RedHonda

I'm thinking about putting the Gun Metal TL-S rims on my coupe, but I can't seem to find any Honda gun metal center caps to replace the Acura ones. Any help would be appreciated. I'm including a picture or two of what I'm talking about.

Thanks!

MSchu

I couldn't even begin to think where you would get gunmetal caps in the correct OD/ID that say H for those particular rims if they even exist... try the eBay

RedHonda

I would settle for some plain caps long as the color was right. I couldn't find anything but Acura caps on eBay, and they were $35 each. Ideally I would like to get Honda or plain and pay about $10 each. You think there's any way to fill in the Acura logo? Or am I pretty much just stuck with it?

MSchu

I personally don't think the logo is bad at all... you know what it stand for don't you? it is universally Honda after all anyway

RedHonda

I'd guess "Acura"? and probably feel stupid for guessing it once you tell me what it actually stands for... haha

MSchu

lol... well here ya go:



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BLKFLSH

The Acura logo looks like the Honda H with the top two sides pinched together. I would not want Lexus symbols on my Accord wheels, but Acura's A would be ok, imo. It's all Honda.

RedHonda

I don't know if I'm buying the whole "Protractor" thing.. haha

MSchu

That's not a protractor... and the caliper/compass IS why the acura logo is shaped that way, you learned something new today.

RedHonda

Maybe I'm a jerk, but I'm still not buying it.. haha sorry.. I like the "It looks like an "H" pinched together at the top" explanation better... haha

MSchu

oh well... I brought a horse to water but drinking not, he is.

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Cowl287

the center caps from a 09 civic ex will fit and the color will be close

Weifast

Or just repaint the Acura center caps to H center caps with the proper color or however you like it. A lot of guys have redone their CTR and ITR center wheel caps due to either old age or damage and they have come out great.

redbull-1

As was stated previously by MShu, the symbol represents a pair of calipers. Quote from article: "Before Honda could take on the big guns, though, the new division needed a name. The automaker turned to San Francisco-based NameLab. Company founder Ira Bachrach and his staff created "Acura" from "acu," a word segment that means "precise" in many languages. Building on this precision theme, the "A" in the Acura logo became a stylized pair of calipers-a tool used for exacting measurements."

http://www.hondatuningmagazine.com/f...ura/index.html

catchmp82

i think the 09 ex civic wheel center caps will work too... they are a lot darker then the 07 08 SI wheels... they have to be a very close match!

0Janet@bisimoto

Those Acura rims look nice the way they are.

lou-tdi

Yeh they look ok really

dleccord

are they suppose to be shiny? cuz the flat gunmetal looks better.

HondaFan6975

Leave it as it is. Those that know understand that symbol for precision meaning its Honda just improving on themselves. Those look tight as they are and shows that you've improved your stock accord.

lynchony

WOW those rims are amazing...

metaender

Technically Acura is a part of Honda, same company, just different name. So over in Japan all the Acura's are labeled as Hondas, it's a JDM thing, or whatever.

If I were and I wanted to make 'em say "H", I might go online and find some sticker Honda emblems and stick 'em over it! Pretty straight forward.

Or you could have 'em painted or something, ha. Otherwise, at least they're the same vehicle company basically! So you could get away with it if you wanted to!

slomofo

iTrader: (1)

Why don't you just take your center caps to a sticker shop and have them make new stickers with an H in the center if it bothers you that much?

Or if you really wanted, you could have the sticker shop make you an H to put on each center cap. Paint the caps black, apply the sticker, paint the caps gunmetal, remove the sticker, clearcoat the caps, then poof... new center caps.

LFSoccer2k6

They make Honda gun metal centercaps. I have some.