Whether our motor vehicle is classic or 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 quickly and higher priced. Whether it’s because you need to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are broken, changing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this article, we will learn you how to remove an hubcap on my Kia Picanto 3. To get this done, first of all, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, afterward, how to change them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your automobile, then the installation of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Kia Picanto 3?
It is essential to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are strictly cosmetic, they have no impact 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 behind them. Nevertheless, according to the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Kia Picanto 3, 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 have a look at 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 objective, if you need to resell your Kia Picanto 3 for example it may be real useful to take out your damaged hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as clean as it can.
How to change the wheel cover of my Kia Picanto 3?
Now let’s move on to the part that you’re probably most interested in, how to change your Kia Picanto 3’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take off the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.
How do I take off the hubcaps of my Kia Picanto 3?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Kia Picanto 3. This is one of the easiest maintenance actions, nevertheless 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 Kia Picanto 3. 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. Repeat the procedure on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your automobile.
Install hubcaps on my Kia Picanto 3
Last step of our guide, we move forward to the part of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less difficult. You just have to find 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 Picanto 3and put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to execute the same action on each of your wheels to finish the job.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Kia Picanto 3 and put new ones on.
If you wish more guides on the Kia Picanto 3, go to our Kia Picanto 3 category.
