Reference:
http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts...06&hg=36&fg=15

I'm not exactly sure which rim I have off the top of my head but that looks like it. Standard 05 MCS rims.

It appears as if someone has stolen one of my part 05's: MINI PLAQUE WITH ADHESIVE FILM $1.96.

Either that or it spontaniously fell off. I certainly haven't done anything to knock it off. Maybe that car wash with the high pressure rim cleaners did it but I think I would have noticed it before now if that was the case. It's on the back right tire, though, so possibly it could have been missing for a while and I never noticed.

At first I thought the whole part 04 HUB CAP, SILVER was gone but on second inspection, no, that's still there, just the bit in the center that says "MINI" is gone.

I'll just assume someone wanted a nice coaster.

But as long as I'm missing one, any ideas on ammusing replacements? I'm not entirely hooked on replacing it with another one that says MINI. Maybe if I could replace all 4 with a plaque that has the American flag or skull and crossbones, etc, etc.

Any thoughts? I don't know if alternatives are available or if so, from where, or what I'd even search on to find such a thing online.

 

Why don't you talk to your MA about the missing peice?


Art

 

Those parts are cheap and would be great for doing some fun projects! Thanks! I'll order some of them when I think of something to do with them.

I think these would be neat:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA%3AIT&rd=1

They did not sell so are probably still available..

 

Hehe, the same thing happened to me on the same wheel as yours

I called my MA and told her about it, so she said she would send me a new one free of charge. When I got it and opened the envelope it was a JCW one. Until then, I didn't know they had those, but they are apparently supposed to go on the JCW wheels. Well, since I have a JCW I thought that they were still appropriate, so I had to pop the other 3 off and get 3 more of the JCW ones (which I paid for since they didn't fall off)

 

Now that I know what to look for, I've been searching ebay and Google. If anyone knows a place that sells "creative" options for 50mm wheel caps, let me know! Surprisingly, there's plenty of these things available for virtually every brand of car (including 3 different ones that say "MINI") but nothing creative that I can find. Maybe the fear is they'd be stolen.