Whether our car is classic or brand-new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will make it possible for you to sell it quickly and more expensive. Whether it’s because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are broken, replacing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this specific article, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Mini Mini. For this, first, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to change them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your vehicle, then the mounting of the new ones.

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How to select the hubcaps of my Mini Mini?

It is crucial to know that the wheel covers of your car are purely cosmetic, they have no impact on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your car. It will as a result 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 at the rear of them. Even so, according to the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Mini Mini, they will protect them more or less well. Remember that hubcaps are worth between 20 and 60 euros most significant to choose them will be to check out 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 other important things to take in consideration will depend on your tastes , the objective, if you desire to resell your Mini Mini for example it may be necessary to take away your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your car as attractive as it can.

How to change the wheel cover of my Mini Mini?

Now let’s go to to the part that you’re most likely most excited about, how to change your Mini Mini’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 Mini Mini?

Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Mini Mini. This is one of the most basic maintenance actions, but the truth is plenty of people don’t know how it works and don’t dare to force on their hubcaps for fear of damaging them. In reality, 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 Mini Mini. Once unclipped you should be able 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 operation on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your vehicle.

Fit hubcaps on my Mini Mini

Last step of our tutorial, we go to the part of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less difficult. You simply 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 Mini Miniand put tiny punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to do the same action on each of your wheels to finish the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Mini Mini and put new ones on.

To find more tips on the Mini Mini, take a look at the Mini Mini category.