuff, buy cheap **** and get cheap ****.

[Fishing Rhino]

Considering that I was spending about a hundred bucks per annum, when I could get them, I can replace these every year for one third the cost of replacing the originals.   

 

When I'm not fishing with it, the rig is parked in a garage year round, so the sun can't beat them up.  

Time will tell.

[Darren.]

Looks good! Do hope they last. My folks Toyota

was forever losing caps to train tracks or pot holes.

[tander]

Those look great and for the price, you can buy a bunch of them.

[Gotfishyfingers?]

Nice upgrade for the price. I might just have to look into a pair..

[Fishing Rhino]

I don't know if you can get just two.  The ones I saw were priced per four.

["hamma"]

sweet deal,..looks good too, hope they stay on better then the oem

[WIGuide]

Just curious, but if you keep having these issue why not just upgrade to a normal trailer rim? You can get ones of similar design to the hubcaps you bought for likely less than $100 per rim. If you were paying $100 a year for a plastic covers, upgrading rims would actually be cheaper in the long run and you wouldn't have these problems anymore. 

[Fishing Rhino]

1 hour ago, WIGuide said:

Just curious, but if you keep having these issue why not just upgrade to a normal trailer rim? You can get ones of similar design to the hubcaps you bought for likely less than $100 per rim. If you were paying $100 a year for a plastic covers, upgrading rims would actually be cheaper in the long run and you wouldn't have these problems anymore. 

 

The old covers had spring steel "grabbers" with pointed edges which tried to dig into the wheel as it was pulled off.  I improved on them by cutting an aluminum soda can and then folded  the strips into shims which made the "grabbers" press more firmly against the wheel.  That much improved their ability to stay put.

 

These covers have plastic fingers and a tempered wire which holds the fingers out.  The fingers fit into a groove around the wheel where the center hub meets the wheel.  The fingers pop into that groove when you install them.

 

Had I known then, what I know now, I would have done as you suggested.