Anyone know of QUALITY spare tire covers - WRANGLER?

[ShadowsPapa]

My wife wants a custom spare tire cover for her JLU.
She's a Rudolph fan the likes of which the world has never before seen. Rudolph sits on the dash of her Jeep and when there's light, he nods.
She wants a tire cover that has the image of Rudolph, so that's going to mean custom design.
It also needs to have the hole for the backup cam. Knowing her, if I go for the cheapest one I can find, I'll be sharing the cats' litter boxes.
Who has had good luck with a spare tire cover - especially with camera hole? I've seen some that look like they cut a hole with scissors and then a 5 year old stitched around the hole.
Also concerned about the hole staying lined up with the camera, and having it fit snug, even be lockable.

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[Jaxmax]

Bill, we got one on my wife’s 2019 Sahara JL, it’s a flower with the hole cutout in the center, it still fits tight and hole is lined up fine, colors are starting fade a little, but that is fine we me when I am driving it! The camera hole is a pain to get a good look and a lot of covers the hole really stands out, with the flower it looks normal for the flower.
That’s what ya get for being parked next to that sweet looking Hydro blue Wrangler with tire cover the other day. We shopped online looked at lots of covers, have no idea who we bought it from. Pat’s 2010JK cover lasted nine years but was about done for color and getting loose. Don’t go cheap and take your time there are a lot of options including hard covers…..Jack

 

[Blade1668]

I wish I still had the hard shell tire cover I had on my LJ, it should fit a stock JL tire.
If you could find one of them it might be something you could work with. ??? Or this.

Then possibly get someone that could paint Rudolph on there?

 

[Jaxmax]

Bill you are heading down a slippery slope without lockers!
There are Rudolph covers out, (who would have thought) most are Christmas themed, your sweet wife is going to come up with a seasonal cover plan four seasons , six holidays and both your birthdays, ya gonna end up with a dozen!

 

[ShadowsPapa]

For her wishes, it's likely going to need to be a soft cover. I ran across one - need to find the link again- that had some sort of an insert that kept the hole aligned with the camera. Some have smaller holes, some look like a kid made them, this one had a nice look with some sort of insert that fit the camera to keep it aligned.
She wants a custom image on it. She's not settled on one yet, but along the lines of this one, Rudolph -

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Bill you are heading down a slippery slope without lockers!
There are Rudolph covers out, (who would have thought) most are Christmas themed, your sweet wife is going to come up with a seasonal cover plan four seasons , six holidays and both your birthdays, ya gonna end up with a dozen!

Naw, not with Rudolph attached to the dash, and her custom plates........

It's Christmas all year in her Rudolph room. Floating shelves up high on 2 walls, lined with Rudolph characters, a Rudolph quilt on the bed in that room, and more.

 

[redfish]

Check out Etsy, you can get customized spare wheel covers

 

[DobaMark]

I use a Boomerang soft cover on my Wrangler 4xe. You remove the stock camera cover and the tire cover includes a camera cover that justsnaps over the camera.
I tried one with just a hole for the camera and it often blocked part of the view unless I kept pushing the cover back in on the tire.
The only trouble I've noticed with the Boomerang cover is the air pressure dryer at the car wash can pop the camera cover off and I have to pop it back on.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P5N49G1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Check out Etsy, you can get customized spare wheel covers

The problem with etsy is - you have no known quality of the cover itself, where it was made, the brand, any details.
It's sort of like buying from eBay.

Unless I'm missing something, that is........

On Etsy, those with custom graphics range from 30 to 100 bucks, that's a big range of qualities.
Since good tire covers are on the upper end of that range, with no custom graphics, I'd avoid anything under 90 bucks on Etsy. It's got to cost those people time and money to do the graphics. Doing quality graphics ain't cheap, and since good covers cost upward of 80, at least from what I've seen, it's hard to imagine a quality cover that fits the camera for less than $125.
See where I'm going?
Free shipping - that costs them 20+
Doing the graphics - would you do it for less than $30/cover
Out of $100 for a cover, that leaves $50 for the cost of the cover itself. Too cheap.
I guess I'm wary since all they do is graphics, and that's danged cheap for a custom tire cover.

I guess I can ask 'em what brand the covers are, where they are made.

I use a Boomerang soft cover on my Wrangler 4xe. You remove the stock camera cover and the tire cover includes a camera cover that justsnaps over the camera.
I tried one with just a hole for the camera and it often blocked part of the view unless I kept pushing the cover back in on the tire.
The only trouble I've noticed with the Boomerang cover is the air pressure dryer at the car wash can pop the camera cover off and I have to pop it back on.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P5N49G1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Since I avoid auto car washes, that won't be a problem.

You seem to be referring to the sort of cover I saw that said it had a camera cover thing that held the cover in place around the camera, other than just a simple hole that may not line up well.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned those things - the holes would be problematic if small, and the larger ones look like crap. They almost have to have something to hold the camera hole in alignment. The image on Amazon (your link) looks like the sort I was seeing that guaranteed you could see through the camera - no "cover hole migration".

 

[Mike1965]

I use a Boomerang soft cover on my Wrangler 4xe. You remove the stock camera cover and the tire cover includes a camera cover that justsnaps over the camera.
I tried one with just a hole for the camera and it often blocked part of the view unless I kept pushing the cover back in on the tire.
The only trouble I've noticed with the Boomerang cover is the air pressure dryer at the car wash can pop the camera cover off and I have to pop it back on.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P5N49G1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Man I put this off and now time is running out and I am looking for the perfect gift for someone who has almost anything she wants, and is a real Rudolph nut.
We've landed on a final picture for a cover and I'd not mind something that really fit nicely over the camera and couldn't possibly cover it.

This is the image to be used -

Now tell me I'm not married to an addict LOL -

I don't have current pictures of the other shelves up on the wall lined with Rudolph and characters from the show. The whole small bedroom is a dedicated "Rudolph room".

A quilt she made, and one of the 3 trees up is dedicated to...............

(she did that cross-stitch and got a blue ribbon at the fair)

So, anyway, I'm starting up my looking again hoping to find a quality tire cover for her JLU that will fit nice over the camera and not interfere with it and fits the LT285/70R17 KO tires these come with.

 

[Hootbro]

Christmas tree looks like it could eat a couple ham sandwiches to fatten it up.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Christmas tree looks like it could eat a couple ham sandwiches to fatten it up.

LOL - yeah, that's meant for small spaces, more of a craft or hobby tree, a "pencil tree" is how they sell around here. Got that along with the other decorations when we bought the quilt shop years ago. Kept the Christmas stuff, sold the store later.
That one is her Rudolph tree and about all that fits in that small corner.

Then there's the tree on the "porch" as my wife calls it - the sun room - (I see the cats have been sleeping under it)

And then the main tree in the front room. It's a tiny house so can't have much of a tree. It was smaller and tougher to put up a tree before the walkout bay was added years ago.

But here's why I need the spare tire cover - for "Rudolph", her Jeep (which we finally got back today)

 

[Gatorized]

Buy the best cover you can find, then visit your local high school to find an artist to add the design.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Buy the best cover you can find, then visit your local high school to find an artist to add the design.

Paint it on? Naw, it's got to be permanent, not painted on the vinyl or whatever.
It's going to need to be printed, not painted.
The problem is finding the best cover that can be customized. So far, all I see are covers, some say they have "a hole" for the camera - but do they cut a hole and then stitch around it, or is it a proper hole that will line up and hold shape, etc.
I think the cover is more a problem than the customization.
That's going to have to be done online, sight-unseen as nothing local would do such a thing. (this is Iowa)

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