Can anyone help me find some center caps for my new Borbet type "M" wheels ? I got them off Ebay (famous last words) and thought that Borbet would be a popular enough name I would be able to find some replacements easily... not locally anyways. I am even guessing at the model type except for a picture on Brent Franker's appearance guide that calls them type "M" wheels. They are 17x9.5 and do fit my 1995 TA very well. Any leads would be very greatly appreciated. The picture links are :
http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/appea...rd/Borbet1.jpg

http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/appea...rd/Borbet2.jpg

Thanks again, Scott.

 

Well bro, that is my car and I took those photos. They are indeed Borbet type M but sadly they were discontinued a couple of years ago. I purchased mine from www.tirerack.com back in '97 and they are a great lightweight wheel. They are made in Germany and there are many dealers for them. If you type in Borbet Wheels in any search engine you'll find countless sources. If you ultimately give up, keep me in mind... I might buy them off ya!

BTW, here is their site in Germany......
http://www.borbet.de/index-lgb.php3?...y=&site_lg=lgb

 

I am also a Borbet owner (Type Ts)

I wish I could say I knew where to get center caps for your wheels, but I don't. I am very surprised that Borbet has stopped selling a lot of their wheels (I cannot find Type Ts for the life of me anymore).

My only advice is to keep trying eBay, or try to find a European (as in "Europe", not Americans owning a European car) car site and ask them.

 

Man, sometimes I forget how tight the F-body community really is - pretty cool the guys whose pictures convinced me to buy the wheels in the first place repsonds to my post !!! Joe, the wheels are beautiful and look pretty good without the center caps, just putting the stock lugs and black plastic lug covers on them. Anyways, thanks for confiming the model and the sad fact that they are discontinued.

 

I experimented with using a fabricated cover to use in place of the center caps. I used a flexible plastic flat stock and cut circular caps that were just large enough to cover the center hole. I siliconed them in place and put vinyl screaming chicken wheel center decals over them. The result looked pretty kewl. I don't have any pics as they were on my previous hard drive that crashed. You can imagine how it looked..... Did you try to e-mail Borbet directly and see if they have any options? BTW, here's another view:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...6/fbe0d4c5.jpg