Whether our car is old or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will facilitate you to sell it more quickly and higher priced. Whether it’s simply because you want to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are cracked, replacing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this article, we will learn you how to remove an hubcap on my BMW X1. To achieve this, initially, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, afterward, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your vehicle, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my BMW X1?
It is essential to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are totally decorative, 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 most. The only importance you can give them is to protect your metal rims that are hidden in back of them. Even so, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your BMW X1, they will protect them more or less well. Remember that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most significant 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 objective, if you want to resell your BMW X1 for example it may be relevant to take away your broken hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as attractive as possible.
How to replace the wheel cover of my BMW X1?
Now let’s move on to the section that you’re almost certainly most interested in, how to change your BMW X1’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 BMW X1?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your BMW X1. This is one of the simplest maintenance procedures, nevertheless 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 BMW X1. Once unclipped you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it towards 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 off all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Install hubcaps on my BMW X1
Last step of our article, we move forward to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less complicated. 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 BMW X1and put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to accomplish the same action on each of your wheels to complete the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your BMW X1 and put new ones on.
If you need more guides on the BMW X1, go to our BMW X1 category.
