Redditch - not spotted, favour needed instead!

[thomas.oliver]

Need to borrow locking wheel nut, as for some reason mine doesn't fit, and so my car is stranded (has been for 2 days now) in a industrial estate due to a b*****d flat tire!

Wouldn't mind, but when I went to try again about 9pm last night there was 4/5 pikeys with vans

 

[DrR]

Lol you know they're not all the same?

 

[iOllieSM]

^ what he said. You'll need to go to renault to get a new one ordered in. No idea how long that process takes though. Just drive home slowly on the flat? I'd rather it be home then in an industrial estate

 

[DB.]

Fred got my locking wheel nuts off without the adaptor!

 

[DrR]

You can buy tools to take them off.

 

[Dan@M.A.D]

Any garage should have them off in no time.

Blow the tyre up and head to a tyre place.

 

[thomas.oliver]

Got a hole that I can fit my finger into (giggidy) on the sidewall, won't hold any air at all.
Gunna risk the drive and then use the spare wheel if I knacker the rim.

 

[DrR]

Just go to halfords or simula and get a "locking wheel not remover"

 

[thomas.oliver]

Just go to halfords or simula and get a "locking wheel not remover"

Thought they wouldn't work, seeing as the outside of the locking nut 'spins' (excuse my poor technical knowledge)

Has anyone used these before?

 

[DB.]

Does seem to render locking wheel nuts fairly useless.

 

[thomas.oliver]

Is it a case of hammering the outer sleeve from the nut, and using the halfords remover?

 

[DrR]

I don't use them cos they're such a pain the arse.

 

[sbridgey]

Is it a case of hammering the outer sleeve from the nut, and using the halfords remover?

You got another 172? what happened to the yellow pug?