BMW vicious hub caps - Cliff Pope
I've just nearly had my foot chopped off by a BMW with the nastiest and most dangerous car accessory I have ever seen.
The alloy wheels have a star-shaped central hub cap, the rays of which are razor-sharp steel, and which are angled outwards slightly.
It is hard to believe this is either a BMW original alloy, or actually legal.
Has anyone else ever seen these?
BMW vicious hub caps - Altea Ego
Yup saw a set on Dick Dastardly's car reg no 00
BMW vicious hub caps - Bromptonaut
These the things that momentum keeps spinning even when the vehicle is stopped? Saw them on an X5 in Holborn last week, first reaction was that it was suffering wheelspin, then just pity that anyone thought they added anything to the vehicle. Not seen close enough to comment on detail/safety.
BMW vicious hub caps - Pugugly {P}
Doubt whether BMW would be seen dead selling them. Bling.
BMW vicious hub caps - Schnitzel
Was it a new car? I doubt they are OE.
Were they like fake spin-on centre nuts (like horned viking helmets) like you used to get 50 years ago?
BMW vicious hub caps - Cliff Pope
No - they had about 6 pointed rays. The star was fixed to the wheel, and couldn't possibly have spun on its own.
I was thinking Boudicea's charriot was a better analogy than viking helmet.
BMW vicious hub caps - Tornadorot
Sounds like an anti-theft device :-)
BMW vicious hub caps - trancer
Why was your foot between the spokes of the wheel?. They usually only spin while the car is moving and right after it comes to a stop. Can't think of any reason why a foot or hand or any body part would be that close to a wheel under those circumstances.

Its a bit like under car neon lamps. Eye catching and cool the first time you see it, but that moment quickly passes. Blame for these spinning wheels can be placed squarely on the Italians.
BMW vicious hub caps - BazzaBear {P}
Spinners can be blamed on the Italians? How so?
Surely the Americans, if anyone, are to blame.
BMW vicious hub caps - nick
Spinners can be blamed on the Italians? How so?
Surely the Americans, if anyone, are to blame.

No, everyone knows it's Blair's fault.
BMW vicious hub caps - Cliff Pope
Why was your foot between the spokes of the wheel?.
They usually only spin while the car is moving and right
after it comes to a stop. Can't think of any
reason why a foot or hand or any body part would
be that close to a wheel under those circumstances.


It wasn't between the spokes. I was standing on the pavement. The rays of the hub cap were sticking out, and as the car passed very close in to the kerb the spikes crazed my ankle.
Imagine the grinder thing inside a food processor, about 6 " across, mounted on the hub cap.
BMW vicious hub caps - frazerjp
These spinning hubs or alloys are technically illegal & it wont go through the m.o.t wivout question!
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BMW vicious hub caps - Aprilia
Was this on an X5 ? I saw one in Leicester fitted with these.
BMW vicious hub caps - L'escargot
The alloy wheels have a star-shaped central hub cap


I'm going to beat "The Pedantic One" to it ~ they are correctly called nave plates, not hub caps.
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