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Originally Posted by instantninja

now that you mention it, my steelies that don't have hub caps on them are rust free. I just assumed it was from salt and sand from the road surface sandblasting the parts of the wheel that weren't covered by the hubcap. Now I'm unsure.

I think that the hubcaps cause the sandblasting of the uncovered areas, as I have only seen the steelies blasted down to bare metal on ones that had hubcaps.

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