Whether our motor vehicle is old or new, we tend to appreciate to keep it in good conditions, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will help you to sell it with less effort and higher priced. Whether it’s simply because you want to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are damaged, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this article, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Audi A6. To do this, first, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to change them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the mounting of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Audi A6?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are totally cosmetic, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the most. The only interest you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden behind them. However, according to the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Audi A6, they will protect them more or less well. Be aware that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to evaluate 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 goal, if you desire to resell your Audi A6 for example it may be necessary to remove your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as clean as possible.
How to change the wheel cover of my Audi A6?
Now let’s go to to the section that you’re most likely most excited about, how to change your Audi A6’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take out the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to fit the new ones.
How do I take out the hubcaps of my Audi A6?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Audi A6. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, even so plenty of people don’t know how it works and don’t dare to force on their hubcaps for fear of damaging them. The truth is, hubcaps are simply clipped on your rims. To remove them you will simply have to pry the wheel cover with a flat screwdriver e.g. on the wheel cover to remove it from the rim of your Audi A6. Once done you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it to you. It is simply fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Duplicate the procedure on the other wheels to take out all the hubcaps from your car.
Install hubcaps on my Audi A6
Last step of our article, we go to the part of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be simpler. You simply have to find the inflation nozzle of your wheel, align it with the notch on your hubcap, present the hubcap in front of the rim of your Audi A6and put tiny punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to perform the same procedure on each of your wheels to conclude the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Audi A6 and put new ones on.
If you wish more guides on the Audi A6, go to our Audi A6 category.
