Gift Ideas For The Car Fanatic In Your Life
The holiday season is just around the corner, and if you’re thinking of a gift to get on your teenager’s good side, take this quick car-accessory tutorial. Once you know the lingo and you listen well, you should be able to work out what to slide under the Christmas tree this year.
These days, it’s wheels, wheels, wheels – the all important link between the car and the tires. Some like to select brilliantly hued, bulge acorn lug nuts or a cool center cap for rims of chrome, gun metal or customized color. Others slap on a set of stylish spinners, adopting the fashion of hip-hoppers like 50 Cent, Nelly and Redman. Another hot option is under carriage LEDs. Let’s just say it is eye catching.
Some Terms You Should Know:
• Spinners are bolted onto your rims and spin on bearings, your wheels get a nice impact of movement that is totally unexpected. Because rim spinners work autonomous of the outside rim they rotate even when the car stops at a red light, energized by the law of momentum, sliding along on their bearings with little opposition from the wheel itself.
• A factory center cap is what is in place in the center of the wheel when you purchase the car from a dealer. To jazz up your ride, you can purchase high-style chrome center caps that will set your car apart.
• The new center caps can be put in place when you upgrade your rims and tires. The caps cover the center of the rim and can have all manner of designs – domestic or foreign logos, even a concept design. An affordable way to find center caps for rims is through the salvage yard industry. Don’t forget the web; there are plenty of suppliers who would be glad to help you find the perfect set of caps.
• Aftermarket rims are rims purchased from a third party manufacturer and not from the car manufacturer that add style to your ride. Aftermarket rims come with center caps but you can get a set of unique center caps to really make them stand out.
• Hub caps cover the whole rim to protect and add style to the stock steel rims they normally cover.
• LEDs are an optional addition to rims. Powered by long-life batteries the LEDs emit a glow around your rims.
• Wheel spacers give additional width to the wheels and tires, shifting them out closer the fenders. This improves handling and visually adds a more aggressive bearing.
