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Installing your hubcaps is the most important thing to know if you want to keep them on! Almost 100% of missing hub caps are due to improper installation and whether the fault lies with you or your mechanic, we can teach you the right way to install your wheel covers and center caps! After watching our video, you won’t have to keep replacing your missing hub caps and spending unnecessary money.
With this particular task, there are some tools required, one you might already have and one that our company sells to make hubcap installation simple for everyone. Depending on the type of center caps you have on your vehicle, of which there are three, you will need a lug wrench to tighten the bolts of your hubcap or you can use our hubcap tool to get the job done correctly. As shown in the video, there are three types of hubcaps: bolt on, pop on and screw on. The simplest hubcap to install is the pop on and will only require our special hubcap tool or a soft rubber mallet to tap the center caps into place. With the other two options, a lug wrench is needed to tighten the lug nuts on your wheel cover so that there is no danger of them falling off while you’re driving.
Although this is a very easy process that only takes a few minutes to learn to do properly, we still want to encourage everyone out there watching to be careful and follow all of our instructions completely to avoid any kind of injury. It is also important to remember that it is up to you to make sure that no one uses an impact wrench to install your hub caps, ever. The reason for this is that using that tool when installing hubcaps can strip the threading on the lug nuts and will cause you to lose it the very next time you hit a little bump in the road. As always, if anyone has any questions, our staff is here to help you, just call our toll free number provided at the bottom. Thank you again!
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