Whether our car is old or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking good care of its car will help you to resell it quickly and more expensive. Whether it’s mainly because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are broken, replacing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this article, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Kia Optima. For this, initially, 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 automobile, then the mounting of the new ones.
How to select the hubcaps of my Kia Optima?
It is significant to know that the wheel covers of your car are simply decorative, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your car. 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 take care of your metal rims that are hidden backside them. Even so, according to the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Kia Optima, they will protect them more or less well. Keep in mind that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to evaluate 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 purpose, if you desire to resell your Kia Optima for example it may be necessary to take off your damaged hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your car as attractive as it can be.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Kia Optima?
Now let’s move on to the part that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Kia Optima’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 Kia Optima?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Kia Optima. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, even so plenty of 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 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 Kia Optima. Once done 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 operation on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your automobile.
Install hubcaps on my Kia Optima
Last step of our guide, we move forward to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less complicated. You only have to locate the inflation nozzle of your wheel, align it with the notch on your hubcap, present the hubcap in front of the rim of your Kia Optimaand put tiny punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, 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 Kia Optima and put new ones on.
If you need more tutorials on the Kia Optima, go to our Kia Optima category.
