Whether our car is old or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will help you to resell it more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are cracked, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this post, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Audi S5. To get this done, 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 automobile, then the installation of the new ones.
How to choose the hubcaps of my Audi S5?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are totally cosmetic, they have no impact on the braking capacity, the grip, the speed of your car. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the most. The only importance you can give them is to protect your metal rims that are hidden backside them. Even so, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your Audi S5, they will protect them more or less well. Be aware 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 data on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The rest will depend on your tastes, the objective, if you want to resell your Audi S5 for example it may be relevant to take away your damaged hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your automobile as attractive as possible.
How to change the wheel cover of my Audi S5?
Now let’s move on to the section that you’re most certainly most excited about, how to change your Audi S5’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take out the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.
How do I take out the hubcaps of my Audi S5?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Audi S5. This is one of the simplest maintenance procedures, nevertheless many 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 just 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 S5. Once done you should be able to remove it by pulling it to you. It is simply fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Redo the process on the other wheels to take out all the hubcaps from your automobile.
Install hubcaps on my Audi S5
Last step of our article, we move forward to the part of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be much 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 Audi S5and put little punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to carry out the same operation on each of your wheels to complete the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Audi S5 and put new ones on.
If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Audi S5, do not hesitate to consult our Audi S5 category.
