Whether our car is classic or new, we tend to appreciate that it is in good condition, whether externally or internally, taking care of its car will allow you to sell it quickly and higher priced. Whether it’s because you wish to sell your car, 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 Skoda Kamiq. To achieve this, first of all, we will help you to choose the wheel hubcap for your car, then, how to change them, with the removal of the wheel hubcap from your automobile, then the mounting of the new ones.

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How to choose the hubcaps of my Skoda Kamiq?

It is essential to know that the wheel covers of your vehicle are only decorative, they have no effect on the braking capacity, the traction, the acceleration of your car. It will subsequently be up to you to purchase the hubcaps that you like the most. The only interest you can give them is to preserve your metal rims that are hidden in back of them. Nevertheless, according to the quality of the wheel cover of your Skoda Kamiq, they will protect them more or less well. Bear in mind that hubcaps cost between 20 and 60 euros most important 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 rest will depend on your tastes, the objective, if you desire to resell your Skoda Kamiq for example it may be relevant to take off your broken hubcaps and replace them with the original hubcaps to make your car as attractive as it can.

How to change the wheel cover of my Skoda Kamiq?

Now let’s go to to the part that you’re most likely most interested in, how to change your Skoda Kamiq’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 Skoda Kamiq?

Let’s go, we’ll show you how to remove the hubcaps from your Skoda Kamiq. This is one of the easiest maintenance procedures, but the truth is 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 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 Skoda Kamiq. Once done you should be able to remove it by pulling it towards you. It is simply fixed by small plastic lugs that have just lodged in the rim flange. Repeat the procedure on the other wheels to take off all the hubcaps from your automobile.

Install hubcaps on my Skoda Kamiq

Last step of our article, we go to the phase of reassembling your hubcaps. Nothing could be less difficult. You only 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 Skoda Kamiqand put little punches or mallets all over the hubcap to clip it on the rim. At last, you just have to carry out the same procedure on each of your wheels to finish the work.
You are now able to remove a hubcap on your Skoda Kamiq and put new ones on.

If you want more tutorials on the Skoda Kamiq, go to our Skoda Kamiq category.