Whether our motor vehicle is classic or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will allow you to resell it without difficulty and more expensive. Whether it’s because you wish to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are broken, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this post, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Opel Adam. For this, first of all, 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 installation of the new ones.
How to choose the hubcaps of my Opel Adam?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are only decorative, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. 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 protect your metal rims that are hidden at the rear of them. Even so, depending on the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Opel Adam, they will protect them more or less well. Be aware that hubcaps are worth between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to check out the size of your rims to choose the right specifications, 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 want to resell your Opel Adam for example it may be relevant to remove your broken hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your car as clean as it can.
How to change the wheel cover of my Opel Adam?
Now let’s go forward to the part that you’re most likely most enthusiastic about, how to change your Opel Adam’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take off the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.
How do I take off the hubcaps of my Opel Adam?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Opel Adam. This is one of the most basic maintenance actions, nevertheless a lot of persons 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 just have to pry the wheel cover with a flat screwdriver e.g. on the wheel cover to remove it from the rim of your Opel Adam. Once unclipped you should be capable to remove it by pulling it to you. It is just fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Duplicate the procedure on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Install hubcaps on my Opel Adam
Last step of our tutorial, we move on to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be simpler. You simply 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 Opel Adamand put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to carry out the same operation on each of your wheels to complete the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Opel Adam and put new ones on.
If you wish more guides on the Opel Adam, go to our Opel Adam category.
