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I have a FFF 3D printer, and have made quite a few parts for various cars. --I print mostly in ABS.

I've printed some wheel center caps, but in general, those are tough. THat is, plastic is not so great as a spring. Notice that even injection molded center caps often have a steel hoop to keep the 'fingers' spread open. With printed parts, that situation is worse -anisotropic nature of fused layers, makes the part have a grain, like wood. (tough to get preferential grain direction, for those fingers)

As others have said, it's mostly a prototype tool. But, there are times where the 'grain' doesn't matter.

Among other things, I've made a 911 steering wheel bushing, and even these silly little (hard to find) fuel-line clips...

OE broken, on the lower right.



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That was done with a .25mm tip.

I did model up a tail light housing, years ago. Clearly haven't done much with that. :-/
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