Whether our motor vehicle is classic or new, we tend to appreciate to keep it in good conditions, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will help you to resell it quickly and higher priced. Whether it’s simply because you need to sell your motor vehicle, or because your hubcaps are damaged, replacing hubcaps is not a very complicated action. On this page, we will explain how to remove an hubcap on my Renault Captur. 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 automobile, then the mounting of the new ones.
How to pick the hubcaps of my Renault Captur?
It is important to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are only decorative, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the grip, the acceleration of your motor vehicle. It will therefore be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the more. The only interest you can give them is to take care of your metal rims that are hidden backside them. Nevertheless, dependant upon the level of quality of the wheel cover of your Renault Captur, they will protect them more or less well. Remember that hubcaps are worth between 20 and 60 euros most important 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 want to resell your Renault Captur for example it may be necessary to take off your damaged hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your automobile as attractive as it can be.
How to change the wheel cover of my Renault Captur?
Now let’s move on to the section that you’re most likely most enthusiastic about, how to change your Renault Captur’s hubcaps. First we will see how to take off the wheel covers from a vehicle, then how to install the new ones.
How do I take off the hubcaps of my Renault Captur?
Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Renault Captur. This is one of the most basic maintenance procedures, nevertheless 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 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 Renault Captur. Once unclipped you should be able to remove it by pulling it to you. It is simply fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Repeat the process on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your automobile.
Fit hubcaps on my Renault Captur
Last step of our article, we move on to the stage of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be easier. You simply have to locate the inflation nozzle of your wheel, align it with the notch on your hubcap, present the hubcap in front of the rim of your Renault Capturand put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to perform the same procedure on each of your wheels to finish the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Renault Captur and put new ones on.
If you wish more tutorials on the Renault Captur, go to our Renault Captur category.
