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 help you to sell it more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s because you want to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are damaged, replacing hubcaps is not a very complex action. On this page, we will learn you how to remove an hubcap on my Peugeot 2008. To get this done, first, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, afterward, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your car, then the mounting of the new ones.
How to choose the hubcaps of my Peugeot 2008?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are purely cosmetic, they have no influence on the braking capacity, the traction, the speed of your car. It will as a result be up to you to purchase 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. Nevertheless, depending on the quality of the wheel cover of your Peugeot 2008, they will protect them more or less well. Remember that hubcaps only cost between 20 and 60 euros most significant to choose them will be to have a look at the size of your rims to select the right size, you will have this data on your tires (example: 14 inches, 15 inches, 16 inches). The rest will depend on your tastes, the purpose, if you need to resell your Peugeot 2008 for example it may be real useful to take off your broken hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as attractive as it can.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Peugeot 2008?
Now let’s go to to the part that you’re most likely most enthusiastic about, how to change your Peugeot 2008’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 Peugeot 2008?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Peugeot 2008. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, even so 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 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 Peugeot 2008. Once done you should have the ability to remove it by pulling it towards 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 car.
Install hubcaps on my Peugeot 2008
Last step of our tutorial, we move on to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less complicated. 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 Peugeot 2008and put tiny punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to perform the same operation on each of your wheels to conclude the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Peugeot 2008 and put new ones on.
If you need more guides on the Peugeot 2008, go to our Peugeot 2008 category.
