id436eg9045
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Funny. I’ve got the Orbitals and now I’m waiting for the calipers to arrive. I mean, I’m waiting for the entire car to arrive but yeah.
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Orbital Wheel Covers
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Rothgarr
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I have two of those suction cup devices and honestly, I'm not sure if they are strong enough to yank out the Orbital center cap. They already barely pull out the Tesla center caps.
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MTN Ranger
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Rothgarr
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Nice follow-up.
While you could probably do all four covers with a single package of weather stripping using the small piece method, I still prefer the full surround method for the simple fact that it takes just a minute to do each wheel (I wouldn't have the patience to cut and peel and place some 80-ish pieces)
id436eg9045
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Just did mine yesterday. Two packs of stripping to go around all four covers.
travis3000
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My covers just came in today. I have the 2 packs of weather stripping ready to go. Once I have time I will install and post!
travis3000
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They are expensive things for us Canadians , with shipping and duties I paid $450 Canadian ($366 US).
What I like about them is they will be very rare here, I haven't seen a single Tesla anywhere with these covers. It's 90% the stock aero covers, and 10% the alloy rims underneath. So I will stand out haha
What I like about them is they will be very rare here, I haven't seen a single Tesla anywhere with these covers. It's 90% the stock aero covers, and 10% the alloy rims underneath. So I will stand out haha
id436eg9045
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Another efficiency test with the Orbital covers vs. the Aero covers. Not sure we'll ever get anything definitive since conditions vary so wildly across most of these tests, but it's at least good to know that they're very much in the same ballpark.
Rothgarr
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I haven't seen another set here in the United States, either (Connecticut). I've only seen them here on the forum. But I did it also to stand out (there are so many other white Model 3s around where I live.)
Rothgarr
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Honestly, I can't imagine anyone buying these for greater efficiency. I would think they'd buy them either to look different or to better protect their wheels.
And tests like this are so hard to evaluate unless you do them repeatedly to collect a lot more data.
travis3000
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A few shots with the new covers installed. I love these things. Even with the weather stripping they went on perfectly , very easy to install.
Rothgarr
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Nice! They look awesome!
If there's one other reasonably-priced accessory I recommend to people with the 18" wheels, it spacers. By comparison, you can see how the wheels become much more flush:
travis3000
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Rothgarr
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You can get Blox Sport spacers (for Tesla Model 3) anywhere online. I have 15 mm front and 20 mm rear. They come in other sizes, too.
Bit of a stretch but wondered if anyone had pictures of the black orbital covers with red performance brakes (or red painted calipers, or red caliper covers) behind them? Can't picture them, but think they would look good and thinking about that combo on my car... so ideally with 2021 (i.e. de-chromed) midnight silver metallic car but I think those odds are probably pretty long! TIA
Rothgarr
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Here's mine -- black orbitals over red caliper covers. Even with the caliper covers which are much larger than painted calipers, it's already kinda hard to see through the orbitals...
Amazing, thank you. Yeah I was looking at caliper covers for that reason - make them stand out a bit more. I think that wheel/brake combo looks awesome. Rest of your car looks pretty cool too, love that rear diffuser. Cheers.
travis3000
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I posted pics of my car a few pages back. I have the black orbital covers with red painted callipers. You can see them yes but they aren't as noticeable as the stock rims underneath. Here are a couple...
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