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Originally Posted by tintin
Is this a sign that they're cheap Chinese ones (quite possibly why they were lying around  ), and is there a knack to persuading them to fit snugly? |
Yes and not really. I'm sure I posted somewhere (here ages ago) about how to tell the difference and one way to make them fit better, but there's no "knack", just brute force unless you "customise" them.... 
IIRC the lugs are a different, more rigid, shape and the spring rings are stronger too vs OEM. I think I got some of my cheap Chinese ones to fit by using much weaker rings from a completely different set (non-Audi) of spare/redundant wheel caps.
You might also want to look at the lugs and consider carefully paring some material off to make them more like OEM.
Edit: See this from 2017: http://forum.a8parts.co.uk/showthread.php?t=13223
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