I would imagine you wouldn't want to do this but I have wrapped the center of the rim with a few layers of electrical tape in my poorer days. May be back there if gas keeps going the way it has been. The tape works fine just isn't pretty but who cares , no one can see it.

I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
Eat right ,Exercise ,Stay fit, Die Anyway!