Help! Locking Wheel Nuts!

[Mikey16vClio]

How can i get them off if ive lost the key?

PS: No silly boy comments, thanx.

 

[BenR]

um, what type of lockin wheel nuts?

easiest to go buy the same set if you can, if not there is a locking wheel nit extractor available, ill have to look. If not, drill and struc extractor, time consuming and messy....poo

 

[Mikey16vClio]

Dont know the make or nothing mate. Came with car.

Will a garage sort this out for me? Whats the damage though (£)?

Cheers.

 

[BenR]

dont ask me! ask the garage!

whats the price of a green peice of string?

 

[Mikey16vClio]

Around 5pence per metre mate i think.

 

[BenR]

sheesh, youhad to go and ruin a old addage didnt you!

 

[grey16v]

i managed to hammer/wedge a socket on mine to get them off!

 

[BlackClio16v]

goto a local hardware store you can pick up a thing that threads itself onto the bolt and then you can take the bolt off. It absolutelty nacks the bolt but it gets it off. Dunno what the thing is called but try a local garage or car parts place...

 

[DTWD]

I went to an indipendant tyre/wheel/exhaust specialist to get my wheels (and locking nuts) and they told me they could get any anything off. No-matter what kind of nut it was they had something that could undo it. Pop along to a place like this and they should be able to help you. Once they are off ask them to put some new ones on. A good set (of 4) should set you back £25. So its not to bad really.



Paul

ps Dont go to places like Kwik f**k (fit)

 

[K3NNY]

mick this happened to me mate buy some cheap sockets smaller than the locking nut and hammer one on the nut with any look this will grip and the nut should come out easily. Will definately need new bolts though

 

[zedx19]

A garage will break them off for you, my mum bought a car with locking wheel nuts but the garage didnt give her the key, when she took it back for a service they said, wheres the key? She said, you didnt give me one, well we cant get the wheels off, basically argued when it was there fault, they ended up breaking them off and fitting a nice new set for free, dickheads

 

[Mikey16vClio]

Ahhhhh. Nothing to worry about then, ill buy them VERY cheap sockets from Argos that lose thier teeth easierly and hammer it over the nut, then wrench it off.

Sweat, but if i can do it, then so can some robbing reprebates.

 

[Mikey16vClio]

Found it.

Worth while thread though i think.

 

[BenR]

want somewhere easy like the asktray was it! lol

 

[Mikey16vClio]

No, in a box in our cluttered hall for some reason.