Whether our motor vehicle is classic or new, we tend to appreciate to keep it in good conditions, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will help you to sell it more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s simply because you wish to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are damaged, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this post, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Opel Insignia. To do 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 car, then the fitting of the new ones.

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How to select the hubcaps of my Opel Insignia?

It is essential to know that the wheel covers of your car are totally decorative, they have no impact on the braking capacity, the traction, the speed of your motor vehicle. It will therefore 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 at the rear of them. However, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your Opel Insignia, they will protect them more or less well. Bear in mind 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 choose the right size, you will have this data on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The other important things to take in consideration will depend on your tastes , the goal, if you want to resell your Opel Insignia for example it may be real useful to remove your damaged hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as clean as it can be.

How to change the wheel cover of my Opel Insignia?

Now let’s move on to the section that you’re probably most interested in, how to change your Opel Insignia’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 Opel Insignia?

Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Opel Insignia. This is one of the most basic 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 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 Opel Insignia. Once done you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it towards you. It is simply fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Duplicate the operation on the other wheels to remove all the hubcaps from your car.

Fit hubcaps on my Opel Insignia

Last step of our tutorial, we go to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less difficult. 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 Opel Insigniaand put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to execute the same operation on each of your wheels to finish the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Opel Insignia and put new ones on.

If you have any further questions about the Opel Insignia, do not hesitate to consult our Opel Insignia category.