Whether our car is classic or new, we tend to appreciate to keep it in good conditions, whether externally or internally, caring for its car will make it possible for you to sell it more easily and more expensive. Whether it’s mainly because you wish to sell your car, or because your hubcaps are cracked, changing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. In this article, we will describe how to remove an hubcap on my Peugeot 407. To do 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 407?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your car are simply decorative, they have no impact on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your car. 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 protect your metal rims that are hidden behind them. Nevertheless, dependant upon the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Peugeot 407, they will protect them more or less well. Remember that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most important to choose them will be to have a look at the size of your rims to choose the right size, you will have this info 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 need to resell your Peugeot 407 for example it may be real useful to take out your damaged hubcaps and substitute them with the original hubcaps to make your car as attractive as it can.
How to replace the wheel cover of my Peugeot 407?
Now let’s go forward to the part that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Peugeot 407’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 Peugeot 407?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Peugeot 407. This is one of the simplest maintenance procedures, however 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 fact, hubcaps are just 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 407. Once done you should be able to remove it by pulling it to you. It is only fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Duplicate the procedure on the other wheels to remove all the hubcaps from your vehicle.
Install hubcaps on my Peugeot 407
Last step of our tutorial, we go to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less difficult. You only have to situate 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 407and put little punches or mallets all around the hubcap to clip it on the rim. Finally, you just have to accomplish the same procedure on each of your wheels to conclude the task.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Peugeot 407 and put new ones on.
If you need more guides on the Peugeot 407, go to our Peugeot 407 category.
