Whether our car is classic or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will allow you to sell it quickly and more expensive. Whether it’s because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are cracked, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this specific article, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Nissan NV. To do this, initially, 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 car, then the installation of the new ones.

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How to pick the hubcaps of my Nissan NV?

It is crucial to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are purely decorative, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, 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 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 Nissan NV, they will protect them more or less well. Be aware that hubcaps only cost between 20 and 60 euros most significant to choose them will be to 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 objective, if you want to resell your Nissan NV for example it may be necessary to take off your broken hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your automobile as clean as possible.

How to change the wheel cover of my Nissan NV?

Now let’s go to to the section that you’re probably most enthusiastic about, how to change your Nissan NV’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 Nissan NV?

Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Nissan NV. This is one of the simplest maintenance actions, however plenty of 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 Nissan NV. Once unclipped 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. Repeat the operation on the other wheels to remove all the hubcaps from your car.

Install hubcaps on my Nissan NV

Last step of our guide, we move forward to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be much easier. You just 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 Nissan NVand put little punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to execute the same procedure on each of your wheels to complete the job.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Nissan NV and put new ones on.

If you want more guides on the Nissan NV, go to our Nissan NV category.