Whether our car is classic or brand-new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will help you to sell it without difficulty and higher priced. Whether it’s simply because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are broken, replacing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this post, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Bmw Serie 3. To achieve this, first of all, 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 vehicle, then the installation of the new ones.

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How to choose the hubcaps of my Bmw Serie 3?

It is crucial to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are totally decorative, they have no impact on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your car. It will therefore be up to you to buy the hubcaps that you like the more. The only importance you can give them is to take care of your metal rims that are hidden at the rear of them. Nevertheless, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your Bmw Serie 3, they will protect them more or less well. Keep in mind that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to check out the size of your rims to choose the right size, you will have this data on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The other important things to take in consideration will depend on your tastes , the objective, if you desire to resell your Bmw Serie 3 for example it may be necessary to take off your broken hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your car as attractive as possible.

How to replace the wheel cover of my Bmw Serie 3?

Now let’s go forward to the section that you’re most certainly most interested in, how to change your Bmw Serie 3’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take out the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to set up the new ones.

How do I take out the hubcaps of my Bmw Serie 3?

Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Bmw Serie 3. This is one of the most basic maintenance procedures, even so 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 only have to pry the wheel cover with a flat screwdriver e.g. on the wheel cover to remove it from the rim of your Bmw Serie 3. Once done you should be capable to remove it by pulling it to you. It is only 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 vehicle.

Fit hubcaps on my Bmw Serie 3

Last step of our tutorial, we move forward to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less difficult. You only 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 Bmw Serie 3and put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to perform the same procedure on each of your wheels to conclude the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Bmw Serie 3 and put new ones on.

If you have any additional questions about the Bmw Serie 3, do not hesitate to consult our Bmw Serie 3 category.