Saw cool wheel covers on a Prius, anyone know where to get this?
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well, that's, uh... different. I definitely would have noticed those. Must be for efficiency.
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Well they sure as heck are not for looks
Looks very similar to what you see on some 18-wheeler rigs, they have some sort of filler device for the wheels that makes their face flush with the oncoming wind.
On long haul rigs when you have 18+ wheels and multiple tons of cargo I could see it being helpful, on a prius, not so much.
We did see though that one variant of wheel style coming on the Tesla Model 3 looks to take some inspiration from this sort of thinking:
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On long haul rigs when you have 18+ wheels and multiple tons of cargo I could see it being helpful, on a prius, not so much.
We did see though that one variant of wheel style coming on the Tesla Model 3 looks to take some inspiration from this sort of thinking:
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The Prius is already fugly enough...why make it fuglier with those wheels. It might help your range at high speeds, but then again making your wheels slightly heavier is also detrimental to range.
I replaced my 17" OEMs with 18" wheels that look much cooler, and added a deeper tread tire for better grip. I took a range hit because of the extra weight per wheel.
I replaced my 17" OEMs with 18" wheels that look much cooler, and added a deeper tread tire for better grip. I took a range hit because of the extra weight per wheel.
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Life is too short to drive an ugly car.
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What did you replace the OEMs with? Any pictures?
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I'd be concerned about brake cooling. But if most of your braking is regen, I guess it doesn't matter...
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Look at the last two pics in this post
http://gm-volt.com/forum/showthread...ftermarket-wheel-setups&p=3009001#post3009001
White diamond tricoat with 18" anthracite sport edition P4s
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Next thing you know, someone will try to mount carbon fiber racing bike wheels to their volts.
The car or the wheels? LolWell they sure as heck are not for looks
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Looks homemade. They took a Toyota wheel cover and used faux carbon fiber vinyl wrap or something and wrapped the wheel covers, that's why you see a shadow of the actual wheel cover thru the material, and left a small triangular cutout for brake cooling. It's obviously meant to be aero, some hypermiler trying to max out.
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Wierd, strange, ugly, butt ugly, baboon butt ugly, are adjectives that come to mind. Cool is not one of them. If gas was $100 a gallon they may be needed but they still would not be cool.
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I think a straight up aluminum disk wheel cover would look much better on a Prius. Maybe on a Volt, too. Maybe on a Silver Volt.
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