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Hate to burst your bubble, but the center caps will rotate a bit on their own - ask me how I know. So an aligned center cap, after a bit of driving, won't be...
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A lot of car show people call it clocking screws. As in aligning all screw heads the same way. Aligning the wheel center caps is a must do. If you are really ocd, you will align the tire size on the sidewall with the valve stem hole and then the center cap. At the show, jack each corner and turn the tire until the valve stem points down. Then everything looks good. If you are really **** retentive, you will grind all the raised letters off the tire sidewall for a nice, smooth look.
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Having the point of the corvette flag in the C6, C7 and now C8 center cap point to valve stem has long been a tradition. When I picked up my 19 GS from MacMulkin over the summer thats exactly the way they were and it was the first thing I checked. I was pleasantly surprised that somebody in the dealer or Bowling Green knew of this tradition and followed thru.
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You have been around here long enough to know this is a Corvette tradition so it should have been done when you first got your car. Hence you shouldn't be worrying having to to go out to your cold garage because it should have already been done. Now put your jacket on and go check! lol
Last edited by Oh Boy; Feb 1, 2020 at 10:52 AM.
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Having the point of the corvette flag in the C6, C7 and now C8 center cap point to valve stem has long been a tradition. When I picked up my 19 GS from MacMulkin over the summer thats exactly the way they were and it was the first thing I checked. I was pleasantly surprised that somebody in the dealer or Bowling Green knew of this tradition and followed thru.
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Having the point of the corvette flag in the C6, C7 and now C8 center cap point to valve stem has long been a tradition. When I picked up my 19 GS from MacMulkin over the summer thats exactly the way they were and it was the first thing I checked. I was pleasantly surprised that somebody in the dealer or Bowling Green knew of this tradition and followed thru.
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Thankfully I have realized my OCD is obviously in remission compared to others.
All in jest, this thread is worth a chuckle!!