Whether our motor vehicle is old or brand-new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will make it possible for you to resell it more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s because you want to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are damaged, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. On this page, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Ford Edge. To achieve this, first, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to select the hubcaps of my Ford Edge?
It is essential to know that the wheel covers of your car are purely cosmetic, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. It will therefore be up to you to buy the hubcaps that you like the most. The only interest you can give them is to protect your metal rims that are hidden backside them. However, depending on the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Ford Edge, 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 look at the size of your rims to select 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 desire to resell your Ford Edge for example it may be important to take away your broken hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as tidy as it can.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Ford Edge?
Now let’s go forward to the part that you’re almost certainly most interested in, how to change your Ford Edge’s hubcaps. First we will see how to remove the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to set up the new ones.
How do I remove the hubcaps of my Ford Edge?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Ford Edge. This is one of the easiest maintenance actions, 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 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 Ford Edge. Once done you should be able 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 remove all the hubcaps from your car.
Install hubcaps on my Ford Edge
Last step of our guide, we move on to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be much easier. You only 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 Ford Edgeand put little punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to carry out the same procedure on each of your wheels to conclude the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Ford Edge and put new ones on.
If you want more guides on the Ford Edge, go to our Ford Edge category.
