Whether our car is classic or brand-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 more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s because you need to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are cracked, changing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this post, we will learn you how to remove an hubcap on my Mercury Mariner. To get this done, first, 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 car, then the fitting of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Mercury Mariner?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are purely cosmetic, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your car. It will subsequently 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 backside them. Nevertheless, depending on the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Mercury Mariner, they will protect them more or less well. Be aware 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 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 desire to resell your Mercury Mariner for example it may be important to take out your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as attractive as it can be.
How to change the wheel cover of my Mercury Mariner?
Now let’s go to to the section that you’re almost certainly most interested in, how to change your Mercury Mariner’s hubcaps. First we will see how to remove the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.
How do I remove the hubcaps of my Mercury Mariner?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Mercury Mariner. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, but the truth is a lot of persons don’t know how it works and don’t dare to force on their hubcaps for fear of damaging them. In fact, hubcaps are simply 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 Mercury Mariner. Once done you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it to you. It is only fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Repeat the process on the other wheels to remove all the hubcaps from your car.
Install hubcaps on my Mercury Mariner
Last step of our tutorial, we go to the part of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less complicated. You simply have to identify the inflation nozzle of your wheel, align it with the notch on your hubcap, present the hubcap in front of the rim of your Mercury Marinerand put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to accomplish the same action on each of your wheels to finish the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Mercury Mariner and put new ones on.
If you want more tutorials on the Mercury Mariner, go to our Mercury Mariner category.
