How to Replace a Hubcap and Wheel Cover on Your Car

The video above shows how to remove and replace a hub cap or a wheel cover on your car. Sometimes hubcaps can break and fly off, other times they become loose due to severe potholes or a brush with the curb. Regardless of why it is missing, hubcaps are pretty easy to replace. Be sure to align the valve stem hole with the valve stem and then press the hubcap so that it clicks into the wheel.
Hubcaps are the cover that just covers the lug nuts on your wheel whereas a wheel cover covers the entire wheel and often the lug nuts are visible. If you have a wheel cover, then you likely need to remove the lug nuts first to change the wheel cover whereas typically snap into place and stay in place with tension wires around the rim of the cap.

Other videos you might find helpful

Mityvac Fluid Extractor Review

How to use the Mityvac fluid pump to change the oil without getting dirty.

How to Install Speakers from Crutchfield

How to replace factory speakers with aftermarket speakers purchased from Crutchfield

Don’t Touch Your Bulbs

Hotspots are caused by touching the glass globe of the bulb

How to Replace Instrumentation and HVAC Lighting

Changing the little bulbs behind your stereo and heating a/c controls

Author

Hans Angermeier has produced over 100,000 videos showing drivers how to fix things on their cars. He has broad expertise on basic repair procedures covering the majority of cars on the road.