Yeah metal and plastic don't weld together. My guess would be it's integrated into the center cap...so they'd need to pop out the center cap with the Aero cover coming with it.
The aero covers might be removable in the sense that breaking them is the only way to remove them. Depends on the original design intent.
I think Scooby24 put it best with 'metal and plastic don't weld together'. So unless they've used guerilla glue to keep those things on, they should be able to come off easily. Otherwise there are going to be a boat load of snapped aero covers lol.
Having been on the design side of a plastic part that was never supposed to be separated from an aluminum part, I reassert “it depends on the design intent.”
Not too surprising. Luckily, most people don't care about preserving them I'd think, so if they get destroyed when they are removed, no big loss. I can understand why a dealership would be hesitant to do that though, especially on a brand new vehicle.
Right. It really just means the wheel covers aren't meant to be removed and reattached later. Obviously it's all but impossible to create a plastic wheel cover that could not be physically separated from a metal wheel.
I think to me the main question is why? The car weighs 4800lbs, would 4 lbs of extra aluminum make a difference? On the other hand, it would look way better to have a fully aluminum wheel (assuming that's the material they used) instead of a 90% aluminum wheel and 10% cheap plastic on a $65k car.
This is more than likely the case. I’m only guessing since I don’t have a set of wheels to look at.Worth considering we are taking the word from dealership techs...my guess is they aren't the brightest when it comes to this design (probably never seen an EV with an aero cover) and probably didn't realize the covers are integrated with the center cap..so if they tried to remove it without removing the center cap too they probably were worried they'd break something on a brand new car which they don't want to do. All the other aero cover on the lower models are integrated with the center cap. No reason to believe this is any different. We just need replacement center caps.
Permanently attaching visible black plastic crap to the wheels of a sports car would be a remarkably stupid 'design intent'. I'm gonna assume Ford is smarter than that.
So, how does she drive??? Inquiring minds really want to know! Happy car delivery day btw.I can't get it until Friday, but she's on the ground! These pix are from my salesman. I'll get better pix after I get off of work.
I believe that's the way it works on Teslas too, removing their aero covers is permanent. I was hoping Ford offered a different design using the lug nuts to keep it in place and make them optional.
Not sure...lol
