Whether our motor vehicle is old or brand-new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will allow you to sell it more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s mainly because you want to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are cracked, replacing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this article, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Ford Mondeo 4. To get this done, 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 car, then the installation of the new ones.
How to choose the hubcaps of my Ford Mondeo 4?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are simply decorative, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. 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. Even so, dependant upon the quality of the wheel cover of your Ford Mondeo 4, they will protect them more or less well. Be aware that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most significant to choose them will be to check out the size of your rims to select the right size, you will have this data on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The rest will depend on your tastes, the goal, if you need to resell your Ford Mondeo 4 for example it may be important to take away your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as tidy as it can be.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Ford Mondeo 4?
Now let’s go forward to the section that you’re probably most excited about, how to change your Ford Mondeo 4’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take off the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to set up the new ones.
How do I take off the hubcaps of my Ford Mondeo 4?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Ford Mondeo 4. 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 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 Ford Mondeo 4. Once unclipped you should be able 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 process on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your car.
Install hubcaps on my Ford Mondeo 4
Last step of our guide, we move forward to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be much easier. You simply have to situate 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 Mondeo 4and put tiny punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to execute the same procedure on each of your wheels to finish the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Ford Mondeo 4 and put new ones on.
If you wish more guides on the Ford Mondeo 4, go to our Ford Mondeo 4 category.
