Worth clearing up first: some cars use locking wheel nuts and some use locking wheel bolts. Nuts thread onto a stud that stays in the hub. Bolts pass through the wheel and thread into the hub itself, which is common on a lot of European cars. They need different tooling and they behave differently when they seize, so it helps if you can tell us which you have when you ring.
If you cannot, do not worry, the van carries for both. Either way the principle is the same. A hardened extraction socket grips the outside of the fastener and turns it out, the alloy face is shielded during the work, and what comes out gets replaced with a plain item or a fresh locking set with working keys. Everything goes back torqued to the manufacturer's figure. Then the tyre work carries on in the same visit, wherever the car is parked around Ashford.
Locking nuts exist to stop somebody stealing the wheels, and mostly they do. The problem is that the same design stops you as well, on a wet evening, with a flat, when the key has been missing for a year and you never had a reason to notice. That is not a reason to go without them; it is a reason to have them in a state where the key works. We extract seized, rusted and rounded nuts where the car stands in Ashford and fit standard or replacement nuts afterwards, so the security still exists but the car is not holding you hostage. Day and night.
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Airport-edge towns collect a lot of cars that have passed through several owners and several fast-fit bays, and the locking fastener is usually the thing nobody handed over. Discovering that with a flat tyre on the way to a flight is the worst possible timing. We bring tooling for nuts and bolts alike, deal with it at your address in Felthamhill or wherever the car sits, and leave you with fasteners you can actually undo.
A European car in Littleton used bolts rather than nuts. The right extraction tooling was aboard and the wheel came off without drama.
Years of grit and salt had locked a nut solid in Ashford Common. It was worked out carefully and replaced with a fresh one.
A car near Sunbury Common had arrived from a previous owner with no key. All four were removed and a standard set fitted.
If you can see a threaded stud when a wheel is off, they are nuts. If the fastener passes through the wheel with nothing behind it, they are bolts. If unsure, tell us the make and model.
Yes. Extraction sockets for both locking nuts and locking bolts travel on the van, so the answer does not change what we can do for you.
It should not be. The tool works on the head of the fastener rather than the thread, and steady leverage is what protects everything behind it.
A plain nut or bolt matching the rest, or a new locking set with keys. Both are torqued to the correct figure rather than run up with an air gun.
Yes, as long as the car is parked safely and can be chocked. Well clear of the A30 or A308 is essential before any of it starts.
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