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 make it possible for you to resell it more quickly and more expensive. Whether it’s mainly because you need to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are broken, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this post, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Chevrolet Cruze. To do this, first of all, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, after that, how to change them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Chevrolet Cruze?
It is crucial to know that the wheel covers of your car are strictly decorative, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your car. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only importance you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden behind them. Even so, dependant upon the quality of the wheel cover of your Chevrolet Cruze, they will protect them more or less well. Bear in mind that hubcaps are worth between 20 and 60 euros most significant to choose them will be to have a look at the size of your rims to choose the right size, 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 need to resell your Chevrolet Cruze for example it may be important to take off your broken hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your automobile as attractive as possible.
How to change the wheel cover of my Chevrolet Cruze?
Now let’s move on to the part that you’re almost certainly most excited about, how to change your Chevrolet Cruze’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take off the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to fit the new ones.
How do I take off the hubcaps of my Chevrolet Cruze?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Chevrolet Cruze. 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 simply 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 Chevrolet Cruze. Once unclipped you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it to you. It is only fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Repeat the procedure on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your car.
Install hubcaps on my Chevrolet Cruze
Last step of our tutorial, we move on to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be easier. You simply have to identify the inflation nozzle of your wheel, align it with the notch on your hubcap, present the hubcap in front of the rim of your Chevrolet Cruzeand put tiny punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to perform the same procedure on each of your wheels to complete the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Chevrolet Cruze and put new ones on.
If you want more tutorials on the Chevrolet Cruze, go to our Chevrolet Cruze category.
