Whether our car is old or brand-new, we tend to appreciate to keep it in good conditions, whether externally or internally, taking good care of its car will facilitate you to sell it with less effort and more expensive. Whether it’s simply because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are damaged, replacing hubcaps is not a very complex action. On this page, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Lexus UX. For this, initially, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your vehicle, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to select the hubcaps of my Lexus UX?
It is significant to know that the wheel covers of your car are strictly decorative, they have no impact on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your car. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only importance you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden behind them. Nevertheless, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your Lexus UX, 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 have a look at the size of your rims to select 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 desire to resell your Lexus UX for example it may be relevant to take away your broken hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as clean as it can.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Lexus UX?
Now let’s move on to the section that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Lexus UX’s hubcaps. First we will see how to remove the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to fit the new ones.
How do I remove the hubcaps of my Lexus UX?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Lexus UX. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, but the truth is 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 only clipped on your rims. To remove them you will only have to pry the wheel cover with a flat screwdriver e.g. on the wheel cover to remove it from the rim of your Lexus UX. Once done you should be capable to remove it by pulling it towards you. It is only fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Redo the operation on the other wheels to remove all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Fit hubcaps on my Lexus UX
Last step of our tutorial, we go to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be simpler. You just 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 Lexus UXand put tiny punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to carry out the same action on each of your wheels to complete the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Lexus UX and put new ones on.
If you wish more guides on the Lexus UX, go to our Lexus UX category.
