[Larry Navarro]

it really bothers me to buy GM Restoration parts and then the manner in which they fit is less than satisfactory. GM would have never let this happen on cars going out the door.here is my problem. today at a swapmeet i purchased a set of the plastic chrome
hexagonal trans am center caps for snowflake wheels. the caps have the retaining support which clip into the wheel itself. if you take the retaining clip and insert it into the wheel, it is nice and secure, but if you slide the cap onto the retainer to the point where the cap base has "bottomed" on the wheel it becomes loose. in other words the cap has drawn the "spring" action of the retainer away from the slot in the center of the wheel which causes the cap assemby to wobble a bit. does anyone know of a "rig" in which to correct an obviously bad engineered product?
thanks