Theft deterrent full-face wheel cover
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Dec 4, 2001
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Mar 9, 2000
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Mar 9, 2000
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A wheel cover retention system includes a wheel having lug studs extending through the wheel, with lug nuts fastened to the lug studs to retain the wheel to the vehicle. A full-face wheel cover includes a base portion having an inboard surface thereon and lug nut passages extending therethrough, and further includes lug towers circumferentially spaced and integral with the base portion. Each of the lug towers is concentric with each of the lug nut passages and extends axially inwardly from the inboard surface of the base portion thereby terminating in an inboard end. Each lug tower is slotted to define cantilevered fingers thereon. A groove located inside each lug tower positively fixes the axial position of each of the lug towers on each of the lug nuts. Upon mounting the full-face wheel cover to the lug nuts, each of the cantilevered fingers is cantilevered radially outwards to respectively snap onto and over the flange of each of the lug nuts whereby the groove fixes the axial position of each of the lug towers to prevent overtravel of the cantilevered fingers during assembly of the full-face wheel cover to the lug nuts. The present invention also includes a method of manufacturing the wheel cover.
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