Whether our car is old or brand-new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will facilitate you to resell it with less effort and more expensive. Whether it’s simply because you need to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are damaged, replacing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this post, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Honda Fit. For this, first, 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 vehicle, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to choose the hubcaps of my Honda Fit?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are simply decorative, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your car. It will as a result be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the most. The only interest you can give them is to take care of your metal rims that are hidden in back of them. Nevertheless, dependant upon the quality of the wheel cover of your Honda Fit, they will protect them more or less well. Bear in mind that hubcaps only cost between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to evaluate 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 purpose, if you need to resell your Honda Fit for example it may be relevant to remove your broken hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your car as attractive as it can.
How to change the wheel cover of my Honda Fit?
Now let’s move on to the part that you’re almost certainly most interested in, how to change your Honda Fit’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take out the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to fit the new ones.
How do I take out the hubcaps of my Honda Fit?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Honda Fit. This is one of the simplest maintenance procedures, however 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 only 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 Honda Fit. Once unclipped you should be capable 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 out all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Install hubcaps on my Honda Fit
Last step of our guide, we go to the part of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less complicated. 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 Honda Fitand put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to accomplish the same operation on each of your wheels to finish the job.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Honda Fit and put new ones on.
If you need more tutorials on the Honda Fit, go to our Honda Fit category.
