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Your trying to use your old wheel covers on the new wheels? Are they the same wheels? If not, the cover designed for one wheel won't fit on another it's not designed for.....
You're not understanding me the picture above in the thread are the caps that go with the new 17s I just got. There not threading on the lugs my old lugs sit flush on the wheels not threads are showing to allow the new wheel cover to attach if that makes any sense maybe someone has encountered thus before
If I understand correctly, it sounds like you just need to get correct year lugs for the correct year wheel. In every wheel swap I've ever witnessed the lugs went with their original wheel. See if whoever you traded with has the '05 lugs.
I think you would be making way more work for yourself altering the caps. Try this: