Whether our motor vehicle is old or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will help you to sell it more quickly and higher priced. Whether it’s because you want to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are cracked, replacing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. On this page, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Opel Mokka X. To do this, first of all, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, after that, how to change them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the installation of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Opel Mokka X?
It is crucial to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are simply cosmetic, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. It will subsequently be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only interest you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden in back of them. Even so, depending on the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Opel Mokka X, 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 choose the right specifications, 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 desire to resell your Opel Mokka X for example it may be necessary 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 Mokka X?
Now let’s go forward to the section that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Opel Mokka X’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 Mokka X?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Opel Mokka X. This is one of the simplest maintenance procedures, even so 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 reality, hubcaps are only 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 Mokka X. Once done you should be able to remove it by pulling it to you. It is just fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Redo the process on the other wheels to remove all the hubcaps from your car.
Fit hubcaps on my Opel Mokka X
Last step of our tutorial, we go to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be much easier. You only 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 Mokka Xand put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. To finish, you just have to do the same action on each of your wheels to complete the job.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Opel Mokka X and put new ones on.
If you wish more tutorials on the Opel Mokka X, go to our Opel Mokka X category.
