Whether our motor vehicle is classic or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking good care of its car will facilitate you to resell it more quickly and more expensive. Whether it’s simply because you wish to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are cracked, changing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this post, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Kia Soul. To do 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 vehicle, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to choose the hubcaps of my Kia Soul?
It is significant to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are simply cosmetic, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. It will as a result be up to you to buy the hubcaps that you like the most. The only importance you can give them is to take care of your metal rims that are hidden in back of them. Nevertheless, dependant upon the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Kia Soul, 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 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 desire to resell your Kia Soul for example it may be real useful to take off your broken hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as attractive as it can.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Kia Soul?
Now let’s go to to the section that you’re probably most enthusiastic about, how to change your Kia Soul’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take out the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.
How do I take out the hubcaps of my Kia Soul?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Kia Soul. This is one of the most basic 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. The truth is, hubcaps are simply 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 Soul. Once unclipped you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it to you. It is simply fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Redo the operation on the other wheels to take out all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Fit hubcaps on my Kia Soul
Last step of our article, we go to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less complicated. You only 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 Souland put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to execute the same procedure on each of your wheels to finish the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Kia Soul and put new ones on.
If you wish more tutorials on the Kia Soul, go to our Kia Soul category.
