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The hub rings were sorted a couple of weeks ago and these have been happily running on the Cab and look awesome...
The only issue has been the centre caps. Of the four I have, one is *very* loose (although I think I have that sorted now) and one has the clips busted up. While I have fixed one and am in the process of fixing up the other one I have been hunting around for replacement parts.
It seems that these centre caps were made of some sort of super rare unobtainium and Oettinger themselves stopped producing them a long while ago. While scouring the net I saw all sorts of posts of people who couldn't find them (even OLD OLD threads of people in the States and the UK hunting around). Before anyone asks yes I have asked Oettinger direct as well as just about everyone who knows how to spell Oettinger if they know of any without luck...
Until I stumbled on what I think must have been the last set of four on planet earth out of the USA. (Hell you can't even find one! let alone four!!!) Listed as "new" or "near new" I had to have them. After an eBay bid followed by a cancellation request (because the seller didn't want to ship this highly volatile package to Australia) I used my freight forwarding company out of Portland, Oregon and these little beauties are in my hands and holy crap are they clean.
They really are in "new" condition! So much so that I want to pull the all the wheels off to swap these babies in! (To be fair the outside of the ones I have are pretty clean, it's just the back which are badly pitted and scarred from years on the UK's roads). Needless to say I am one happy little dubber.
Bloody Beautiful!
If it has an engine or heartbeat it's going to cost you.
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