Whether our car is old or brand-new, we tend to appreciate to keep it in good conditions, whether externally or internally, taking good care of its car will allow you to resell it more easily and higher priced. Whether it’s mainly because you need to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are cracked, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this article, we will learn you how to remove an hubcap on my Acura MDX. To achieve this, first of all, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the mounting of the new ones.

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How to pick the hubcaps of my Acura MDX?

It is important to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are totally cosmetic, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the traction, the speed of your car. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only interest you can give them is to take care of your metal rims that are hidden behind them. Even so, according to the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Acura MDX, they will protect them more or less well. Bear in mind that hubcaps are worth between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to check out the size of your rims to choose the right specifications, you will have this info on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The rest will depend on your tastes, the purpose, if you need to resell your Acura MDX for example it may be necessary to take away your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as attractive as it can be.

How to replace the wheel cover of my Acura MDX?

Now let’s move on to the section that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Acura MDX’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take off the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.

How do I take off the hubcaps of my Acura MDX?

Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Acura MDX. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, even so many persons don’t know how it works and don’t dare to force on their hubcaps for fear of damaging them. In fact, hubcaps are only clipped on your rims. To remove them you will just have to pry the wheel cover with a flat screwdriver e.g. on the wheel cover to remove it from the rim of your Acura MDX. Once done you should be able to remove it by pulling it to you. It is just fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Duplicate the operation on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your car.

Fit hubcaps on my Acura MDX

Last step of our tutorial, we go to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be easier. You simply have to locate the inflation nozzle of your wheel, align it with the notch on your hubcap, present the hubcap in front of the rim of your Acura MDXand put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to execute the same action on each of your wheels to conclude the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Acura MDX and put new ones on.

If you need more guides on the Acura MDX, go to our Acura MDX category.