Whether our motor vehicle is classic or brand-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 need to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are cracked, replacing hubcaps is not a very complex action. In this article, we will learn you how to remove an hubcap on my Peugeot 3008. To achieve this, first of all, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to replace them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your vehicle, then the installation of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Peugeot 3008?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are simply cosmetic, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, the speed of your motor vehicle. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only importance you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden in back of them. Nevertheless, dependant upon the quality of the wheel cover of your Peugeot 3008, they will protect them more or less well. Keep in mind 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 other important things to take in consideration will depend on your tastes , the purpose, if you want to resell your Peugeot 3008 for example it may be necessary to take out your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your vehicle as tidy as it can be.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Peugeot 3008?
Now let’s go forward to the section that you’re most likely most excited about, how to change your Peugeot 3008’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 3008?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Peugeot 3008. This is one of the most basic 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 Peugeot 3008. Once done 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. Redo the procedure on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Install hubcaps on my Peugeot 3008
Last step of our article, we go to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be 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 Peugeot 3008and put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to execute the same procedure on each of your wheels to finish the job.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Peugeot 3008 and put new ones on.
If you want more tutorials on the Peugeot 3008, go to our Peugeot 3008 category.
