Showing posts with label hub caps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hub caps. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Concerning Hub Caps

Are hub caps important to the life of a car?
A red Toyota Echo sedan - not my car but one like it

I ask because this morning I went out to my car for something (it was parked in my driveway), and noticed the right front (driver's side) hub cap is missing.

Odd.

I'm pretty sure it was there yesterday when I drove to Lacombe, then to Red Deer, back to Lacombe and home late last evening (9:30 p.m. which is late for me).

My car is a 2002 Toyota Echo sedan, so it's not like the hub cap is from a "vintage" vehicle.  Who'd want to steal one?  I mean, if someone really needed hub caps from an Echo, why not steal all 4?

And if it fell off while I was driving along the highway (at 100 km. per hour), wouldn't I have noticed?

Should I hop to and replace it?  Or can I leave it till the next maintenance service, or when I'm having my tires changed over to snow tires (October)?

Just askin'...