An improved wheel cover overlay assembly with extended surround capable of being snapped on and over an existing manufacturer's or after market's automotive wheel cover and providing the appearance of a new or enhanced manufacturer's or after market's automotive wheel cover without the need of first removing said existing automotive wheel cover comprising:
- an inboard surface area, an outboard surface area, a peripheral boundary, a peripheral extended surround, a plurality of lug nut towers wherein said plurality of lug nut towers comprising through holes, a plurality of major flanges with walls protruding from said inboard surface area, wherein said plurality of major flanges comprising a plurality of through holes directly carved into the surface of said inboard surface area, a plurality of minor flanges with walls protruding from said inboard surface area, said plurality of minor flanges comprising a plurality of through holes directly carved into the surface of said inboard surface area, a plurality of hook-shaped members on said major and minor flanges comprising a hook-shaped member portion comprising a rigid polymer lip protruding continuously and axially and connected to a rigid polymer longitudinal edge, which is continuously and radially connected to a rigid polymer curved arm edge of said hook-shaped member portion on one end, and further comprising another hook-shaped member portion comprising a rigid polymer lip protruding continuously and axially and connected to a rigid polymer longitudinal edge which is continuously and radially connected to a rigid polymer curved arm edge on the opposite end, a tension tab guide plate, a tension tab guide plate slit, a vehicle emblem support device, at least one tension tab of said vehicle emblem support device, a tension rotation device prong, a a tension rotation device opening, a tension device fastener, a tension tabs assembly comprising at least one minor tension tab and at least one major tension tab, said major tension tab comprising a rigid curved polymer lip protruding continuously along the entirety of a rigid polymer longitudinal edge, which is continuously connected to a rigid polymer curved arm edge on one end and a rigid polymer curved arm edge on the opposite end, and said improved wheel cover overlay assembly with extended surround is manufactured by process comprising the steps of:
- i. selecting suitable polymer materials;
- ii. performing thermal cycle testing of said suitable polymer materials;
- iii. performing chemical resisting testing of said suitable polymer materials;
- iv. performing falling ball impact testing of said suitable polymer materials;
- v. performing pencil scratching testing of said suitable polymer materials;
- vi. performing abrasion resistance testing of said suitable polymer materials;
- vii. performing scratch resistance testing of said suitable polymer materials;
- viii. providing a three dimensional scanned imaging of individual component parts;
- ix. transferring said three dimensional scanned imaging of said individual component parts to an injection molding computer to generate precise corresponding design of said component parts;
- x. placing rigid polymer material in an injection molding to form said individual component parts;
- xi. finishing said component parts by smoothing said parts and removing all sharp and rough edges;
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- xii. chroming said component parts.