# Disappearing Hubcaps **URL:** \ **Category:** The Show\ **Created:** [November 21, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821 "2010-11-21T15:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821/1 "2010-11-21T15:36:24Z")
On the 11/21/10 Car Talk, one caller’s husband’s had an older Camry whose hubcaps kept coming off and getting lost. What’s the possibility the husband, who didn’t think hub caps were needed or he would have replaced them himself, were taking them off and selling them to the used parts dealer from which his wife was buying them? ---
**Author:** ![sabutu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@sabutu](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sabutu)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821/2 "2010-11-23T02:04:48Z")
I was spending about $25.00 every 7-10 days to replace run-away hub caps. I finally invested in $4.99 plastic ties, looped them thru the wheels… been 7-8 weeks now… never lost another (: ---
**Author:** ![sabutu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@sabutu](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sabutu)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821/3 "2010-11-23T02:08:56Z")
Plastic ties ---
**Author:** ![ignoramus9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d07c76/32.png) [@ignoramus9](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ignoramus9)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2010, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821/4 "2010-11-23T18:03:27Z")
As a fellow who has walked many miles along the highways of our lovely west, I count about one hub cap every 7 miles on average. When I drive, I go out sans hub caps. who needs em? thats my motto. ---
**Author:** ![deppercd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@deppercd](https://community.cartalk.com/u/deppercd)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821/5 "2010-11-26T15:15:33Z")
After one $40 replacement from a mail-order hubcap warehouse, and several lost hubcaps later, our teenage son suggested that it was time for custom wheels for our silver 2005 Camry. Talk about a way to sexy-up a granny car! We temper that by going ghetto during our 5 months of winter with the naked stock wheels, to which we have mounted our hard-core snow tires. HOT wheels for summer driving and functional/safe/UGLY for winter. Works for us in SE Idaho. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/disappearing-hubcaps/57821/6 "2010-11-26T20:21:52Z")
That is exactly the way that I roll, deppercd.