Whether our car is old or brand-new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will facilitate you to resell it more quickly and higher priced. Whether it’s simply because you want to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are broken, changing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this specific article, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Audi S3. To achieve this, initially, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, after that, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the installation of the new ones.
How to select the hubcaps of my Audi S3?
It is essential to know that the wheel covers of your car are only cosmetic, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your car. It will subsequently be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only interest you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden behind them. Even so, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your Audi S3, they will protect them more or less well. Keep in mind that hubcaps only cost between 20 and 60 euros most significant to choose them will be to look at the size of your rims to choose the right specifications, you will have this data on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The rest will depend on your tastes, the purpose, if you desire to resell your Audi S3 for example it may be necessary to take off your damaged hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your car as tidy as it can.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Audi S3?
Now let’s go to to the part that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Audi S3’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 Audi S3?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Audi S3. This is one of the simplest maintenance actions, nevertheless plenty of people 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 Audi S3. Once done you should be capable to remove it by pulling it towards you. It is just fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Repeat the process on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your car.
Install hubcaps on my Audi S3
Last step of our tutorial, we move on to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be much easier. You just 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 S3and put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to execute the same operation on each of your wheels to complete the job.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Audi S3 and put new ones on.
If you want more guides on the Audi S3, go to our Audi S3 category.
