Alloy wheel centre cap removal?

[eein]

Might be a simple question... how is the centre cap on the standard iQ allow wheels removed? Does it just prise off, or do I need to take the wheel off and do something from the rear? I'm assuming the former, but didnt want to poke in at it until I was sure in case of damaging it.

I'm looking to take them off to paint anthracite to match the colour of our refurbished wheels.

 

[Bper]

Hi Iain,

Have a look at a couple of these videos they should help.

https://youtu.be/ixeRbOha9ZQ?si=SJ4VL01iIdocgC-q

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/1GsdBHurdvA?si=blha9q7SwZ4v7z9_

[Dutchrav]

You can push it out from the inside. 

[Cyker]

It is possible to lever it out with a slender enough trim tool but it's a bazillion times easier just to pop it out from the inside.

Just be very careful, as it's held in by 4 plastic tangs being pressed against the wheel by a metal spring coil thingy and it's really easy to snap the tangs off (I guess they get brittle over the years).

I slowly lost all 4 of the ones from my old Mk1 D4D and ended up getting a mate to 3D print some inserts to fill the holes after PartsKing told me how much the genuine replacement ones were   

[glimp]

I removed mine from the 3 spare wheels I bought. They pushed off quite easily from the inside of the wheel, with no broken plastic lugs.